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Don't let a lack of affordable technical expertise keep you from enjoying the full potential of your online investment. Your website can be equipped with fully interactive components and features for a lot less than you probably think. If you're ready to take your website to the next level, Coastal Graphics Inc. can provide you with economical solutions that are customized for your individual business needs. We can make your website work for you by equipping it with tools and resources that will help grow your business or organization in ways that you probably never even considered. The most dependable way to generate frequent, abundant, and repeat visits to your website is to provide a dynamic and interactive user experience. Additionally, using your website as an internal business communications forum can increase the efficiency and productivity of your own sales an service efforts exponentially. The possibilities are limitless, as are the potential advantages and benefits.
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Commonly Used Interactive Website Features Include:
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 Accounting & Bookkeeping Software
|  Automatic Form Responses
|  Business Systems
|  Business to Business (B2B) Applications
|  Business to Consumer (B2C) Applications
|  Client Management Systems (CMS)
|  Contact Management Software
|  Content Management Systems
|  Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
|  Customer Service Software
|  Dating Website Applications
|  Chat Rooms & Discussion Boards
|  Document Management Systems
|  Dynamic Mailing Lists
|  Ecommerce Software
|  Educational Software
|  Employment And Job Boards
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 Financial Applications
|  Hotel Reservation Software
|  Inquiry Submission Forms
|  Instructional Software
|  Insurance Systems
|  Intranets & Portals
|  Interactive Forums
|  Inventory Management
|  Link Exchange Systems
|  Medical Applications
|  Member Directory Systems
|  Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Systems
|  Online Banking Systems
|  Online Calendar Software
|  Online Catalogs
|  Online Directories
|  Online Email Systems
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 Online Poll Software
|  Online Questionnaires
|  Online Surveys
|  Point-Of-Sale Retail Applications
|  Project Management Software
|  Private Member Area Systems
|  Real Estate Management Software
|  Restaurant Reservation Systems
|  Sales Force Software
|  Sales Lead Mangement
|  Scheduling Systems
|  Search Engines
|  Shopping Cart Software
|  Store Management Systems
|  Trouble Ticket Applications
|  Various Website Forms
|  Voting Software
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Our Application Development and Custom Programming Expertise Includes:
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 | HTML / CSS Programming | | | HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the fundamental building block of the World Wide Web, the core language in which Websites and Web pages are coded. It is basically nothing more than a regulated method of structuring text and accompanying files such as images and sounds. As the World Wide Web has matured, once static HTML pages are now often supplemented with other technologies in order to make them more dynamic and animated. Such supporting technologies include CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), used to describe extended formatting capabilities of an HTML document, and DHTML (Dynamic HTML), which is a technique of creating interactivity within an HTML document by combining HTML, a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript) and layout definitions through Cascading Style Sheets.
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 | Javascript Programming | | | Javascript an object-based scripting language that is often embedded directly within html documents in order to provide additional display or interactive functionality. These supplemental features and operations execute client-side: that is, on the user's local computer. This can be advantageous on several levels. The processing power required is provided by the local computer rather than the referring server, thus enabling certain computationally-intensive tasks to perform in a more efficient and timely manner. Additionally, jobs that can be performed by the client computer via Javascript can do so without sending data over the network, so less bandwidth is consumed, and security risks are minimalized.
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 | Cold Fusion ( ColdFusion ) Programming | | | ColdFusion is a tag-based, middleware programming language developed specifically for the purpose of creating web applications. It is a commercial product, currently owned and distributed by Macromedia Inc. (soon to be acquired by Adobe Systems Inc.), and is generally recognized to be the easiest rapid development language for web application purposes. It has a large user community, standardized usage parameters, and is typically easy and inexpensive to find qualified support for. Because it is not an open-source or freeware technology, web hosting accounts equipped with the ColdFusion application server are typically slightly more expensive.
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 | ASP Programming | | | ASP (Active Server Pages) is a language-neutral server-side scripting environment developed by Microsoft Corporation. ASP is standardly configured with VBScript and JScript (Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript) scripting engines, and is most commonly employed utilizing those technologies. However, ASP can also be made to accommodate PERL, REXX, Python, Visual Basic, C++, or Java, depending upon the developer's preference or what the project at hand calls for.
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 | PHP / MySQL Programming | | | PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is quickly becoming the most popular open-source scripting language used for generating and serving dynamic web content. The term open-source, is used to describe software with a source code that is freely redistributed. Syntactically, PHP is a fusion of Perl, Java and C characteristics, and is particularly well-suited for tasks that require vigorous database interfacing. MySQL is the leading open source SQL-based relational database management system (RDBMS). MySQL is powerful, fast, reliable, easy to use, and is generally the storage mechanism most often used in conjunction with PHP.
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 | Perl / CGI Programming | | | CGI (Common Gateway Interface) refers to a veteran and versatile framework of server-side technologies that includes high-level programming languages such as C, C++ and most frequently, Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language). Perl is a general-purpose, interpreted, procedural programming language originally intended for text manipulation, but now used for a wide range of purposes such as system administration, network cofiguration, GUI creation, and of course, web application development and deployment. Most web servers are standardly equipped with a Perl interpreter. Perl is fast, efficient, powerful, robust, may be either compiled or interpreted as needed, and is completely cross platform.
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 | XML Programming | | | XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language used for creating custom and task-specific languages. XML is particularly useful for projects that involve exchanging data between separate and distinct applications such as batch processes and server-to-client feeds.
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 | Internet Database Design, Development & Programming | | | Database-driven web applications provide much greater efficiency, flexibility and forward compatibility than their hard-coded counterparts. Features such as online shopping, online catalogs, automated research assistance, and the distribution of personalized information require smartly designed information exchange mechanisms. Some of the database software programs commonly employed in conjunction with web-based systems include Microsoft Access (MS Access), Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL Server) and MySQL. These tools utilize Structured Query Language (SQL), which passes and describes data storage and retrieval commands between the database and the rest of the application. More complex systems that must manage very large amounts of data may utilize advanced technologies from companies such as Sybase and Oracle (the Oracle Database Management System, Oracle DBMS or Oracle RDBMS).
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| If you don't have a technology preference for your project, we'll help you select the tools that are most appropriate, flexible and scalable for your particular needs. For website development for businesses, advanced website programming services, Access database development services, and much, much more, trust Coastal Graphics Inc. to deliver economical and efficient solutions that will add the value of interactivity to your website. All services are custom-quoted based upon time, materials, project complexity, logistical considerations and requested turn-around time. Our office is located in the heart of DelMarVa (Del-Mar-Va) near Ocean City, Maryland, and serves the Mid Atlantic region and beyond. Our client service area includes (but is by no means limited to) Salisbury, Maryland and Dover, Delaware, as well as the Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia Metropolitan areas (including Northern Virginia, Annapolis, Wilmington and South Jersey). Contact us today to get started right away!
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