Webhelio - Web Design and Development in Lee's Summit, Kansas City, Chicago

Site Launch: Pearson Basketball Basics (www.pearsonbasketballbasics.com)

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:27:00 -0400

Webhelio recently launched a website for Pearson Basketball Basics, LLC. This website was custom designed and developed from the ground up through the design and revision approval process. After being designed and developed, then we applied the great and easy to use content management system known as Joomla, after which we customized each module to fit the design and specs of the website. With more features to come in the next few months, this website will withstand the test of time and will prove itself as an enterprise level tool that Pearson Basketball Basics can use for many years to come. Coached by the great KU player Sean Pearson who played with the likes of Paul Pierce amongst other great KU players, you are sure to get your money's worth of basketball when you become a part of this sensational basketball program. We provided Sean and his company with the tools they need to maintain and update their website anytime 24/7, including posting announcements to the different categories of the website, member registration for interaction with comments and testimonials, and more great features to come such as social media integration and a community basketball forum where players and parents can communicate all things basketball. www.pearsonbasketballbasics.com

Site Redesign: Team Dolphins www.teamdolphins.com

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:00:00 -0400

We recently launched a new website along with a mobile version for the Kansas City swim club Team Dolphins, and also incorporated the Google Apps platform into the domain to give Team Dolphins their own email platform and calendar management system. This swim club is based in Blue Springs and Blue Valley and serves swimmers in and around the surrounding areas. The needs of this organization were to inform parents and swimmers of news and events that are taking place such as swim meets, practice schedules, calendars, and other related swimming information that pertains to the swimmers and parents of swimmers involved with the Team Dolphins swim club. If you are looking for a club swim team, this club has groups for novice, age group, advanced age group, and senior level swimmers, there is a group for any type of swimmer looking for a team. Check out the website at www.teamdolphins.com. This website was redesigned and delivered as a Joomla content management system and it uses a blogging system that allows for registered users to subscribe to the blog and receive announcement whenever a new blog is posted. The Google apps calendar system is tightly integrated, giving users the ability to view the Google calendar directly on the website. When management posts a new event to their Google calendar, it automatically shows up on their website as well. This gives the management team the ability to post calendar dates from their mobile device, or anywhere on the go. Through the power of the Joomla CMS, this website is ever growing and easy to update.

NEW! Mobile Website launch for WestSide Grill & Bar

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:25:00 -0400

What's the best way to build a mobile version of your website? Hire us to do it for you. Unless you have a specific function you want to provide your customers or clients, you don't need an "app" for the iPhone, an "app" for the Android, an "app" for the Blackberry, and so on. You need a universal mobile website that will function well on all mobile devices, including the iPad and tablet. Simply put, you need to encapsulate all of the functions of the desktop version of your website into a smaller site that is easy to view and use on any screen size. This isn't quite as easy as it sounds, but that's where we come into the picture. We can provide this service on a new or existing website and at a very affordable cost!

Curious what this might look like? Pickup your iPhone, or your Android, and take a look at www.westsidegrillandbar.com. What you will see is all of the content from the main WestSide Grill and Bar website but in a mobile format that gives you the ability to easily navigate and view everything just like you could if you were on a 20 inch desktop monitor. This includes the mobile blog, the drop-down menu system, and all other navigational and content features of the desktop website. If you are interested and looking for a great team of developers that can provide you with the best mobile web development services in Lee's Summit or Kansas City then Give us a call at 816.591.5571

Site Launch: WestSide Grill & Bar (www.westsidegrillandbar.com)

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:10:00 -0400

They will promote themselves by using their very own blog system that publishes their blog posts straight to their website, their Facebook page, and to their Twitter account... all with 1 click of a button! Easy, and highly effective, the way a website should work. Oh and did we mention their mobile version? Stay tuned... We have recently launched a new website for the best sports bar in Lee's Summit, the WestSide Grill & Bar. They have 2 locations in Lee's Summit, and both are fantastically decked out with crystal clear flat screen TV's and comfortable seating for the best sports viewing in the city. Webhelio has helped them get their 'internet act' together, by providing them with a cutting edge search engine optimized website complete with a simple content management system that will allow them to promote themselves. Check out the WestSide Grill & Bar and you can start by visiting their desktop website here: www.westsidegrillandbar.com. Every small business owner needs a website like this, a very cost effective and affordable project but with the makings of an enterprise solution. Look no further as Webhelio can and will provide you with all of these tools in a one stop shop fashion, as we have all of the knowledge in this industry that you need for hosting, development, and social media. Give us a call and let's get started!

New Advanced Blogging System for The Zen Zone

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:21:00 -0400

Webhelio has been working with The Zen Zone yoga studio in Lee's Summit for over a year now. After development of the new website, launching and using the website to centralize all of The Zen Zone's social media channels, we have now implemented an advanced blogging system and integrated it directly into The Zen Zone's website. The new system will allow for the business owner, Ruthann Zentner to post blogs about The Zen Zone at anytime 24/7 and when posted, it will automatically post a snippet of the blog and a link back to the blog entry on Facebook and on Twitter. What does all that mean? It means easier business management! Post in one place, not 3 different places, saving time to run the business, which at some point equals money. What else? Along with this new advanced blogging system comes the registration and account system. Each instructor or employee of The Zen Zone has been setup with an account that they too can use to login to the blogging system, and also post blogs. This means that The Zen Zone will have a lot of depth to their website, lots of content for their readers (or should I say yogi's)? Don't want your employees to release blog entries, but do want them to write so that you can review and release them? This new blogging system has the ability to do just that. Video? Yes. The system we setup allows The Zen Zone to simply place the YouTube link to the uploaded video, and it will automatically show up inside the blog entry. Again, simple and easy to use, yet very powerful feature set that drives traffic right back to The Zen Zone website. And you know what that means! Even better SEO! Subscription and Comments? Of course! A blog isn't a blog if you can't subscribe to the categories, bloggers, the whole blog itself, and all of the comments. The Zen Zone's new blog has all of that, and more. Check out the new blogging system here.. http://bit.ly/sFfxCL

Site Launch: Referral Leaders International (www.referralleaders.com)

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:47:00 -0400

Welcome to Referral Leaders International! Referral Leaders International is one of the fastest growing networking and referral organizations in the United States. And now, thanks to Webhelio, this company has their first version of a full-blown interactive website for their chapters and members across the world. Complete with all of the social networking components, membership registration system, advanced blogging capabilities, video, discussion forums, SEO, and more. The new RLI website will soon become the centerpiece of this fine company. What did it take to do this job? In a nutshell, a lot of experience. A lot of companies would have needed months of planning, time to find developers with knowledge and skills to perform different tasks, and a lot more time. In just 2 short months, we delivered the first version of this website. And we aren't stopping there, with the help of RLI Founder and CEO Timothy Chin, and President Sasha Poell, we have big plans to expand on the feature set of the website to include business coaching videos, coaching call podcasts, a dynamic chapter directory, and more interactive member features to be announced later. Check out Referral Leaders International. If you're a business, you better hurry because their seats are filling fast and you definitely want to get yours! www.referralleaders.com

SEO for the win! The Zen Zone ranks 1st in Google for "Lee's Summit Yoga".

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:51:00 -0400

Webhelio has done it again! We have taken our client The Zen Zone from the bottom to the top in Google search ranks using nothing more but best practices in web development. Our knowledge and expertise in this area truly outweighs our competition by nature, and our work speaks for itself. Give it a try, open up a Google search and type in "Lee's Summit Yoga" and you will see the number 1 listing is The Zen Zone

How do we do it? We wouldn't want to give away all of our secrets, but in reality none of this is a secret. It's just a best practice, or trick of the trade. Organically, by coding websites the correct way, taking advantage of the attributes at our fingertips, we are able to make this happen with little additional effort and no extra money from our client. Years of development practice building hundreds and hundreds of websites helps too.

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Twilio and Webhelio... A nice mix!

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:33:00 -0400

We've been running some sample apps using Coldfusion with Twilio, and.. how cool! Rather than bore you with code, I am just going to tell you what all it can do. First Twilio... Twilio allows developers to build applications that use the phone network to interact with people on landlines and cell phones all over the world. With just a few lines of code, we will have phones ringing. We can actually build applications that interact via text messages with a simple phone-number based API or our very own short code. Developers can now connect users across web browsers, mobile phones, tablets, and even traditional phones.

Why is this so cool? Because it allows us to use our existing web language and developer skills to build voice and SMS applications. And Twilio is a "pay as you go" communications platform, powerful and simple it let's us focus on what we do best. Leading companies like eBay, Intuit, and Salesforce have used web languages in tandem with Twilio's API to build industrial-strength voice and SMS solutions on the Twilio platform, launching the next generation of enterprise communication apps reliably and at scale.

How does it work? A user calls or sends an SMS to your Twilio phone number. Twilio receives the call or SMS and makes a request to the application. Your app receives that information and sends XML back to Twilio. Twilio executes those instructions and interacts with the user.

That's it in an nutshell! So think outside the box, save some money and let Webhelio work with you to leverage the power of the Twilio platform for your voice and SMS application needs.

Webhelio ranks 1st in Google for "Lee's Summit Web Development"

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:27:00 -0400

The best SEO in Lee's Summit? Possibly.. In less than 6 months we have gone from nobody, to the #1 Google listing when a Google search is run against keywords "Lee's Summit Web Development". Don't get us wrong, we have been around for more than 10 years, but we have never advertised or done any marketing for the business, everything has been word of mouth. To be quite honest, we didn't even take the time to design and develop our own website for many years! Why is this relevant? Because if we can do it for ourselves, then we can do it for you too.

Maybe you still aren't sure about this... Let me ask you a couple questions. Are you a business owner? Do you have the need for a website that can be easily found and is above and beyond your competitors? Do you want to pay less for a website, but still get everything that the more expensive companies claim to offer? If you answered yes to even just 1 of these questions, then we need to talk. By Webhelio being #1 in search engine ranking, it proves that we have the ability to help you do the same. We know the tricks of the trade, and can save you money in the process. How? Because we naturally put keywords, titles, labels, and other behind the scenes SEO tactics in place during the development process. We aren't trying to fool you into paying more. SEO (search engine optimization) is a natural extension of what we do... so rather than saying, you owe us X amount of dollars more for "SEO", we just say that it all comes with the overall package. We can provide you with the best SEO in Lee's Summit, at the most affordable price of $0. You will only pay for the price of development, as stated in this article, SEO is built into the development process already.

Whether you come to us to do the work for you, or another company, let this article help you ask the right questions. Ask your developers are they implementing simple SEO best practices as they go? Don't fall for the trick of, "hey now that we have developed your site, let's talk about SEO". It needs to be discussed up front, and it should be a natural extension, not an additional cost.

We take pride in where we live, Lee's Summit, and in doing so we want as many fabulous websites as there are businesses. Of course we would love to do every website in Lee's Summit, but let's be realistic, that is not possible. We can however write an article like this that will help all businesses, and even some development companies, get more for their money. If you are a business in Lee's Summit looking for a website, please give us a call if for nothing else a conversation to discuss your needs and determine what options your budget will allow. There are so many ways to turn, and it's important that you get the right help. We are the #1 Google ranking for Lee's Summit Web Development, and we want to make your business the #1 Google ranking too.

Amazon S3 for your data storage using Coldfusion and Java

Fri, 20 May 2011 03:14:00 -0400

I recently had the chance to work with Amazon's S3 services. If you don't know what S3 stands for, neither did I 4 weeks ago.. it stand for Simple Storage Solution, and it's Amazon's answer to Google but for a really tiny price (at least there is some kind of comparison there since both Google and Amazon offer all this "space"). I don't think that the difference in Google and Amazon have anything to do with price though, and this S3 system is really slick as are most of the Google products. The S3 is especially convenient though if you are storing large files, and large amounts of large files at that. Put your gigabyte's worth of images on the web now, because you can finally afford a host that will give you that much space at an affordable price.

Check out the pricing HERE.

As a Coldfusion and Java developer RIAForge has a great CFC to get you started. But to go a little deeper you might want to try the AWS SDK for Java, which you can fine HERE. Place the .jar file into the appropriate Coldfusion directory on the server, or ask your host to do it for you if you don't have control of the server. Now you can use the Amazon S3 services with the AWS SDK for Java API through Coldfusion by instantiating the Java object, and using the methods available to leverage S3 in a variety of ways.

In conclusion to keep it rather short (there's really a lot to talk about here if you think about it from a business standpoint), if you are in business and you pay for data storage even if it is just for a static website and email, you might be paying too much. Not only will you save money with S3 services, you will also have a reliable service and I think it's safe to say you won't "lose" your data by storing it with Amazon. An inexpensive content delivery network that is reliable and easy to use.

Site Launch: The Zen Zone (www.zenzoneyoga.com)

Tue, 03 May 2011 01:16:00 -0400

With the help of creative brainstorming and great choices that Ruthann Zentner and her daughter McKenzie Marston made during the design phase of this website development, we bring to you the new and improved www.zenzoneyoga.com.

A full-blown content management system makes the scalability of content on this website endless, leaving it with plenty of room for expansion and growth. And, the client has the ability to assign authors to individual pages of the website, allowing the instructors to manage their own pages (if they would like to). The blogging features of this website make it ultra SEO friendly, by using video blogging technologies, as well as standard article style blogging to produce SEO rich content quick and easy. This website is so fun, different and really makes use of nice imagery and creative layout!

Namaste!

Site Launch: Lee's Summit Deals (www.leessummitdeals.com)

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:55:00 -0400

We developed this community based website using a base of Joomla! and PHP with a MySQL database and then we married the whole thing with a Coldfusion based coupon management system that uses an SQL Server database. Our design started with a simple Joomla! template, and quickly transformed to the design and layout it is today with the help of some major customiztion work on our part to fit the clients needs. This website is really cool, it uses real world, enterprise level ingredients to form the foundation of a business/consumer e-commerce website. You won't want to miss this one especially if you live in Lee's Summit! Who Are We? Lee's Summit Deals is a local, Lee's Summit based website company started by local guys to bring Lees Summit businesses and consumers together in a way that has never been done before. We are the parent company, and we are based in Lee's Summit, MO. www.leessummitdeals.com Our Goal! Our goal is to develop, maintain, and support an interactive website for the community of Lee's Summit and surrounding areas where buyers can provide valuable feedback to businesses, and businesses can share great deals with buyers, quickly and easily through our website using social networking and other online venues. Leessummitdeals.com will become a one stop shop for locating businesses, downloading coupons, reading and writing reviews, interacting with other community users, and more! The Brief History... We formed the concept for Lee's Summit Deals in the late Fall of 2008. Not just a fly by night! Leessummitdeals.com is programmed to withstand the test of time, and we are committed to Lee's Summit. With the economy taking a down swing, our ideas were formed to cut business costs in the areas of printing and marketing, advertising and coupons. Watching the news, listening to researchers talk about the poor economy, we wanted to make a difference and not just sit back and take what was coming. Ideas were formed over the conservation of friendship, and our feeling was that if we can help in even the smallest way, then we would be doing our job to help boost the economy back on its feet. You Can Help! Now we are asking for your help! Consumers, let the businesses know you care and appreciate their hard work by providing valuable feedback to them. Businesses, reward your customers and let them know of all the great services and deals your business has to offer. Everybody, interact with each other and share with your friends the great deals and information you find on Leessummitdeals.com!

Site Launch: KC Sports Lodge (www.kcsportslodge.com)

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0400

We launched the new KC Sports Lodge website today! This website uses Joomla! for most of it's needs, with a lot of customization and content development. It's got a ton of info and we'll be expanding the feature set to include a sports discussion group, league reviews, and other interactive featured to be determined over time. Currently this new website will provide all the information a parent or athlete needs to know about the KC Sports Lodge, including step by step directions to the 70,000 square foot premise, registration information, rules, and much more. Visit the site and take a look around, share some pages with your friends using the social networking icons that are always readily available. We will continue to improve the KC Sports Lodge web presence over the course of time, and as always welcome any comments or suggestions from anyone! Thanks, enjoy! http://www.kcsportslodge.com

Site Launch: Evans & Company (www.evansandcompany.com)

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:47:00 -0400

This is a one of a kind custom designed and developed website for Evans and Company. We took a great design and brought it to life using custom Coldfusion code combined with Flash and Slideshowpro, complete with a simple but sophisticated custom built content management system to manage galleries, categories, and sub-categories. This website may look simple and clean, by design, but by nature it's a complex strategic marketing tool that Evans and Company can use to manage their client image galleries and show off their talents. Let Us Build it Better - For You. At Evans & Company, our goal is to make remodeling an enjoyable experience for you where superior service and outstanding quality create a lasting impression. We believe that remodeling is not a product, but an experience. When you select Evans & Company as your remodeling partner, we focus on delivering an efficient, well-managed project where the process insures that good design and thoughtful decisions result in true enhancements to your home that will create a lasting value.

Web Development

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:59:00 -0400

We do all types of Web Development ranging from small to large. Our main goal is to develop your website the way you envision it. And with a twinkle in our eye, we will strive to follow best practices and strategies that will organically move your site up in search results. We specialize in several ares of Web Development, so please bring any and all ideas to the tables, special considerations, future development ideas, and anything else you have hiding in your closet (ok maybe not). With this info we can give you a Grade A consultation on how to move forward with your website build. Here's a rough overview of how we do it: 1) Meet and greet, explore possibilities and ideas, gather thoughts and visions and get to know each other better. 2) When a direction has been determined, we will design first round 'look and feel' mockups for your new website. Or, we will show you were to look at hundreds of pre-formed design templates. Q: Which is better? A: Neither is better, it's all a matter of opinion and perception and what fits your budget determined by your overall needs. 3) Once mockups and designs are finalized, let the building begin! This could mean installing database for a CMS website, transferring package files, or taking a pure custom design and cutting it into HTML. 4) After the build comes the real programming, if necessary. If it's a custom website, we'll go through it and determine what areas you will need control over, and we will program those accordingly. If it's a pre-formed template site (i.e. Joomla) then programming will mostly involve the installation and configuration of plugins, components, and modules. 5) Testing, training, and more testing... 6) Launch your website! (i.e. schedule a content completion date, and launch date) Do you need more information? Check out our list of specialties (over in the left column), call us at 816.591.5571, or send us an EMAIL.