Updates to BDent.com

One of our clients , B & D Enterprises, has recently had us make more additions and updates to their website , including the addition of a new product set they have available from SanRex. B & D Enterprises is one of the Internet's largest and most popular sources for discrete power semiconductors, Power modules, Snap-In Electrolytic Capacitors, Axial-Lead Capacitors , Photo Couplers, Relays and a wide range of other electrical components.

protocol 80 on the Radio

This morning we had the opportunity to show our radio-friendly faces on WESB, a Bradford, Pennsylvania radio station, in a segment called the 'Live Line'. On the show, we discussed the tremendous opportunity for businesses and individuals in a small, rural area such as Northwestern Pennsylvania, to establish an International business presence through a variety of online business models.

We also had 3 of our clients involved with the discussion:

• Kevin Gaffney, Manager of Internet Systems at Zippo Manufacturing Company
• Dr. Kimberly Young, Psychologist and Director of the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery
• Dr. Bridgett Passaur, Director of Auxiliary Services at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

All three of them did an excellent job highlighting their specific online business models and showing how effective the web has been in growing their businesses. We have had a great time working with all of them and watching their online businesses grow, particularly in such a small, rural economy.

Look for a feature on our homepage with the audio from the excerpt in the coming days!```

Never Ending Alpaca Farm is now Live!

We are very excited to announce the launch of a new web site that we have been working on for some months now, NeverEndingAlpaca.com. The site is a great overview of the Farm and it's animals! The farm is located in Portville, New York, so we are just 30 minutes away, which made meeting very convenient. In this project we developed the entire design and flash content, and are also hosting the site.

Look for NeverEndingAlpaca.com to grow over time!

eBay is a Viable Business Platform, and protocol 80 will show why!

protocol 80 has the opportunity to give an introductory seminar on the basics of eBay with a business twist on March 21st and March 28th from 6:30pm-8:30pm. Registration for the class can be done through the University of Pittsbrugh at Bradford.

The class will focus on the basics of eBay and how to use it. There are so many advantages to using eBay, even if it is an extension of your current online offerings. Where else in the world do you have a captive audience, ready to buy?

protocol 80 to Develop an Asset Management System

One of our nicest clients, Belser Hale Excavating has an immediate need for a system to track and manage all of their large equipment and machines. The system we're developing will keep track of the maintenance history for each machine, and provide a to-do list of upcoming services based on service hours or mileage. The system will also track parts used during services and repairs, allowing the staff to quickly find needed parts when a new maintenance is being done.

As with any system, ease of use is a very high priority! We intend to develop this application using ASP.Net 2.0 (C#) and SQL Server 2005 Express. The reporting mechanism will be all written in .net and allow for various levels of data retrieval.

The system will have user management as well to secure the app and provide a level of accountability.

We are very excited about this application, and will provide an update when the system is in use!

protocol 80 Teaches Dreamweaver to Local Business Owners

On February 9th and 16th, protocol 80 gave a course through the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford on Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. The courses was an introduction to Dreamweaver, covering the very basics of creating a simple web site in Dreamweaver, and using the Dreamweaver environment to create and manage web sites.

The course was offered through the Business Resource Center at UPB as a non-credit course, targeted at small business owners and medium to large business employees responsible for updating corporate web sites.

The course covered basic text formatting through common HTML elements such as Headings, and displayed CSS as a mechanism for reusing text formatting and alignment. Basic forms were covered as was a very basic introduction to Flash.

This is just one of the many courses protocol 80 has given at UPB. Some of the other courses we've done include:

Your Business Online

• a managerial perspective to planning an Internet business
  
• Deciding to develop in-house or hire a vendor
  
• Warning signs that a project is going bad, etc..

Web Authoring Certificate Courses - End to end web design and graphic design for the web. Individual courses included:

• Introduction to HTML
  
• Advanced HTML
  
• JavaScript
  
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  
• Adobe Photoshop
  
• Search Engine Optimization
  
• Adobe/Macromedia Flash
  
• Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver

Roseart Lighter Company's Online Store is Now LIVE!

We want to send a big congratulations to the Roseart Company for the launch of their new online store! As you may have read in another pots of ours, we were able to achieve 50% reimbursement of the cost of the project through eBizITPA, and NWIRC.

The Roseart Lighter Company store has over 140 elegant and collectibe products to choose from! They make excellent gifts for any occaison! Again, congratulations to the Roseart Lighter Company!