We take the time to get to know your business, including your goals, objectives, strengths and weaknesses, so that we can formulate an effective strategy for you.
We can fix your existing problems in your online or offline systems, or create dynamic solutions for your business.
We develop custom e-commerce solutions and online catalogs for just about any type of business.
Let us help you safely and securely sell your products online.
We offer professional online video and multimedia solutions. We can post your videos in all major formats, including: Windows Media, Apple Quicktime, and Adobe Flash.
Shortgrass Web Development offers secure, reliable and affordable hosting for only $16/month with no long-term commitments.
Shortgrass Web Development can secure your website's domain name for you. We charge a flat fee of $25 per year. Discounts available if we develop and host your website.
Your business or organization rarely stops changing and your website should be no different. Whether you are moving to a new office, updating your records, hiring new employees, taking inventory, or scheduling events, your website must reflect the dynamics of your business. To remain competitive, you need a website that goes beyond the standard brochure site: "who we are, what we offer, here's our logo".
Using the latest Website technology, Shortgrass Web can quickly and effectively design and develop your website or implement changes to the site you already have. We construct websites capable of processing credit cards, handling online catalogs, managing inventory, leading users through complicated information so that they understand your concept or business, and much more. These applications are not only a valuable for your customers, but also for you and your business as well.
Shortgrass Web Development has a team of qualified professionals who offer our clients excellent results with Montana-style friendly service and quality support. We take the time to get to know your business, including your goals, objectives, strengths and weaknesses, so that we can formulate an effective strategy for you. We offer professional website design and development for companies nationwide.
As we work with you to design and develop your website, we:
Analyze your needs by consulting with you and your staff
Conceptualize your website - custom programming, database, e-Commerce, etc
Register your domain name
Architect, refine, and optimize the design and functionality of your site
Once your website is ready to go, we set it up with:
Affordable and reliable website hosting (99.9% uptime)
Domain-based email accounts (you@yoursite.com) with our hosting package
Optimization for the most widely used browsers - Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Mac Safari, etc.
Search Engine Optimization and registration
We would like the opportunity to discuss your website project. Shortgrass Web Development can meet your needs with affordable, professional work and quality performance. We take the time to get to know your business, including your goals, objectives, strengths and weaknesses, so that we can formulate an effective strategy for you. When we consult with you on your project, we give you all the information you need to make an informed decision: No hidden costs, no false-promises, and no pressuring sales talk. Because we firmly believe that honesty and respect are the best business practices, Shortgrass Web Development has earned its positive reputation as a highly credible website design and development company that you can trust.
Why should you have a Web Application? Because they give you the ability to quickly and effectively manage the information and content of your website. Web Applications are just like any other programs on your computer; however, they exist on the internet, rather than reside on your local personal computer. It would be like accessing an online version of Microsoft Word or Excel from the internet, and you could add, organize, and delete information on the data your business or organization generates.
Web Applications have so many uses that it would be nearly impossible to list them all here. Some examples, however, include billing & invoicing systems, staff management, time cards, online reservation booking, customer tracking, project management, online auctions, blog publishing, online training or shopping systems.
The most beneficial reason to have a web application is because you can access your data from any internet source: Home, office, hotel, coffee shop, etc. Since website applications are web-driven, there is no need to install management software on a computer. Instead, you simply navigate your web browser to the web address of your application (usually behind your website), and login to the system.
Even if all you want is a web site, a web application, which allows you to change the information in your website as often as you like, will give you two advantages:
More return visitors: Web sites with current and regularly changing information have the most return visitors. New or updated information attracts Web browsers to your site and enhances your business.
Keeping pace with the change that is inevitable in business: Prices change, inventory changes, dates and times change, and employees change. Change is one of the most brutal laws' of business, and if you don't change, you won't grow. The same applies to your website.
Shortgrass Web Development of Great Falls, Montana has years of experience developing custom web applications for our clients. We provide secure, flexible and cost-effective web applications that turn your vision into reality. We work with you during the process so that the web application meets the needs of your company or organization. Whether you need to integrate a custom inventory cataloging system, want online integration with QuickBooks, could use an online calendar, or need a custom shipping calculator, Shortgrass Web can develop the online solution that your business needs.
Internet e-Commerce involves allowing your website to accept digital transactions over an encrypted (secured) internet line. An e-Commerce site allows for the online browsing and purchasing of goods through Secure Credit Card Processing. However, e-Commerce is also very flexible, and also allows for customers to pay invoices and bills online, or purchase admission to your events.
Selling your product in the most time-efficient and cost-effective manner is what's going to help your business grow, out-perform, and out-last your competition. We just don't want to help you sell your products, we want to help you exceed in your business. In order for your business to succeed, it is vital to make it easy and secure for a customer to pay you. Accepting credit cards and electronic funds are the most effective solutions. Shortgrass Web Development can set up your very own merchant account to accept electronic payments, all at the lowest possible cost.
Shortgrass Web Development of Great Falls, Montana can set up your own merchant account to accept electronic payments, all at the lowest possible cost. We've been developing e-Commerce solutions for years. Our custom e-Commerce programming capabilities make Shortgrass Web the best choice for developing your online catalog, your online store, or your subscription/membership based web site. We can:
Develop a custom shopping cart system for your new or pre-existing website
Add an e-Commerce store or catalog to your existing website that will look fluid and natural
Set your site up with the highest level of security, enabling clients to purchase goods, pay invoices and bills online, or purchse admission to your events
Using our web-based site manager, Shortgrass Web Development offers the easiest, fastest, and least expensive way to control your e-Commerce Website. With our e-Commerce solution, you can be managing your very own online store in little time.
Identity theft is a growing danger, so our e-Commerce solution uses SSL encryption, the industry standard, in order to protect not only you, but also your customers from online theft.
Online Catalogs
We also offer a website catalog solution that features a rich set of online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations.
Our database-driven online catalogs offer everything you need in one coordinated package: secure online ordering, real-time credit card transaction processing, customer profile tracking, online security, intelligent user interfaces and sophisticated, smart navigation.
Each page is designed to feature product-specific components, including specifications, pictures, descriptions and ordering information. In addition, our unique system allows for easy maintenance and updating of the catalog by your non-technical staff as often as you wish. Our entire system is also web-based; there is no software to install so you can securely manage your online store anywhere an internet connection is present.
Some features of our catalog solution include:
Fast Internet performance
Easy to use interface
Professional, customizable appearance
Easily handles thousands of products
Searching by multiple search criteria (keyword and/or other variables)
Automated online order processing
Anonymous visitor tracking - no 'cookies'
Detailed Web site reports help you understand what your customers want
Online security with order encryption
Easily paired with e-Commerce Credit Card processing
With our quality hosting packages, your customers will be able to quickly and easily browse and buy through your e-Commerce website. Our experience makes us a smart choice to work with on your e-Commerce project. We can consult on-site or over telephone conference.
Websites tend to present information in a static state: all of the information is locked together and presented the same way every time it's accessed. These traditional websites are limited in how they present your message, market your product, or develop your company or organization's image. Users and customers are limited by what information they can obtain from your site by not being able to select individual parts, or regroup and compare the displayed information.
A database driven website presents information to not only your users, but also to yourself. Your website can become a tool that you, your clients, and the people you work with can use. With a database driven site, you can:
Find information, products, or services that are tailored to their specific search criteria.
Generate collections of information.
Change how the information is presented to them.
Instantly create, edit, save or delete information from anywhere in the world (when permitted)
Shortgrass Web Development of Great Falls, Montana has a professional staff of highly-trained and experienced database developers. Since PHP and MySQL are the world's best combination for creating
data-driven websites, most of the databases we develop employ these solutions. We also offer our database services on other technology platforms such as
ASP and MS SQL.
Flash multimedia, a very powerful and flexible medium, is currently the most widely accepted multimedia format on the web. Adding Flash can make your websites more attractive and interactive; however, it is often misused. Some Flash designers want to make your website an expensive piece of digital art, rather than develop an eye-catching, effective business tool. The results of poor Flash implimentation are often at a high cost to your company and results in less than optimal website performance for your customers and clients.
Our web developers and designers also realize that Flash media takes longer to load for traditional 56k modem users (still roughly 20% of US homes) than standard web-optimized graphics. The last thing we would want is your viewers to lose interest in your site because they are waiting for graphics to load, thereby postponing the content they want to access.
Because we understand the consequences of excessive Flash use in websites, we tend to be more conservative in its implementation. By combining this powerful format with innovative programming functionality and sound business logic, Shortgrass Web Development can create Flash content that compliments your site, not overwhelm it.
Every business and organization is unique, and we work hard to graphically convey that individuality in your website so that you stand apart from the competition. Your website design should instantly reveal the personality of your company or organization and so tempt clients to learn more about what you can offer them.
Website design is a delicate process: Knowing that boring site designs will be quickly ignored, and that websites with excessive design and lack of appropriate content will be avoided, our website designers work together to design a website that will grab a browser's attention and let them quickly and easily find the information they are searching for. We work hard to achieve an elegant and sophisticated design that does not overwhelm browsers with excessive or irrelevant imagery.
Using our own brand of creativity and style, we will design your website to meet the requirements of your business or organization. From the company's trademark colors, to their logos, to a unique layout design, the website we develop for your company will distinguish you from others on the internet.
Our website design process is as follows:
Step 1 - Based on the information we gather during our meetings, we present you with a few custom conceptual layouts for you to choose from.
Step 2 - With the layout chosen, we then further customize the design based on your additional feedback. This step usually involves organization, color schemes, site navigation, and photos. We then send the design back to you for a final review.
Step 3 - When you review and approve the third and final round of revisions (including finalizing the site's navigation), we then begin implementation and the actual development of your site. Revisions beyond this point are billable at our standard hourly rate.
Shortgrass Web Development of Great Falls, Montana also provides professional quality logo and identity design for emerging organizations and businesses, or for groups who want to update their image.
Our website designers can also develop and integrate Flash content into your site. However, we will also take
the time to make sure this is the right tool for you.
Many of our website clients want the ability to easily add, edit, update, and delete text, images, and pages on their website. A Content Management System (CMS) provides a way for them to easily achieve these needs.
A website content management system (CMS) is a website editor that is used to manage and control a large or small, dynamic collection of web material (text, documents, images, etc). With a CMS, the owner or manager of a website has complete control over the content of their web pages.
Shortgrass Web Development's CMS solution allows the CMS user to easily update web pages using a simple web browser interface. No website coding is required; the user needs only a working understanding of a word-processing application (i.e.: Microsoft Word, OpenOffice).
Shortgrass Web Development makes it easy and affordable to have complete control over the content of your site.
Click below for a few of the sites we have built with content management systems implimented:
Blogs and forums have become an increasingly popular part of small business's online marketing. The presence of a blog or forum can establish your expertise, draw website traffic from the major search engines, increase your search engine ranking, and deliver qualified leads to your website.
The largest drawback to a blog or forum is that many small businesses use generic templates, many of which are no different than their competitors', and by doing so don't extend their brand. Shortgrass Web Development can help you by designing a blog that will complement your website's current design, as well as other marketing collateral.
One important thing to understand before considering whether you should invest in a blog or a forum is the differences between the two. Forums are created for discussions within a group or community while Blogs are mainly designed for a single user input, with the possibility for other people to comment.
In other words, blogs are more like a simple homepage where other people may contribute with comments, but one person controls the initial content. A blog owner can delete any comment that he or she doesn't like, while in forums, there could be thousands of people posting topic messages and also adding comments. In consequence, forums often require ‘moderators’ or administrators whose job requires that they keep some control over the content being discussed or posted therein. Unless you have the human resources to adequately manage and moderate the discussions within a forum, consider implementing a blog.
With our online photo gallery, you can share with friends and family wedding photos, sports pictures, and even a vacation reel. If you are concerned about internet safety, your online photo gallery can be password protected, insuring that your images cannot viewed by strangers.
We can tailor our online photo gallery solution to either a new website design, or to your existing site. Administrative access to your gallery is password protected, ensuring that only you have control over its content and can organize photos easily, adding your own names and descriptions.
Click below for a few examples of our diverse website photo gallery solutions:
No longer an unknown quantity or merely a sidekick to television, the online video medium is fast becoming a formidable viewing factor. Thanks to viral marketing, a popular video page can be a great asset, a traffic magnet. There is no cost per action attached to viewing videos that could do a good job at marketing your brand. Integration of streaming video into a website can help explain processes or services and can show a product in use or motion.
With streaming videos, the images are stored in compressed form and are displayed through a special player, such as Flash, Windows Media Player or Quicktime. The viewer can watch the streaming video as it downloads over the internet in a continuous stream. Videos can also be posted behind passwords or a registration system for an e-commerce streaming media solution.
Shortgrass Web Development can help companies and organizations meet their streaming video needs. With Shortgrass Web Development, creating a professional, revenue-generating streaming video section on your web site has never been simpler. Shortgrass Web also provides a professional in-house video editing service for an hourly fee.
Click below to see a few examples of our Streaming Media work:
So you have your website, but where are you going to put it? Our server would be an excellent choice.
A web host, or server, is a powerful computer that has your site saved on it. It runs all day, every day and sends your website's information to anyone who wants to see it. The data is backed up on multiple hard drives, and has a backup power source incase of power outages.
Shortgrass Web Development offers a secure, reliable and affordable hosting to get your website up and keep it running. We host websites that include custom internet applications, e-Commerce, extensive databases, and online catalogs. We provide quality hosting for all of your website needs for only $16/month. Unlike other site hosting companies and web developers, our monthly hosting plan requires no long-term or yearly commitments to receive our advertised rates. There are no hidden fees or obligations. Our basic hosting package includes:
Daily Analysis of Your Site Traffic and Statistics, with graphs and charts and reports produced by Webalizer or Wusage. These statistics detail how much web traffic you have and where it's coming from, with detailed data breakdowns.
100 MB/month Disk Space to hold your website and database files. If you need more space, additional blocks of disk space may be purchased. Contact us for pricing.
5GB/month Bandwidth Use - Assuming each page is 30k, 5 gigs allows for over 150,000 page views each month, more than enough for most websites. Additional bandwidth may be purchased. Contact us for pricing.
SQL DatabaseStorage for all of our Clients' sites.
Up to 50 Domain-Based E-mail Accounts @yourdomain. Use your new email accounts with your favorite POP or IMAP e-mail client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Netscape Mail). You can also access your email from any internet browser with our convenient webmail feature. Additional email accounts may be purchased. Contact us for pricing.
Virus Protection, because your security is important to us. We have implemented e-mail virus detection for all our customers and virus signatures are updated nightly.
SPAM Protection for your email accounts has been included with your domain-based email accounts. We hate junk e-mail as much as you do. Using our Spam Control feature, we can customize the sensitivity of your spam filter and specify what happens to the junk emails when they are captured.
Automatic Backups of Your Website. In the event that your precious data is lost, we can restore an archive for you. Your website and database data are archived automatically on a nightly schedule and are kept for 14 days.
SSL Secure Certificates are available at no charge for websites and online web applications that require secure transactions and data encryption.
99.9% Uptime on all servers, which equals less than 9 hours of accumulated downtime during a year.
Technical Support directly from our developers and programmers during business hours.
Not sure how to register a domain? Not even sure what a domain name is? Need someone to renew your domain annually for you? Shortgrass can help.
We can secure your website's domain name by registering it. First, we first ask you to suggest domain names that you would like. We then search to see if any of them are available, and respond with our results. You then let us know which of the available domain names you prefer and we register it for you. We make domain purchases simple for our customers. We charge a yearly fee of $25.00, or 5 years for the sum of $100. Please note that domain purchases cannot be refunded.
A domain name is the name or address that identifies your website on the internet. For example, the http://www.shortgrass.com domain name identifies the Shortgrass Web Development identity on the World Wide Web.
Why do you need a domain name? Because domain names were developed to help people remember websites through words, rather than numbers. To access the Shortgrass Web Development site without a domain name, you would have to instead memorize the following address: http://204.11.246.99. Not quite as snappy on a business card, is it? It's also more difficult for the human mind to remember a string of numbers they see at a glance.
Domain names are rarely ever 'sold' to individuals, but are instead 'registered' for annual fees. When you register a domain name, you have the rights to it as long as you pay the yearly fee. If you let your domain name expire, someone else can purchase and use it. The advantage of choosing Shortgrass Web Development to register a domain for you is that all you have to do is give us a domain name you would like. That's all. We register the domain for you, and we keep watch over it so that it isn't stolen or accidentally expires. When the yearly registration comes, we will notify you or your business and take your course of action. Shortgrass Web makes Domain Registration one less hassle.
How can we offer all of these technology services from Great Falls,
Montana? It's simple. We have great people who enjoy the great lifestyle
here.
Shortgrass Web Development is a team of qualified professionals who offer our clients quality work with friendly, Montana-style service and support. We are a highly reputable website design and development company that you can trust. Shortgrass Web Development offers professional website design and development for individuals, organizations, and companies nationwide.
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We offer professional online video and multimedia solutions. We can post your videos in all major formats, including: Windows Media, Apple Quicktime, and Adobe Flash.
