Bethany Baptist Church revamp completed with new look and feel, interactive features, and site search

Bethany Baptist Church in Peoria, IL has grown and changed dramatically since BitSculptor originally built their web site in 1999. Attendance has nearly doubled, a church has been planted (with more in the works), staff members have been brought on, and ministries have evolved.

Their new web site design features a completely revamped look and feel based around their new logo. Extensive interactive features and content management tools are also plugged into the site, allowing members to create custom home pages and secure online directory listings. Site administration tools let approved staff and volunteers update the regularly-changing site content such as front page features, calendar events, ministries, photo albums, document archives, sermon audio and other resources, missions database, and more.

The site also includes our innovative full-text search tool, which gives visitors the ability to search the entire site for any phrase and return relevant search results.

Check it out online at: www.bethanycentral.org

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As the largest real estate brokerage in Lake County, CPS Country Air Properties is home to a large number of agents spread over 6 different offices. These agents need a centralized point of access to a wide variety of specialized online services including marketing, title, and parcel map tools. BitSculptor will be developing a secure agent portal for use by CPS Country Air Properties agents.

BitSculpor will also be revamping the overall CPS Country Air Properties web site to improve the look and feel and usability of the site as a whole.

ReunionMakers.com backend development completed.

Designed by Gayton Design, the new ReunionMakers.com site has a powerful backend developed by BitSculptor. The site is also hosted by BitSculptor.

The site features a powerfully simple reunion search interface, allowing visitors to search for their reunion in order to register for the reunion online. The search is "fuzzy," allowing users to input only part of a school's name, school abbreviations, etc. Once a reunion is found, users may register immediately through the site, paying for their reunion tickets in real-time using a credit card number.

Of course, any BitSculptor-developed site would not be complete without a powerful, password-secured online administration area. In this case, the ReunionMakers.com administration area allows Reunion Makers staff to add/edit/remove reunions in the searchable database and view current reservation details.

AGM Property Management's New Site Goes Live

Bitsculptor recently finished a redesign and development project for AGM Property Management (www.agmpm.com) located in Lakeport, California and serving all of Lake County.

The previous version of the site was all hardcoded HTML pages which meant that anytime AGM wanted to make changes they had to contact their webmaster to do so. The new site has a password protected administration area where AGM can manage the rental properties that show up on the site. We also created the ability for users to register for accounts which they can then use to apply for rentals online. The rentals are easy to find using the search tools or the custom Google Maps integration which shows the exact location of specific rentals around the lake.

One the design side we were provided with existing branding and used this to create a bold, easy to use look and feel. This includes a navigation bar that stands out and is easy to understand as well as rounded corners on the site pages to complement the curve of the shooting star in the logo.

Beauty and functionality are the hallmarks of Bitsculptor web sites. The new AGM Property Management site is a great example of these two ideas working together. Hooray for us!

Hornbaker Gardens of Princeton, IL goes live with new branding, site design, and e-commerce

Based in Princton, IL, Hornbaker Gardens has sold a variety of plants via mail order and on site since 1987. Specializing in irises, daylilies, and hostas, Hornbaker Gardens chose BitSculptor to revamp their web presence, creating a new image for the company and expanding web site capabilities to provide for the online purchasing of their core products.

BitSculptor designed a new logo for Hornbaker Gardens, for use on the web site, brochures, and various other marketing materials.

Visitors to the site may purchase hosta, daylilies, and irises via the online store. Gift certificates may also be purchased and redeemed through the web site, and an opt-in email list allows Hornbaker Gardens to easily contact past customers to inform them of sales and news.

BitSculptor implemented a custom URL rewriting tool on the site's catalog pages in order to increase visibility to top search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. This tool ensures that each page of the catalog is seen as unique to the search engine, which greatly expands the amount of site content the search engine will index. More content indexed leads to more search engine referals, and more referals leads to increased sales.

Check it out online at:
www.hornbakergardens.com