Web Ascender

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.