Web Hosting And Design By Aristede.com

Websites That Matter To Virginia Voters—Let Us Create One For You 

Aristede.com principal Jonathan S. Mark has developed websites and web applications since 1998, initially as an employee of major corporations (DynCorp and Northrop-Grumman.) Debra J. Steppel has over a decade of experience in the information technology field, as an employee of Oracle Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton. That experience, coupled with her Masters in Public and Private Management (MBA-equivalent) from Yale School of Management, makes the Aristede.com team an unbeatable combination.

Since late 2007 Aristede.com has focused on developing content management systems and websites for private clients.

ALONG WITH YOUR CUSTOM-DESIGNED WEBSITE, WE PROVIDE:

• Planning services, including meetings with the client and/or staff as required, along with notes describing any decisions reached at these meetings
• A color-coordinated visual design which integrates client-supplied graphics materials into the overall look-and-feel of the website
• Installation and configuration of the website on the client-selected webserver
  
• Training and documentation
• Monitoring of the website after delivery for an agreed-upon number of months and assistance to the client’s staff in its operation. If Aristede.com is hosting the website then this monitoring will be extended for as long as Aristede.com is the host.

BASIC DESIGN FEATURES OF ARISTEDE.COM-DEVELOPED WEBSITES 

TWO-WAY COMMUNICATIONS WITH YOUR CONSTITUENTS

Your constituents can communicate with you directly by sending email from a form on the website. The form uses the website's own built-in e-mail server.

Constituents can also keep up with your activities by signing up for email updates from the client. These updates will consist of the most recent new articles produced each day, week or month on the website. If there are no new articles, then the constituent does not receive a message.

ONLINE FUNDRAISING

Your Aristede.com website can link to ActBlue.com or other secure funds-collecting mechanisms so that contributors can easily make a secure online contribution to your campaign.

EASE OF NAVIGATION

Users can navigate the website using a context-sensitive navigation panel and folder-like tabs at the top portion of the webpage providing further navigation options.

When searching the website users who have Javascript enabled on their browsers see a dynamically changing drop-down list of articles which changes as additional characters are typed.

 Tag clouds highlight topics of interest.

INFORMATION DISPLAYED IN MULTIPLE WAYS

You can post news, calendar events, photo albums and other content to your website. Constituents will be able to immediately see the titles of the most recent new articles and any future events by viewing sidebars on the front page. Events are also displayed in an online calendar which appears on your frontpage.

Constituents can also view your content using RSS feeds, without even visiting your website. This feature makes it easier for other websites to pick up your content.

You can post photo sets on your website. Constituents can select images to view by clicking on picture folders, which contain a sample photo, selected from the folder.

EASE OF MAINTENANCE

Your new website will provide state-of-the-art content management features. You will be able to easily add or update content. Simply assign staffers privileged user accounts so that they can modify the website. These users can have different roles. An intern, for instance, may have a role which permits her to add content, but a staffer with the role of Reviewer would need to Approve it before it appears to the public on the website.

You can choose to keep your existing domain names (URLs) and reroute them to your new website, or also use new domain names.

STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY

Aristede.com provides clients with websites using open-source (as in free) software. Open-source software powers millions of websites without the ongoing expense of software licensing fees. Open-source software’s advantages to Aristede.com's clients include cost, lack of a separate procurement cycle for software, and the availability of online documentation, help-forums, and updates.

Owners of websites implemented using open source software are not locked in to a single vendor or consultant. There is a large community of developers who provide support for Plone and other major open-source projects online or locally.

WEB HOSTING

At the client’s option, Aristede can also host websites that it develops on its own servers.