These are actual live sites in production, which we use for testing new applications and code changes on. Everything gets tested on these sites to make sure they work in an actual production environment. They are checked for server loads, speed in processing, customer comprehension and best of all, search engine optimization.
First, checkout the level of customization that can be done to the program. You can pretty much create any look and feel you like, only limited by your imagination. You can go ahead and make a purchase for something low in price, to get the full experience of the program. I'm not joking, how else will you know if you like the program or not. First, checkout the levels of customization that can be done to the program. You can pretty much create any look and feel you like, only limited by your imagination. You can go ahead and make a purchase for something low in price, to get the full experience of the program. I'm not joking, how else you will know if you like the program or not.
The program ships with the stock neutral gray look for white, and a neutral charcoal look for black. Some of the artwork is user selectable such as headers, and the rest of the artwork can be changed by altering the source code and re-compiling it.
Last but not least, use your favorite search engine and pick out some keywords to use for testing of the organic search results. This will give you an idea how optimized the product is for search crawlers and bots. We have just added automatic a RSS Feed Generator, and a automatic sitemap generator and submitter. More optimizations are planned and will be available in a downloadable service pack.
Navigate to the TroxellUSA website
This is the primary website that we do our testing on. We have a special business arrangement with the customer that allows us to perform testing of new code modules, and testing of upgrades and code changes. The relationship works out quite well for us, since they have actual real products to test against, and not phoney made up ones.
This the basic package that has been slightly customized. There is a template called masterpages, in which we just changed the header and footer image. You can make the website black, white or any color you choose. We made some of the pages black like the home or landing page, movie page and left the rest of the pages white. We choose the black button options for the black pages, and the white button option for the white pages. We also have the silver button options as well.
Customization does require one with the skill level to use a well qualified graphics program like Adobe Illustrator, Fireworks or Corel Draw to create good looking artwork. The artwork in this website was made with Adobe Illustrator CS3 and Adobe Fireworks CS5.
This internet store has over 250 items listed, and contains 28 product demonstration movies. They use UPS for shipping and Authorize.net for credit card processing.
So far, the operation of this store has exceeded expectation levels, in terms of customer satisfaction, and revenue generated over the last 4 months. Our Shipping module has been 108% accurate, in which shipping revenues have exceeded the quoted value by 8%. The shipping volume has increased, allowing for the company to qualify for the next discount level from UPS. So the average package price of $7.62 should drop to $5.50 over the next couple of months. There has been no charge backs for late or failed shipments, and no voids or credits has been issued. The AVS Card Processing system has been spot -on, with no fraudulent transactions being allowed to get processed. The abandoned cart rate is quite low at 4%, and the fraud rate came in at 2%. We have fine tuned the credit card processing rates, and was able to lower them by 5% overall, by dropping the acceptance of certain cards.
Phase 2 of deployment will commence on December 2010, in which we will promote the website through both print and internet ad campaigns. Advertising will be taken out on certain trade publications, that will raise the attention of customers and inform them that the site exist. The promotion code program will then be engaged, in which each print or internet ad will offer a specific code that identifies the origin of the lead, in exchange for offering the customer a 5% to 10% discount. The program will then gather the codes and perform an analysis of which ad campaigns are producing the best results.
Navigate to the Dinostone website
Dinostone is our 2nd deployment of the program, in which heavy pieces of stone and tile will be sold online. This internet store presents many new challenges for Internet Commerce Engine 5, in which we must be able to get a shipping rate for large orders of stone up to 2000 pounds. This requires being able to calculate the proper qualified shipping or LTL service, and to generate a accurate rate quote for the customer. So the stakes are much higher in this case. Were quite confident that our shipping algorhythms are spot accurate, but now we get to put it to the real test.
There are over 270 product offerings in this store, and no movies have been added yet. We will be using UPS for shipping, and Authorize.net for payment processing. For pallet orders, Custom Freight and Trucking will be used for LTL Freight.
redCopper Online Marketing made the artwork for this internet store. redCopper, Inc is the parent company of ice5commerce. In mid 2010, the company was split up into 2 divisions, in which redCopper focuses on smart internet marketing, and ice5commerce develops and delivers the entire e-commerce program used for both companies. In the future, you'll see more ice5commerce features being ported over to redCopper, to create backend and content management of the next generation of redCopper websites.
redCopper specializes in online marketing, in which they put together marketing campaigns based on demographic data we have collected over the last 10 years. Then they put together a marketing plan and strategy, which uses websites, print, television and radio ad placement to drive customers to a centralized gathering point, which is the website medium. They are capable of generating the artwork, custom photography, print ads, and verbal narrative scripts, which deliver targeted messages to promote your goods and services.
The artwork was created in Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Fireworks was used to process all of the product images in batch mode. All of the decorative images are .PNG or (portable network graphics), in which modern day browsers are capable of using the transparency features of the .PNG format. So this is a pure .PNG web site, and the product images are jpegs, that offer a higher level of compression for smaller file sizes.
This internet store contains a different mix of artwork, in which no flash has been used. The customer requested a 100% black website, and Internet Commerce Engine 5 is capable of switching from white to black using the properties panel. We set all the pages to black with the black buttons option, and used product and movie images with black backgrounds. Black was chosen so that the beauty and color of the stone stands out much stronger than just using white. We wanted to show you just how flexible, your customization levels can be. What's neat about Internet Commerce Engine 5, is that all of the small artwork is premade and themed, so you only have to focus on the small amount of art to create the look and feel you desire. This speeds up the deployment process, and gets your store up and running at a much faster rate.
Since most stone are earth-tones, we went with the warm feeling of browns, ivory, gold complimented with the rich tones of dark red and copper for the color theme of the store. We also took all the product photos, and wrote a Fireworks batch script that scaled the images, set the background color, and exported the files to the jpeg format. The stone photos were taken outside in January, late in the afternoon, so we could the warm red tones of natural winter sunlight.
redCopper has a couple of really good photographers that are capable of taking excellent photos of products and services, that represent the actual message that is assigned to the image and topic. They have over 10 years of experience in this field, and are available as part of a customized marketing package that you may inquire about.
Navigate to the Champions ProShop Website
We’re showing you this website for 2 reasons now. One is because ice5commerce inherits a marketing oriented background, in which our main business is online marketing. Two is because the components contained in all ice5 commerce products allow you to build a site just like this one.
This project is based on some experimentation of marketing concepts we have been toying with over the last 5 years. So let me introduce you to Talking Website Generation 4, or we call it TWG4. Everything you see on this website is standard issue for the Internet Commerce Engine line of products, or any ice5commerce product offering. Because we have a marketing background, we give you the tools needed for successful marketing.
TWG4 came from the thought that nobody really takes the time to read a website the first time around. They just look at the pictures, and try to form a mental image of what your site is offering. Often times, written messages are too complex to comprehend, so some sort of animation is required to state your point. But let's take that 1 step further, by adding audio narration to the mix of senses.
The marketing campaign for this site is for the entry level bowler looking for a proshop to make their first purchase from. The proshop is able to offer a wider variety of products and services to the entry level bowler, than a online bowling website. In just one stop to the shop, you can get your ball, shoes, a bag, and lessons to begin your bowling career. You don't have to think about which products are best for you, those choices are made for you automatically, and are included as a package deal.
We broke the business down in 4 categories, Bowling, Embroidery, Training and Pro Shop. The landing page is very vague, as not to confuse the entry level bowler. The advanced bowler however, is able to navigate the site to find what their looking for. Several more programs were going to be added to the site, one is the honor roll. in which customers would be able to post their achievements to show to the world, and create envy and jealously to others, encouraging others to take lessons or buy better equipment. The other being a blog or forum to help out those that have questions.
Since this site is based on the ice5commerce base code package, adding a store, a blog, or forum to this site is just a matter of dropping in the program folders and updating the menu's.
So the point is, you can build a site just like this one using the controls, tools and programs within ice5commerce products. With a little bit of research, you can create your own marketing campaign as well.
Champions Pro Shop Web Site is a sample, and completion of the project has been canceled by the customer.
In almost every case, the customers never have any artwork for use in their website. We took the Pro Shop pictures, and the bowler profiles images, and downloaded a media package for the bowling ball images from Kentucky.
All the custom photography was taken in just 5 hours during one Saturday afternoon. The bowler profile images were just some fun shots in which we changed out the background to make then funny or super serious. The shot of the Berlin wall is real, we spray painted the track logo on it, and layered in the bowler, which is a friend of mine. He's a professional bowler, and represents Track Bowling.
Navigate to the DFW Dental Implant Center Website
This is another TWG4 project we created for DFW Dental Implant Center of Southlake Texas. The owner of the site called us from seeing another dental implant site we did using TWG2. He liked the way we marketed a General Dentistry Center as a Virtual Dental Implant Center.
Our marketing campaign for this site came from a thought I had while eating lunch with friends at the mall. There was a cosmetic surgery center across the way, dedicated to well, cosmetic surgery. They had a complete unit dedicated to the service at the mall. So I was thinking, why can't I do that online, but instead of a building, I construct a virtual building or website, and give it a fancy name. To the user on the website, they think it's a dedicated facility for nothing but that service, until they arrive and walk in the door.
So introducing our 2nd Virtual Dental Implant Center. We have one in Huntington Beach, CA and one in Dallas Texas now.
We started out with an updated ice5 commerce base code package 1.4, and built a new site using more earth tone colors with red and brown oxides to accent the primary colors. Upon approval from the customer for the basic site layout, marketing strategy and a down payment to seal the contract, we started gathering all the images for the crowns and hardware needed for a implant. Everybody came through except for Ankylos. They gave us junk we could not use, while hats off to Emax, for providing all the wonderful images or milled and raw porcelain.
So now we begins the work on the movies. Our movies are made in Flash CS3, and are almost pure AS3 code and image assets. They sort of resemble South Park, that have the cutout construction paper characters in them. We have developed a secret sauce that keeps the movie audio in sync with the movie frames, so the whole movie syncs up on any computer model. We have found that the frame rate accelerates on computers with fast micro processors, while audio streams play at a constant rate. So the movies have Flash gaming technology we wrote from scratch.
Towards the end of making the movies, we still needed all the missing artwork to make them complete, or else we were not getting paid. So I had to learn how to draw real fast, like in 1 week to meet the project deadline. Below are the parts I needed to complete the storyboard for movie number 2. I made them in Adobe Illustrator CS3 from scratch, looking at just a small thumbnail of the real thing. They look pretty good, and are fine enough to make the point in the movie. The images below are shapes I made with the eclipse tool, and then I used the gradient mesh tool to paint the objects. The silver items are painted with over 25 shades of black and white, with a little bit of blue to accent them. I also drew the tooth as well, but sort of made it too wide, time was short and I had to go with it.
Checkout the website and see what you think. I know the subject of dental implants is boring, but's is the marketing factor that your looking at. We just wanted to give you a taste of what we are capable of doing, and if the right customer comes along, we may reconsider working with them.
By the way, I did all the research on dental implants, how there made, installed, and the materials strength. I can tell you anything you want to know about dentistry, from tooth whitening, to oral surgery. That's from 8 years of making dentistry websites.
This is the last website we have made, except for ours. We are no longer taking orders for websites or doing anymore marketing projects, until perhaps May or June 2011. Our full focus in on Internet Commerce Engine 5, now that it is ready for market. So were going to make a new redCopper and HKB Project web site first.
You may try Internet Commerce Engine Risk-Free for 90 Days. If you like the program, just purchase a license key to unlock the program and your ready to go. You can run the program in production mode during the trial period, for there are no restrictions.
Upon purchasing your license, your store and company will become a verified merchant, and will carry the verified merchant seal upon checkout. This seal is designed to prove to customers that the program is not stolen, and that your website is not a scam to steal their personal information. Your site will then be listed on our verified merchant page, and a link will be made to your site. This link will help drive traffic to your site. If your site looks great, then we will showcase your site upon permission, and show it to others. We’ll help you get the wheels turning on your site so that it gets indexed by search engines.
We are taking extreme measures to ensure that each customer that purchased the program are a legitimate company, that provides the highest levels of goods and services, so that our name does not become tarnished in the industry.
We've been making ecommerce and shopping cart components for over 10 years now. Most of our products are used in the infomercial industry for payment processing and shipping.
Our goal is to make ecommerce software that is simple and effective, yet powerful in processing and ease of use.