Our Websites Bring Results
Your Customer is One Click Away
You're probably just one click away from your next customer, not 50, 100, or a thousand miles away. We want your customer's next click to be for you.
Why Choose Ez Information Management?
I've been building websites since the mid-1990s. I build sites with the emerging standards of HTML, XHTML, and the robust content management system called Joomla. I limit my work to a few customers where I can provide personal service.
Four Qualities We Strive For
Promoting
Empowering
Inviting
Supporting
Consultation Services
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We Believe In Detailed Interviews
Filling out this RFP form will accomplish two things:
- It will help you think through what you need, and
- It will give us a big headstart with the detailed interviews that may follow.
How We Design Your Website
- Requirements
- Budgeting
- Identity
- Features
- Tools and Services
- Content
- Operations
- Maintenance
- Fixes
- Example of My Work Portfolio
- Why do you want a website?
- What will your website visitors do?
- Who will use your website? Where are they? How many people do you expect?
- What information will you put on the website?
Your Customer is One Click Away
- Startup Budget: How much will you spend to build and launch the website?
- Website Hosting: What is your budget? Small sites are cheap, but large sites with many visitors cost more.
- Maintenance Budget: How much will you spend on maintenance? How often will you update the site?
- Advertising: Will you pay to promote your website, like with Google Ads or Facebook ads?
Your Customer is One Click Away
- Trademarks: Do you have any trademarks to use on your website? Could another site with a similar name cause problems?
- Website Name: Do you have a domain name? If yes, does it work well? If not, what should your website name tell search engines and users?
- Logo: Do you have a logo? Do you want one? Do you know a graphics artist?
- Competitors: What other websites matter for your success? Who are your competitors and what are their website addresses?
Your Customer is One Click Away
- Look and Feel: Have you seen features on other websites you want to use? If yes, where?
- Users: Who will use your site and why? In one short sentence, how would you describe your products or services to a customer?
- Example Websites: Which websites could serve as models for yours? List their web addresses.
- Partner Websites: What sites will link to yours? Who will you refer customers to? What related services are there?
Your Customer is One Click Away
- Calendar
- User Comments
- Shopping Cart
- Blogging Tool
- Photo Gallery
- Real Estate Tools
- Appointment Scheduling
- Social Media Integration (e.g., Facebook)
- Joomla offers hundreds of add-on tools.
Your Customer is One Click Away
- Information: What information do your website users need? How do you know?
- Services: What will your website do for users? Will you need special programming, or can you use ready-made products?
- Content Development: How will you create information for your website? How will you use information from your users?
- Site Promotion. Will you use pay per click advertising? Are you planning to use outside companies to submit your site to search engines? Plan to promote your website
- Timeline. How quickly do you want your website to be operational?
- Contact. Who will be the main contact in your business for the website?
Chances are that the moment you released your state-of-the-art website that you realized that it was already out of date.
- Someone released a new component or module that did something better than what you included in your design.
- Something in your product line changed.
- You changed some of your services.
- Your competition made a change, and you must react.
- (Heaven forbid) You found an error.
- (More likely) You found something you need to improve.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Simple mistakes. Edit the article or data in the tool you're using. That's easy enough, but do it before you lose credibility.
- Updates. With Joomla, most of the system updates are as easy as a click of the button. But, you (or your administrator) must click the button to upgrade.
- Tool Replacement. If you need to change out a module, it's not difficult to uninstall an old one and install a new one, but if you're dealing with a tool that manages its own set of data, you'll need to account for rebuilding your data.
Below are three websites that demonstrate different layout and formatting options.
Hickman County Public Library.
This is a single page design made especially for mobile phones where people expect to scroll rather than jump from page to page.
I trained the library staff to operate the website and keep it current. I rarely have to do anything because they can do it all.
Farm Service Solutions
This business sells a large number of different types of farm equipment for cattle handline and tractor implements. While online sales are not practical for equipment this large and expensive, the website offers multiple photos of every item along with custom fields to describe the manufacturer, price, date of acquisition, and more. The website owner is able to constantly keep his inventory online and uploaded with high quality photos.
Shown below is a screenshot of their inventory of grass and hay equipment inventory. It is optimized for mobile phone users with sophisticated search and easy scrolling.
Dust-n-Shavings
A skilled, local wood carver displays his portfolio of wood carvings. It features realistic carvings of people he has known as well as a few he has imagined--some whimsical. It also displays bowls, spoons, and various relief carvings.
We Use Joomla. The Best Content Management System
We choose Joomla because it is a modern content management system, similar to the popular WordPress and powerful Drupal systems. Joomla offers more built-in features, making it more flexible than WordPress and easier to use than Drupal. With Joomla, you have full control over publishing, removal, authorization, and archiving of files for security. If you can use a word processor, you can manage your website on Joomla, or we can handle it for you. This robust system can support any website design need. We believe Joomla is the ideal web development platform for most businesses and organizations. It has a strong community of developers worldwide that we are proud to be affiliated with.
