Blackbox World

Web Design

mike — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:50:52 +0000

Blackbox provides complete web application and site design, development, and hosting solutions for small to mid-sized organizations using web standards, industry best practices, and the highest quality open source software.

Design Services

•    Web application & site wire-framing and mock-ups
•    Standards-compliant XHTML & CSS layout & style
•    Graphic design & logos/logotype
•    User interface design
•    Multimedia & interactive design:
o    Photography
o    Adobe Flash
o    Video
Development Services

•    Web application & site backend development:
.    PHP development, including: Wordpress, Drupal & Joomla
•    Front-end development: JavaScript + jQuery & other libraries
•    Relational database administration
•    XML design & development

Social Network Websites

mike — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:44:48 +0000

Blackbox can help your business build a social networking website that will allow you to create your own online network and let your users/customers build social profiles, manage content, build blogs, upload photos and videos, search and connect with other users, message and chat with each other, create groups, leave comments and much more.

The social networks we build are totally custom and unique. Every social networking site is built from the ground-up based on extensive planning/architecture/documentation and for usability and power.

Here’s a general feature sampling for a social network:

•    Custom professional design (including layout, navigation, header/footer, styles, formatting, logo, etc…)
•    Search engine friendly coding
•    Multi-browser compatible
•    Membership sign-up
•    Member admin panel
•    Share text, photos, flash, videos, songs, files
•    Tagging
•    Advertising Module
•    Messaging
•    Message Board
•    Calendars
•    Weather
•    Statistics
•    Blogs
•    Chat
•    Polls
•    Newsletter
•    Events
•    User profiles
•    User awards
•    Commenting
•    Moderation
•    Metrics / Ad Stats
•    Privacy Controls
•    vLogs
•    Groups
•    Friends
•    Photos
•    Dynamic Content
•    Content Management w/WYSIWYG functionalities
•    Ratings
•    RSS
•    Widgets
•    Forums
•    Search
•    Videos
•    Billing
•    Keyword Advanced Search
•    General Search
•    Automatic Notifications & Reminders
•    Facebook Auxillary Application
•    Mobile Version
•    SMS/Text Message Support

Creativity & Design

mike — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:00:19 +0000

Blackbox is an Oregon based agency specializing in website design and development. We create custom, strategic and high-quality web sites that move your audience to action. Our goal is to create distinguished, easy-to-use websites that ensure a top-quality online presence for your business. We understand that a website is more than just creating a visually appealing placeholder for your business. Our designers and web developers use strategic placement, prominent use of colors and images, search engine optimization and marketing to give you a dramatic increase in traffic to your website.

Social Networking

mike — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:56:14 +0000

Social media, social networking, Web 2.0, new media. There are lots of words and terms flying around about social media that are hard to make sense of or understand. Blogging? Twitter? Facebook or my MySpace? Digg or Delicious? Blackbox has extensive experience working with social media forums. We’ll develop and implement a plan that’s appealing to your brand’s target demographic. This strategy may include website optimization, blog interaction, social bookmarking, MySpace and Facebook marketing, blog marketing & search engine promotion campaigns. We work with professional writers to write articles and press releases announcing unique features of your social networking website. Blackbox’s experience is in using the power of social media marketing and creating cost-effective, measurable, and viral campaigns that build your brand and spread ideas in the world of Web 2.0.

Strategy & Marketing

mike — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:39:32 +0000

Blackbox’s marketing services integrate knowledge of web culture, social networking, online marketing and consumer generated media marketing to create a strategy that gets your business participating in the social media phenomena. With Social Media Optimization (SMO) we can create an effective social media campaign that will attract and engage your visitors in a way that organic search results and regular advertising can’t. An effective social media strategy is focused on attracting visitors to relevant two-way conversations about your products, services, industry, or brand and increasing the volume and richness of those conversations.

Our social media strategy development consists of:

• Search Engine Reputation Audit
• Social Media Keyword Research
• Blog Audience Development

Blog Development & Design

mike — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:32:35 +0000

We create custom blog designs that are primarily built on the WordPress platform. When we design blogs, our priority is to match your existing brand standards and make it easy for visitors to navigate your site. During the development stage we will setup your RSS feed, create author accounts, set permissions, install appropriate WordPress Plugins and add links your blogroll.

The Benefits of Blogging

Blogs have become standard marketing tools for Businesses, Artists and Non Profits. We fully custom design blogs and can even integrate blogs into existent websites. We will launch your new blog design, recommend the best platforms and provide How-to blog information.

For professional blog design, blog marketing, blog integration and essential blogging tips
•    Position Yourself as an Expert
•    Gain an Insight into Your Customers
•    Provides Easy Access to Company News
•    Increases Search Engine Traffic
•    Appear Authoritative
•    Appear Accessible
•    The Fastest Way to Publish
•    Increase Your Reach
•    Relationship Building
•    Establishes Branding
•    Media & Public Relations Tool
•    Reputation Management
•    Competitive Differentiation
•    Exploit the Niches

Wordpress Themes & Custom Designs

mike — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:33:58 +0000

We build custom blogs to help you grow your online community and get your message to your customers. Blackbox has extensive experience using Wordpress giving you the most functional and user-friendly options for getting your blog live with an eye on design and simplicity. We can make your Wordpress blog a stand-alone website or blend seamlessly with your current website.

Custom eCommerce Websites

mike — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:36:34 +0000

Blackbox can help you with your eCommerce needs. From simple solutions like paypal payment buttons on your website to storefronts built into Wordpress and Joomla all the way to complete store managers, our team can get you selling online. Your store can include inventory management, shipping management and automation, payment processing integration, and a database driven catalog system. We can create custom shopping carts, or customize open source or pre-configured shopping cart systems and integrate them into your website.

Product Catalog

• Complete Catalog Manager
• Product Import/Export
• Customizable Product Layouts
• Sale Prices & Discount Display
• Add individual products to pages
• Add categories to pages

Shopping Cart

• Integrated shopping cart
• SSL security for all orders

Store Management

• Product Search
• Integrated Store Manager
• Customized Shopping Cart
• New Orders Display
• View & Process Orders
• order tracking

Order Processing & Payments

• integration with payment services
• custom payment methods
• PayPal supported
• purchase orders

Custom MySpace Design

mike — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:37:54 +0000

BLACKBOX specializes in professional MySpace layout design with a focus on graphic design and branding, Search Engine Marketing, and Online Marketing. MySpace is not just a place where your kids hang out, but a place where many companies reach out to an audience of over a 100 million users everyday. In addition to your own website, MySpace works as a microsite directing users to your site and gives you the benefit of networking and marketing in an online community where your customers spend a lot of time.

MySpace is one of the most visited sites in the United States. Therefore, it’s important that your product or service is represented on MySpace with an eye-catching, professional, and unique MySpace design.

BLACKBOX can help your business get integrated into the MySpace marketing network. Whether you are a small business, a band, an organization or just want a swanky personal page, we can help you reach the next level on MySpace.

Social Media Marketing & Optimization

mike — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:39:07 +0000

Blackbox has extensive experience marketing through social media forums. We’ll work with you to develop and implement a marketing plan specific to your target demographic. These strategies typically include website optimization, blog interaction, social networking and bookmarking, MySpace, Facebook and Twittter marketing, blog marketing & search engine optimization and promotion campaigns.

Social Media Marketing (SMM)

Blackbox will help you undertand this new marketing phenomenon and show you how to best use social media. We’ll integrate our knowledge of web culture, social networking, online marketing and consumer generated media marketing to create a social media strategy that will get your business participating in social media quickly and efficiently.

We’ll create social networking accounts, blogs, viral videos and social bookmarks for you. Social media marketing will direct traffic from your social networking microsites, as well as increase your search engine traffic. An effective social media strategy is focused on attracting visitors to relevant two-way conversations about your products, services, industry, or brand and increasing the volume and richness of those conversations. We have experience dramatic results taking advantage of social media for our own sites as well as our clients so we highly recommend these services:

• Social network advertising, account creation and page customization on site such as MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.

• MySpace, Facebook and Twiiter marketing and professional design of your MySpace and Twitter page. Create custom Facebook group and Facebook page.

• Custom blog creation, design and marketing .

• Social bookmarking campaigns on social bookmarking sites such as digg and delicious.

• Viral marketing campaigns, email campaigns, videos, social widgets, social applications, facebook applications & more.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Optimizing your website is by far the most cost effective internet advertising solution. Search engines are a very important component of web-based businesses. We’ll optimize the content of your website including, meta tags, copy, links and images to increase targeted internet traffic. We research search statistics that will connect interested viewers to your page. From there, we develop strategic keyword phrases to reach your target market.