Web Ascender

Web Ascender builds websites and creates web-marketing strategies for clients big and small on a variety of budgets. The selected websites shown here were created from budgets as low as $800 to over $50,000. Majority of these websites were built upon the DotNetNuke content management system and use many custom developed Web Ascender modules. This is just a subset of our portfolio, if you would like to see an example of a site we have developed for a specific industry please feel free to contact us.

AIS Construction Equipment and Web Ascender have worked together to build 3 new websites for their businesses. The new aisequip.com utilizes the power of our content management system as well as many custom Microsoft .NET components. This website integrates with their internal Lotus Notes database to deliver their used construction inventory to the website. Watch their testimonial.

Century 21 Looking Glass and Web Ascender worked side by side to create a groundbreaking Michigan Real Estate website.  The website combines Century 21 Looking Glass' business objectives with the latest web technologies to effectively deliver mid-Michigan properties to potential homebuyers.  The website uses both IDX and VOW regional property data, allowing the public to search for recent listings and save properties to their "cart".

ProSeriesGolf.com began working with Ryan Doom in 2001 to develop an online store to sell their custom golf clubs and golf components. Web Ascender developed a custom E-Commerce system and Internet Marketing plan to help their startup business excel in the competitive golf industry.  ProSeriesGolf now conducts 95% of its business over the Internet and frequently doubles their online sales every 6 months.

Web Ascender flexes it’s custom programming muscles to offer website features that fortune 500 companies have yet to implement. EduGuide is positioning itself to be a leader in helping parents, educators and students create roadmaps for future students success. The website has custom article libraries of over 1,000 relevant articles for different age groups. Users can create accounts and take quizzes that provide the individual with actionable items to improve upon; these users can even save their goals and keep track of their progress using the website. An e-commerce store allows for educators to order EduGuide’s physical publication and marketing materials. The website even runs a sophisticated ad management system that allows the EduGuide team to determine which sponsors ads show up for which pages or on which articles.

The Beneicke Group had previously been working with another company that had been failing to properly represent their company on the web meet their online marketing needs. Web Ascender worked with the Beneicke Group to showcase over 10 of their rental complexes, 2 of their new subdivision developments and a dozen of their homes that are for sale or for rent. What’s the best part? They can actively update photos, add properties and maintain all of the content themselves after working with Web Ascender to setup their online content management system.

Michigan College Goal Sunday is an event that is held every year to help kids apply for and earn money towards college.  It recently has been recognized by the State as an offical day in February and is organized and run by the Partnership for Learning.  Web Ascender created the website on the DotNetNuke content management system which allows their team to add and edit content and announcements as needed.  The MI College Goal site also allows for participants to schedule reminders and volunteers can signup online.

The LAP Respite Center is an amazing organization that gives temporary relief for caregivers and families who are caring for those with disabilities, chronic or terminal illnesses, or the elderly. Planned respite time is a vital part of the continuum of family services intended to reduce family stress, support family stability, and minimize the need for out-of-home placements. Web Ascender assisted the center by building the center a small website that can be managed by their staff as necessary & we also assist them in their online marketing efforts by providing the necessary resources to send out professional electronic newsletters.

Web Ascender worked with Flint based Excavation company Eagle Excavation to build a website that is easy to navigate and easily breaks down their services & case studies. The website was built with the DotNetNuke content management system and our team of experts at Web Ascender provided onsite training as well as documented manuals on how to edit each of the major sections. This website is an example of how you can convey a lot of information with very little text on a website when it is properly organized and accompanied by the appropriate photography.

Our good friends at the Michigan Dental Association were in a bind before we started this project. They had been using the same e-commerce system for over 5 years and it was a service that they used through Microsoft that was discontinued! They were giving a couple months notice that their e-commerce platform was getting shut down and they needed a solution quick, so they contacted the team that they knew would come through for them. Web Ascender quickly moved into action and had their new e-commerce system up and running with all the products migrated in a couple weeks.

Fold-a-Cover offers the most innovative tonneau cover that I have ever seen, you get all the benefits of a hard tonneau cover and a soft cover combined into one, and all the production happens right here in Michigan! Their production facility is very impressive, producing and shipping out many 1,000’s of covers a week and having contracts with major companies like Hummer to produce their covers that can be ordered right from General Motors. The Fold-a-Cover website is equipped with a custom developed DotNetNuke module that allows a visitor to select the type of truck they have and it automatically recommends the appropriate covers that will fit. The Fold-a-Cover website also has an advanced dealer locator that will map all the Fold-a-Cover dealers within a specified radius of your location.

Lansing Michigan based technology company The Axiom Group contracted with Web Ascender to rebuild their entire suite of websites. They needed a hip, professional and polished design that would accurately represent their growing innovative business and looked no farther than Web Ascender to deliver these services for them. Web Ascender provided The Axiom Group with the DotNetNuke content management system, many of our custom DotNetNuke modules and also custom coded Flash for their website.

The New Citizens Press is a Mid-Michigan based newspaper that worked with Web Ascender to extend their paper onto the web. The New Citizens Press creates and publishes all their articles and photos online themselves without any of Web Ascender assistance. Once again Web Ascender used the DotNetNuke platform as a foundation for building the TNCP website. It’s important to note that even though we use the DotNetNuke platform, many of the modules including the article system that is used for this website are not standard DotNetNuke modules. Over the many years of experience with the framework we have build a library of our own modules that we use in many of our custom websites.

Mixtopia Premier launched their website in early 2006 and have seen amazing results from their new website.  Web Ascender worked with Mixtopia early on to create an Internet marketing strategy for the keywords "bartending services."  Mixtopia is now on the first page of Google for "Michigan Bartending Services", and number one on MSN for the keywords "Bartending Services."

Web Ascender worked with H2O Sprinklers and McQueen Landscaping to showcase their work in the Greater Lansing area and create an Internet marketing strategy to drive potential clients to their website.  The website features our custom DotNetNuke photo gallery as well as the online form-builder which collects information from the visitor that is critical for H2O to create an estimate.

One of the great things about the DotNetNuke website platform is that we can create new websites very quickly.  Murphy Family Dentists had their website up within 5 days of our first conversation.  The site is designed for prospective customers and current clients to find out more about the practice as well as obtain contact information and directions.

We worked with Amazon’s Parenting Best Seller Marybeth Hicks to work on two websites to assist her in marketing her latest book. Web Ascender worked with her design team to create a new website to showcase her blog, speaking and Washington Times articles. After completing the website that showcased her, we designed one for her new book Bringing Up Geeks.

The Minnesota Chiropractic Association used Web Ascender to create a new website to service their members and those seeking Chiropractic services. The website will allow their members to register for events, access secured member only areas and get notified of important news. It also has special sections available only to the board of directors for meeting minutes and pertinent documents. Minnesota residents can use a Google maps interface on the website to find a chiropractor in their area.

Dr. Anderson has been coaching runners for decades and he worked with Web Ascender to take his training and coaching online. Web Ascender used the DotNetNuke content management system to set Dr. Anderson up with a Blog, featuring RSS, automatic email updates and the website also allows Dr. Anderson to sell his coaching services and seminars online. This is helping Dr. Anderson to position himself in the industry to start training and coaching some of the best marathon runners and thanks to the internet he can also coach you!

This Web Ascender client is helping to make the earth a greener place, and making your loved ones happy in the process. Future Oxygen Cards used Web Ascender to create an e-commerce website that allow the public & wholesalers access to the website to buy their unique cards. These cards are actually biodegradable and when you plant them flowers and plants grow! Web Ascender built this website with the DotNetNuke content management system and our development team has made it possible for this client to easily add new categories and cards for sale to their website.

WeDoItAll.com requested that Web Ascender build them a website that will help contractors in all 50 states get more business. They worked with our team to create an online directory of contractors in different cities, states and professions that is searchable by zip code. Website visitors can then request a quote from the contractor, or submit information about their job to get competing quotes from different contractors. The system also has an area where contractors can sign up and register themselves. They can buy premium listings in the classifieds area, as well as purchase leads that are submitted from visitors on the website.

The Michigan Education Association (MEA) used Web Ascender to create a small website for one of their dropout prevention initiatives. The website features information regarding their summit, link to register online through one of their partner websites, as well as a way to fill out a PDF and register by mail. Features that you might not be able to see are the blog, documents and other features that are available to their participants after the event by logging in and participating.

We have been working with clients in other states and all around the world on their DotNetNuke projects. Cubic, a publicly traded company has used Web Ascender to prototype and develop multiple .NET projects including a custom DotNetNuke mapping application. The application allows them to define regions around the world such as Asia, Europe, Australia and then using DNN permissions to control which users have access to which regions. News and important information is then posted to these maps for their users to view in real time. The system is expected to deliver news and important updates to facilities around the world.

Michigan Dental Association has been working with the members of Web Ascender for many years, when it came to determining who would do their redesign in 2008 the fact that our team has always been very responsive to their needs and issues was a major factor. Web Ascender worked with their marketing team to create a design that worked with their new brand and printed materials. Web Ascender created custom member only sections, event registration integration, features to pay dues and make payments online, mapping solutions to find a dentist in your area, on online store, and an article/content management system to manage over 400 pages of content.

Tomie Raines Inc., a leading real estate company in mid-Michigan, used Web Ascender to rebuild their website to offer more features and increase the sites day-to-day stability. Web Ascender worked with Tomie Raines Inc. to provide online property listings, micro-websites for their real estate agents, member access to save properties of interest, as well as creating a system to capture leads from interested home buyers.

America by Rail offers vacations throughout the United States, their difference is that you get to enjoy the scenic countryside by rail as you travel between your vacation destinations.  Web Ascender worked closely with America by Rail to identify their typical customer, and built the website to target that demographic.  We made the website compact, easy to read, and extremely easy to navigate, as well as added a way to increase font size to help viewers with deteriorating eyesight.  Watch their testimonial.

Go Solutions Group had recently decided to rename and rebrand their company to better fit with the products they sell and the customers they service.  Time was of the essence to Go Solutions Group as they had been struggling internally to get the necessary time to dedicate to building their website, and they needed it fast.  Web Ascender worked with Go Solutions Group to outline their website sitemap and then created their website within 2 weeks to meet their launch deadline. Watch their testimonial.

Joey’s Pet Outfitters is a pet supply company focusing on natural holistic foods, latest fashions, and unique dog and cat products.  Joey’s Pet Outfitters recently went through a brand update with a new logo and store makeover.  Joey’s Pet Outfitters used Web Ascender to create a website that would match their brand and be easy for their staff to update. They were also happy that we were 25% under budget at the end of the project.

The chiropractors at Total Health Fitness had worked with another web development company for 3 months before switching to Web Ascender who delivered the first version in 3 weeks.  Web Ascender worked with Total Health Fitness to build an online membership portal where their chiropractic team could easily shoot their own exercise and training videos then upload them to the website on their own.  To date Total Health Fitness as created and uploaded over 100 videos and articles into their members only area without any assistance from our technical team.

Have a beautiful portfolio to showcase? Boyd Landscaping did, so they worked with Web Ascender to setup a system where they could easily create their own photo galleries and add photos and manage their website on their own.  Web Ascender worked with Boyd landscaping over the course of 4 weeks to select photos, determine their sitemap, and outline the content to be created when building their website.

Web Ascender worked with Security First Insurance, who has been in business for over 85 years, to rebuild their new website.  They needed a professional image that explained what they did and allowed them to capture internet leads through online contact and quote forms.  This website is built on the DotNetNuke content management platform and enables Security First Insurance to maintain an accurate online directory of their growing staff.

Web Ascender has worked with the Nichols Law Firm over the years to create three websites.  A website for their practice, a micro website to focus specifically on auto accidents and a website to blog about criminal law developments in Michigan.  Nichols Law firm manages all of their content and announcements themselves and relies on Web Ascender only to design and create the framework for each of their websites.  Web Ascender also manages a search engine marketing campaign for the firm.

Home Health Strategic Management needed a way to showcase their seminars, sell products and DVDs online, grow their newsletter base as well as showcase their upcoming events.  Working with Web Ascender allowed them to get the features they needed at a price they could afford.  We also are saving them lots of money each month because they can manage all of their own events and news announcements.

Fat Boy’s Pizza worked with Web Ascender to build a site that focused on their staff, community efforts and why the Fat Boy’s company is great, not just its pizza.  That is a given.  Web Ascender setup coupon areas, newsletter systems, online videos, and even a way for their favorite customers to upload their own photos.

How do you manage 1,000’s of articles, Word documents, PDF’s, press releases and project profiles for your business?  You contact Web Ascender.  Our team worked with AEG to programmatically migrate 1,000’s of articles from an older system to our articles system in the DotNetNuke content management system.  AEG now has much more control of where information shows on their website and can manage it with ease.

Web Ascender worked with the Trac Trenching team to create a website to help market their unique business.  What was great for Trac Trenching is that technology is relatively new to them and they appreciated how closely Web Ascender worked with them on explaining things in detail so they could understand.  We built their website on a quick timeline and to their complete satisfaction, it showcases projects they have worked on and the services they can perform.