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Discounts We offer several plans and special  discounts for educational and great non-profit organizations.  Make Money Our new franchise and affiliate programs allow you to partner with us, earn money, and obtain several benefits and special discounts.  Training From time to time, we voluntarily offer FREE online classes and training. (CEI World customers). BestSellers Our pros-pective customer base builder Email Grabber, Secure Chat System, BUg-Other .Net, MassMailer, and our Intranet Plus are among others our Best Selling Products. Support Support is just one email away. But, if you are in a hurry, call us in the USA at: (713) 541-1920

Web development ...

Affordable Web Sites available

• Individual or personal. From $395
• Corporate presence. From $2995
• Discussion Forums. From $2995
• Technical support sites. From $3995
• e-Commerce sites. From $4995
• Intranet data/document sharing. From $4995

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Getting  on the Web

Should a Small Business Get on the Web?

The answer to that question is relatively simple. “Almost every business, -large or small-, is already in the Internet.” It isn't new anymore! It's fun! It's exciting! And it's not just for kids. The Internet, particularly in its graphic interface known as the “World Wide Web”, is the most important communication vehicle developed since the telephone.  And more importantly for the small business, the Web levels the playing field between small business and big business.

Let's look at the variety of commercial uses for the Internet: 

The Web is the best medium for advertising and e-marketing.  It offers significant advantages over traditional advertising media in that: it is dynamic, interactive and “inexpensive”. The Internet is making it possible for small- to medium-sized businesses to compete with the big guys.

Of course, as the Web matures, advertising rates for the most popular sites will increase. But, advertising is not the only way to make your business known via the Web. Search engines are another powerful and low cost way to increase awareness of your products and services. 

The Web is an important customer service tool. Did you throw away the TV guide this week? You can check out your local TV station's Web page for its weekly schedule or the network specials this week.

Have you ever wanted hard facts comparing natural gas to electricity? This type of information and much more is available on the web.

Soon you'll be able to schedule appliance repair times and make changes to your gas service account by sending an email, at your convenience, either during or after regular business hours.

Wouldn't you rather shop for a book, a gift, an electronic, or a new car from the comfort of your home, in the quiet time late at night after the kids are in bed? This is now possible in most areas of the country.

The Web allows you to communicate with your customers at their time and convenience. Don't you want to offer this level of service to your customers?

Network connectivity makes it possible for you to hook up your “local area network” (LAN) directly to the Internet. Who wants to do that? Lots of companies! For example, a “wide area network” (WAN) connection offers multiple simultaneous connections through a dedicated data line at a tremendous savings over individual modems and standard telephone lines. This makes your existing internal email addresses work as Internet email addresses. It also allows you to set up your own Web server with your own domain name, to provide volumes of information to existing and potential new customers, and to take orders on-line. 

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Affordable Web Sites

Most Web sites are developed for the general audience. But there are cases in which a Web site must be developed for a group of specific individuals. That is the case of certain Web sites focused on children, military personnel, professionals, students, associations, etc.

Most individuals are very eccentric as to the "Internet browser" they like use to navigate through the Internet. Some people, and perhaps the majority, use the Microsoft Internet Explorer, others use the Netscape Navigator, Eudora, MSN Explorer, and there are a bunch of other possibilities in the market, making the Internet adventure a broad spectrum of choices.

Unfortunately for us, the programmers, (and also for all information system designers), the more possibilities found to navigate the Internet, the worst programming scenario it is found to develop intelligent Web sites.

As many Internet browsers there are in the market, there are also a wide range of Internet Information Servers. Web sites in general, are developed taking in consideration both services hand to hand. That is, Internet servers (server at the corporate level) provide the information, while Internet browsers (client at the user's level) access the information.

Programming Web sites faces us with intrinsic algorithms developed for an Internet Information Server and also for the Internet browser of choice. We, programmers, hold tight the ultimate goal: to reach an audience regardless of the type of browser the user may decide.

But wait, it is not as simple as that, what works fine for one browser or Internet server, not necessarily mean it will work the same for others. In fact, each environment is radically different from each other. Objects, properties and methods differ substantially on every Internet server and Internet browser. 

Things get complicated again when developing for e-commerce sites as they require elaborated algorithms to access several types of data and several access methods.  Most Internet servers already provide the means to add support for some type of data handling. This feature alone demands a very good understanding of those components and the programming knowledge to use the necessary logic to make a Web page work as desired.

Rather than trying to know a little bit of all Internet Servers available in the market, which ultimately could be useless if it is not understood completely and correctly, we at CEI World / ISEC, develop mainly for the Microsoft Internet Information Servers (IIS), which is widely used and installed in all Windows Operating Systems. We also code for both browsers, the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

Thanks to the ADO/ODBC data access components available only in the Windows Operating Systems we can access a wide range of data types including: MS-Access, MS-SQL, MS-VFP, dBase III/IV/V, Oracle, MS-Excel,  Text and raw data of any type.

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