The following section describes the most popular tools and capabilities of the websites built through Intelligent Design. Take time to learn these features as you will need to effectively discuss them with your customers. These tools can be used as great selling points with your prospective customers.

The Chat Room Tool gives the site owner the ability to setup an online chat room for customers or visitors. Chat rooms can be public (accessible to anyone) or private (restricted access to specific people).

BENEFITS This is a very effective way for business owners to establish personalized relationships with their customers. It opens up a direct line of communication and provides great opportunities for customer relationship management. Site owners can have scheduled online real-time conversations about products, services or user feedback. This increases their brand visibility and can establish online community interest groups and forums.

ESTMIATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Ranges between $200-$450 from a traditional web developer.

Much like an online rolodex, the Contact Manager Tool lets the website owner organize and manage contact information for their customers, business associates, and suppliers. Users can manually input contact information, or have the contacts added automatically through the Feedback form on the site. Once the Contact manager is populated with contact information, the site owner can create mailing lists to email specific customers interested in upcoming sales or promotions.

BENEFITS By utilizing this tool, site owners can generate customer alter systems to inform existing customers of promotions or new products. In addition, the owner has the ability to schedule events or appointments and create “To Do” lists for assistance in managing day-to-day activities.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Ranges between $400-$1000 from a traditional developer.

The Domain Tool gives the website owner the ability to check the availability of a particular domain name and transfer or register domain names when setting up their site.

BENEFITS Conveniently located within the website, this tool can be accessed at any time by the owner to verify the availability of additional domain names, and register as many names as they desire. Without this tool, the owner would be forced to contact third-party registrars, request domain name status information and wait for a response.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE This convenience varies with availability, and some companies charge several hundred dollars for popular domain names on an as-requested basis.

Our web solution automatically converts simple point-and-click instructions into HTML, the programming language used on the internet. All site changes are mad instantly, and even whicl the changes are being made, the website owner is never taken offline or labeled as “Under Construction”.

BENEFITS It is unnecessary for the business owner to have previous programming experience or learn any programming languages. If they have the ability to turn on a computer, follow instructions, and have a desire to have a successful web presence, they will not have a problem using our powerful system.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Traditional developers typically charge between $100-$200 per houw to make changes to an existing website. Although some companies prorate their fees in half-hour increments, the minimum charge to make a single change will often exceed $100.

The comprehensive set of tools included all of the components necessary to help site owners build a fully functional e-commerce website. The site owner can establish a merchant account, establish shipping and handling rules, enter appropriate tax rates, and check outstanding orders.

BENEFITS E-Commerce functionality allows your customers to conduct business online with their new website. Very few developers can offer all of these tools to their clients, and the few that can charge thousands extra just to add shopping cart software. Our robust system allows businesses to get online fast and start making money quickly.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Merchant tools and services that integrate features like order tracking and invoicing can be programmed by a traditional web developer or purchased as add-on software for websites for prices between $1000-$3000.

With Intelligent Design’s solution, site owners are provided with 20 email aliases for each registered domain name. This feature permits the sorting and routing of email messages to specific departments or employees, streamlining and managing the online requests from customers. For example, customers may be directed to sales@yourcompany.com for sales information, or help@yurcompany.com for customer service inquiries.

BENEFITS This tool gives the owner the ability to personalize the email by department, individual or function, and to present a professional, corporate image to its customers.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Traditional developers sometimes charge $20-$25 per email alias.

The Filing Cabinet allows the website owner to store internal files that are not to be made available to customers. This filing cabinet is like a remote hard drive: the owner can store information in the cabinet and access it from remote locations. The Filing Cabinet also provides access to the image library, and includes advanced functions like creating and operating password-protected directories, moving, coping, and deleting selected files.

BENEFITS Having a remote hard drive allows the business owner to store unused items like seasonal products, promotional items and documents for retrieval at any time, without taking up any additional storage space on their system.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE The Filing Cabinet tool associated with Intelligent Design’s system includes 500 MB (megabytes) of storage space with the monthly hosting and management fee. To put it into perspective, 500 MB is roughly the equivalent of 20 complete sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, back-to-back. Hosting companies often charge between $200-$300 monthly for this amount of storage space, not including technical support or any other additional services.

The Flash Editor allows the website owner to customize Flash movies to introduce the website, including text, images and sound. A library of Flash pages (each about 10 seconds in duration) is available for the website owner to select from and customize to their preferences and needs. A business owner can choose on the existing Flash pages or add one to the website that they create themselves.

BENEFITS Flash adds flair to a website, capturing the interest and attention of the individual who visits the site. Adding animation, sound, slogans and subtitles to the introductory screen of a website gives the site personality unique to the business it represents.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Flash is an expensive add-on to a website if programmed through a traditional developer. It typically requires special software to create Flash animations, and is usually billed to the customer by a web developer at rates ranging from $75 per second up to $300 per second of run time. In other words, a 10 second Flash page could cost the business owner $750 to $3000.

The Image Editor Tool gives website owners the ability to enhance website images quickly and easily. Users may select colors for their modifications from a diverse color palette that has been included for their convenience.

BENEFITS This gives the website owner significant creative and artistic freedom. Without this feature, the site owner would have to make changes to an image using expensive supplementary software programs and image uploads. This embedded capability saves the owner a tremendous amount of time by enabling them to make modifications to the same image over and over after the initial upload.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Supplementary third-party software that performs the graphics editing functions of the website Image Editor Tool can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars depending on the program. An image editing program that allows basic cropping, framing, text layering, resizing, and transparency will reasonably range between $200-$500.

Website owners can create an online catalog and display thousands of items on their site. By entering each item individually, or utilizing the Upload Files Tool, the owner can decide what information to provide about a product, including price, description, weight, size, color options and an image for the item. This feature is just as useful for the website owners providing a service such as photography, custom cabinets, general contracting,…etc. This tool can be used to an online portfolio to display their work.

BENEFITS All websites come standard with a product catalog capable of displaying thousands of items. More than just listing of products, the product catalog offers a wide range of value-added features: functional image support, product categories and divisions, product descriptions, discount coding, custom shipping methods, handling charges with basic and premium options, tax methods and more. Moreover, the site owner has the flexibility to add, change or delete items as necessary.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Shopping carts and catalog features can vary widely in price, depending on whether they are encrypted or not, as well as the level of integration with the software. When programmed by a traditional developer, they typically range from a low end of $1500 to an upper end of $3000 for encrypted shopping carts that protect customers’ payment information as Intelligent Design’s shopping carts do.

This feature gives the website owner the ability to simultaneously submit their website to several of the major search engines by simply clicking a button. Our system gives step-by-step instructions on how to enter the information that will be submitted and retains the information for future submissions.

BENEFITS Other than word-of-mouth, the primary way retail shoppers find a website on the internet is by using a search engine. By effectively and consistently submitting a website’s information to the search engines, a site can significantly improve its chances for obtaining and maintaining a favorable search ranking. Without this tool, the owner is left with two unattractive options. The owner can purchase expensive software that will assist in the submission process or, hire another company to submit their website for additional monthly fees. For no extra charge, our system includes a complete set of tools to assist with the initial submission to search engines, and to resubmit in a matter of seconds.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Hosting companies and third-party website promotion companies offer site promotion services on a monthly fee basis ranging between $150-$500. other options include specialized software that can be purchased on a price plus subscription fee which ranges between $200-$400.

This amazing tool allows your customers to have their website instantly translated into 11 different languages---Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (both simplified and traditional) and Russian in a matter of seconds.

BENEFITS With the Site Translation Tool, your customers will be able to penetrate new markets and reach billions of consumers across the globe that speak a language other than English. This software was developed by the same company that creates customized translation software for US intelligence agencies, The Department of Defense, NASA, and multinational corporations like Cisco, Xerox, Ford, Google, and AOL. The unique translation engine is currently used to translate more than 6 million website daily and provides the highest consistent translation accuracy by using recognized linguistic rules, word phrasing, and the latest Natural Language Processing techniques.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE If a website owner wanted to use similar technology to translate their site for visitors, it would cost well over $500.

NOTE: This feature is available only after the website is activated.

The Statistics Tool provides the website owner with important information to help them statistically track the traffic visiting their site.

BENEFITS This tool enables the owner to monitor very specific information about site traffic---information that goes beyond just the basic number of hits the site has received. Website owners can track site and page hits per day or per week, the most recent visitors to the site, and which search engines those visitors came from. This data allows website owners to objectively evaluate their online marketing efforts, and make informed decisions about their website’s performance.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Hosting companies often charge an add-on fee or higher monthly hosting fees to offer the service of analyzing website usage. Although other companies may advertise usage tracking as a free service, it is often a hit counter that tells the owner how many times the website has been accessed. To offer additional analysis that compares to our system, typical costs range from $20-$50 per month above the regular monthly hosting fee.

All website owners have unlimited use of our Customer Care team to assist with the website modification process. Customer Care will not complete the site for the website owner, but with the user-friendly tools, this is generally not an issue. When users have questions about how the site operates, they can call Customer Care or use the live, online Java Chat Tool. Technical Support is available Monday-Friday 7:00 am-7:00 pm PST.

BENEFITS Normally, website owners must pay a professional web developer to build their website or assist with the development of the site. Intelligent Design does not charge owners to use the professional Customer Care staff. As the website owner’s business evolves, their website should have the capability of evolving as well. The functionality our system is so easy to use that after a site owner is walked through a process once or twice, they will feel comfortable making changes on their own.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE In addition to any hourly fees that a web developer charges the customer, technical is typically billed at a higher rate. Even web hosting companies that offer “toll free” technical support often charge hourly rates---the call is free, but the support is not. Other web hosting companies offer a finite number of technical support hours included with the monthly hosting, but time in excess of what is allowed costs between $25-$50 per hour.

This feature gives the owner the ability to upload multiple files, including HTML files, and up to 100 images at a time.

BENEFITS The Upload Files Tool saves a tremendous amount of time. Uploading files and images can be extremely time-consuming and generally has to be done one image at a time. For a website owner that has several images to add to their online catalog, this high-speed upload capability is a necessity.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE Software that allows for multiple file uploads can cost as much as $60. Other web hosting companies may include the ability to upload multiple files at a time, but often limit the number of files or the amount of megabytes that are allowed to be uploaded monthly. Our system supports unlimited uploads each month.

By default, the system will process online orders by emailing the business owner with the customer’s information. If the website owner would like to enable real time, online processing with an existing merchant account, you may do so in the Merchant Account Options section. Using the Merchant Account Option allows the website owner to establish online processing with companies like Authorize.Net, Bank Of America, Itransact.com, LinkPoint, ECHO, Innovative Gateway, and other recognized account processors.

This feature enables retail visitors to view a map of the website business locations, with the additional capability of zooming and out for a better look at the area. Website visitors can also obtain detailed driving directions by entering their current address.

BENEFITS Website owners can choose to refer customers to their website for detailed driving directions, rather than giving directions over the telephone.

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE This interactive map feature is a value-added service that the business owner can offer to existing customers and prospective customers.

Easily add the following features with the click of your mouse to the website:

STOCK QUOTE, WEATHER FORECAST, CALENDAR, AND CALCULATORS INCLUDING BODY MASS, CASH FLOW, MORTGAGE, RETIREMENT, TYPING...AND MORE

ESTIMATED COMPARATIVE VALUE These features offer the website owner the ability to add services which most web design companies add as "EXTRAS". Be sure to use these as value-added selling points in your presentation.