why choose a custom web site?

Even though template site providers have a choice of styles from which to choose, you often lose the ability to create a web site that:

• Is tailored to YOUR business needs
• Reinforces your corporate image
• Provides total business integration
• Is easy to update
• Allows as much or as little involvement as you want

Even worse, your competitor can have a site that looks just like yours! (We've seen it happen.)

custom web sites by Set Now Solutions

Greater Mercer County Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber web site is an example of an active, highly visited (100,000+ hits per month) dynamic site, that combines e-commerce, multimedia, dynamic data and event registration, and community-oriented features like online bulletin board, member event and job postings. The site has many easy-to-navigate subsections, and data is updated on a daily basis by Chamber staff via a custom administrative interface.

American Red Cross of Central New Jersey
This web site changes on a daily basis with the American Red Cross editing stories and homeland security advisories. The site also has secure e-commerce for online donations and course registration with "seat counting" (that closes the course when it fills up to capacity). There is also a site-within-a-site located under the Disaster Preparedness Network, which offers specific guests different content for different needs. The site also has an employee only area and data in this area and the public web site is updated on a daily basis by Red Cross staff via a custom administrative interface.

Amper, Politziner & Mattia
With offices throughout the New Jersey / New York area, Amper is one of the largest independent CPA firms in the region. They are the 3rd largest accounting firm in New Jersey, the 11th leading public company auditor in the country according to ‘Who Audits America,' and the #1 regional firm in the entire Northeast. This site won the gold award in the New Jersey CAMA "ASTRA Awards" for Best Web Site under $15,000. The site is updated on a daily basis by Amper's staff using a combination of a web site editing software and a custom administrative interface to manage information such as the staff directory, online event registration and job postings. Their new site, due to launch in the summer of 2006, is being designed by Set Now and will contain 10 custom videos which are being videotaped and made web ready by our staff.

NJ SHARES
New Jersey Statewide Heating Assistance and Referral for Energy Services (New Jersey SHARES) is a non-profit corporation organized to provide assistance to individuals and families living in New Jersey who are in need of temporary help in paying their energy bills. Set Now created an online agency intake system in which agencies enter client information and submit grant requests to NJ SHARES. NJ SHARES then administers these grants through an administrative area.

Model Rectifier Corporation
MRC is a manufacturer and reseller of model trains, radio-controlled vehicles, planes, helicopters and accessories. The site features comprehensive product information on over 2000 items, a secure e-commerce shopping cart system with administrative interface to add and modify product information, process orders, and the ability to easily edit web site content. Their new site, due to launch in the summer of 2006, is being designed by Set Now and will enable their off-line and online ordering system to work together to provide customers and dealers with real-time order tracking and history.

Kistler Tiffany Benefits
Established in 1972, Kistler Tiffany Benefits is one of the region’s largest group insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting companies. The web site features the ability for site visitors to create a custom home page so they can quickly and easily find just the information they need. There is an administrative area for KTB staff to manage content on the web site, including document management, carrier information, job postings, seminars/events, and the sending of their HTML-based email newsletter. Set Now developed the Flash piece on the home page which is not a 'splash screen' but part of the web site and once a user has viewed the video it does not play again unless the user requests it.

CorpNote
E-cards, online invitations and surveys have never been easier. This system was specifically designed for business and is advertising-free. This online service - conceptualized, developed and marketed by Set Now Solutions - highlights our extensive database and image processing capabilities, as well as our orientation toward business-to-business based marketing and sales opportunities using Internet technology. The site features a streaming video demo, secure e-commerce credit card transactions, and shows how the web can be used to automate day-to-day communications in a business setting.

The Rose Group
This restaurant management company supports 2 restaurant concepts: Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar and Roy Rogers. There web site contains enticing online menus and directions to 40+ Applebees franchises they manage throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They have an extensive company extranet that enables them to communicate with their restaurants and manage product recalls, online employee training, their company directory, events, their 'Dining to Donate' program and more.

Direct Media, Inc.
Independent video producer. This site features a memorable visual presence, with a page layout that accommodates any user’s screen size. The site is designed to be highly visible to the search engines, easy to edit, and features examples of streaming video for different bandwidths in the "Client Solutions" section.

To learn more about how we can customize a web presence for your individual needs, call us at 609-406-1665, fill out our online request form, or email us at info@setnow.com.