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» What are Self-Service Sites?
k2concepts.com Self-Service Sites have been designed to provide you, the site owner, the ability to quickly and easily update your site on your own. Using a simple web browser* you can:
Other features include a site e-mail list, calendar, site search, site map and shopping cart. * - Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater (Windows) or the latest version of Netscape, Mozilla & Firefox (Windows & Mac OS X) is required.
Self-Service Sites use the latest menu/icon driven technology so that HTML experience is not required. Here is an example of the menu used.
Just using the menu icons you can easily:
These are very similar to the icons used by many of the major word processors. These icons place all the needed HTML into your page (behind the scene) so that no HTML experience is needed.
Here are screen shots of the site admin area:
Yes you can. Simply add your product information to the product database and upload your product photo. Add lots of products if you'd like. Site visitor can purchase your products using major credit cards.
The short answer to that questions is a lot. Through Self-Service your photos can be easily uploaded to the web server for use on your site. One of the more powerful features of Self-Service is the ability to resize photos during uploading. You don't need to resize your digital camera photos before uploading them to your site. Let Self-Service do it for you. Not only will Self-Service reduce the photo width to your specification, but it will also optimize the size of the photo for efficient page downloads. Self-Service can take your 5 mega pixel photos from your digital camera (they may be 2 MB in size) and reduce them to 400 pixels width (an appropriate width for display on your site) and lower the file size to less than 25 KB. This is a very powerful feature because it is done in seconds during the upload process and it makes the photo immediately available for use on your site. Here are a couple of other photo features:
Self-Service Sites also provide you an e-mail list. Site visitors can easily join your list by simply providing their e-mail address. As site owner you can send out e-mails to everyone on your list at any time. A link is provided at the bottom of each e-mail for users to easily unsubscribe automatically. You don't need to worry about updated the list. Users can subscribe and unsubscribe themselves. Recent Enhancements: There are now four e-mail list settings available in Self-Service: announcement only (anyone can join the list from the site, however only the site owner can send to the list); moderated (anyone can join the list from the site and anyone can e-mail the list from the site, however the e-mail must be approved by the site owner before it is released for distribution to the list); unmoderated (anyone can join the list from the site and anyone can e-mail the list from the site without approval); no list (the e-mail list feature can be turned off completely).
A calendar is also available. You can easily add items to your calendar that show on your site. Plus it is an interactive calendar. When the date of the event has past, the event is no longer shown. Additionally, the calendar and e-mail list are integrated. When you add or edit a calendar item you have the option of sending a notice to the e-mail list. This e-mail is automatic and provides those on your list all available information about the calendar event. This integrated feature also works well for sending reminders of upcoming events.
Self-Service Sites only cost $24.95/month (annual commitment required, plus a one-time $20 set-up fee). This includes all hosting and licensing fees. Site design is the other cost involved in setting up a site. There are three options:
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