April 2, 2010

Commercial Door Manufacturing Web Site

As a new company, Commercial Door Manufacturing needs a web site that can grow with the company. The site must serve as the hub for all of their marketing efforts. Your Computer Lady provided the site design and implementation for the new site. To showcase their products, we created a simple FLASH or animated element at the top of the page. Visit the CDM site.

YCL also assisted in the creation of CDM's technical literature. See a sample cut sheet.

DAS Products

As a distributor for national roofing materials manufacturers, DAS Products needed a site to build their own corporate identity while promoting their manufacturers. They needed to take advantage of the wealth of information provided by the manufacturers about the products. Your Computer Lady assisted with the design and implementation of the very first site in 2001. In the years since, YCL has worked with DAS to update and expand the site as their company has grown. Visit the DAS Products site.

Hollow Metal Xpress Web Site

Hollow Metal Xpress wanted to create a web site that would provide a wealth of information to their clients. Hollow metal doors and frames may sound simple but there are a lot of variations, calculations and considerations in choosing the right product. HMX wanted to be the "go to" resource for their clients. Their site was designed with simple navigation to get the visitor to the information they wanted within a maximum of two clicks. The site was kept simple design-wise as many in the construction industry are still new to online research. The site was designed to expand easily as HMX added new products and information.

Hollow Metal Xpress uses the site as the hub of action in coordination with their email marketing campaign. PDF files or other documents described in the newsletters are stored first on the site. Thus each newsletter builds site traffic.

March 31, 2010

Microsoft Word 2007 - Add a Document Watermark

Have you ever wondered, “How can I mark my Word 2007 document as secret or confidential with a watermark?” A background watermark can help signify that your Microsoft Word 2007 document should be treated as "Secret", "Confidential", or is a rough draft.

Word 2007 has many options for creating watermarks. Although default watermark types are provided, you can also create watermarks with your own custom text or image. You can also tweak the watermark size, font, color, and how much the watermark will stand out from the document.

Follow these easy steps to put a watermark on your Word document.

1. Click the "Page Layout" tab in the ribbon at the top of Word 2007.

2. In the "Page Background" group, click the "Watermark" command.

3. You can either select a preset watermark, or you can click “Custom Watermark”

If you decide to do a custom watermark, you can either choose to create your own text (i.e. your company name) or you can choose to do a “washout” of an image (i.e. company logo).

March 30, 2010

Custom Metal Products Site Update

"Life-long clients" isn't just a buzz word for Your Computer Lady. We work very hard to maintain long term relationships with clients. Recently, Custom Metal Products learned the value of this principal.

CMP needed to update product cut-sheets that were featured on their web site.  YCL was able to go into our back up files to find the two year old cut-sheets. This saved time and cost since we didn't have to re-create the cut-sheets. The cut-sheets were updated and the site was updated within 48 hours!


Custom Metal Products product cut-sheet

Leo Buscaglia Site Update

For the fourth consecutive year, YCL has updated the Leo Buscaglia Foundation site! We are very proud of this ongoing relationship with a very worthwhile organization. Each year the Foundation makes grants to organizations across the US that support their mission of building community spirit. YCL updates the site to showcase the year's recipients. The Report to Contributors page offers links to each recipient to allow visitors to learn about each organization. The Home Page includes a FLASH of a selection of recipient logos.

March 29, 2010

Dyna-Tech Sales Email Campaign

Dyna-Tech needed to get information out quickly about some great new products. They scheduled 3 emails to spread the news.

Challenges:
  • There are actually 2 divisions within the company. So the email designs needed to be similar but   different.
  • The messages needed to go out in a relatively short period of time. Your Computer Lady used 3 different people to get the job done.

Not a Challenge:
  • Dyna-Tech is in Branchburg, New Jersey. Distance isn't a problem at all thanks to email and YCL's use of an online meeting service.
  • Your Computer Lady has specialists on call for graphic design and for HTML programming for special needs.
Samples:

February 19, 2009 Email
March 5, 2009 Email
March 11, 2009 Email