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SmarterStats Website Statistics Now Available

December 2, 2009

If you want to take your web presence seriously, having access to your website's traffic statistics is a necessity. These statistics give you insight into information like:

- Number of site visitors
- Number of page views
- Search engine referals
- Typical "paths" visitors take through your site
- Errors visitors are encountering when browsing your site
and much more!

SmarterStats is one of top-rated website statistics products on the market today, and BitSculptor has partnered with them to offer their full, enterprise-level package to our hosting customers for the low cost of $75/year.

One of our customer's favorite SmarterStats features is the ability to automatically email you weekly or monthly traffic reports.

Many of our customers use Google Analytics, which is a great product for the price (free) but it is a well-known fact that Google Analytics, as a third-party statistics service, isn't as accurate as a service hosted on your actual web server. In our research, we've found that Google Analytics typically misses 15-25% of your website's traffic. SmarterStats, on the other hand, doesn't miss a thing.

Interested in using SmarterStats? Contact us today!

Try the SmarterStats demo here

Posted 12/2/2009 in Products/Services

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Updates Posted to Website Portfolio

July 16, 2009

Mechanics always drive old clunkers, and website developers always have outdated websites. Why? Because we're so busy working on everyone else's stuff!

We just updated our website portfolio, adding a good number of new projects from the past couple years. We realized that the list of sites is getting rather long, so we also created a handy feature which lets visitors "filter" the list of sites by industry and/or feature, so you can view all real estate websites which include integrated mapping, for instance. Check it out!

Visit the Website Portfolio >

Posted 7/16/2009 in Products/Services

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Microsoft Exchange Hosting Service Announced

July 1, 2008

We are happy to announce our new Microsoft Exchange Hosting Service.

Microsoft Exchange has been used for years by many business customers who are looking for more functionality than standard "POP" mail provides (Microsoft Exchange allows your office to share your calendar and contacts list, among other things).

Until now, many of our customers were forced to host an Exchange server in-house in order to have this functionality. This is a fairly expensive (and risky) proposition since you have to pay for IT staff, server hardware and software, and run the risk of server downtime and lost email.

Our new Exchange Hosting Service is competitively-priced to reduce your overall Exchange Hosting costs, while improving reliability.

Learn more about our Exchange Hosting Service >

Posted 7/1/2008 in Products/Services

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BitSculptor announces Postini spam filtering option

September 24, 2007

BitSculptor is happy to announce that Postini, an enterprise-grade spam and virus filtering solution, is available on a per-mailbox basis to our hosting customers.

BitSculptor's president Eric Schlange had this to say about the new Postini option: "BitSculptor's hosting services use a variety of tools to stop spam and virus emails before they ever reach our customers, and while these tools filter out most of the spam, enough gets through that some of our customers have been asking us for a “beefier” spam filtering tool. I've personally tested Postini extensively on a variety of accounts, and am happy to say I'm sure our customers will be more than satisfied with the results they get with Postini."

We’ve been evaluating spam filtering solutions for our customers for the past several months, and have chosen Postini for these reasons:

- Postini stops virtually ALL spam and virus messages from ever reaching your inbox
- Postini lets all the good messages through (virtually no "false positives")
- Setup is quick and easy (no changes required on our customer's end)
- Postini priced very competitively (similar solutions often cost $50-$60/year/mailbox)

Pricing:
Cost for Postini is $25 per mailbox per year. No setup costs! We believe the benefits of Postini far outweight the cost, given how much time many of us spend wading through spam. If you could eliminate spam, would it be worth $2/month?

Money-Back Guarantee:
We're convinced that you'll be very happy with the results of using Postini, but if you aren't, we'll gladly refund your money as long as you cancel within the first 30 days of using it.

Ready To Get Started?
Send an email to support@bitsculptor.com or give us a call to get Postini set up on your account(s).

Posted 9/24/2007 in Products/Services

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BitSculptor's email marketing application provides an end-to-end email marketing solution for your web site

June 26, 2006

BitSculptor has completed the development of our powerful email marketing toolset. Built to run in an Windows server environment using a SQL Server or MS Access backend database, these tools provide the core functionality to easily build, maintain, and effectively utilize email marketing for small or large email lists.

Posted 6/26/2006 in Products/Services

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Delivering content to user's desktops - podcasting tools rolled out for church web sites

September 1, 2005

BitSculptor recently implemented podcast creation tools for two of our church web site clients (Riverside Community Church and Bell Shoals Baptist Church).

What is a Podcast?
"Podcast" is just Apple's well-branded term for an audio broadcast using RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a common Internet technology which allows you to subscribe to content "feeds." This content is then downloaded to your computer or MP3 player automatically, allowing you to browse new information (or new audio) without making you go online to seek it out. Essentially, the beauty of podcasting and RSS is that the web comes to you.

Why Podcast?
Churches who regularly post message audio files on their site can increase their exposure and overall listening audience by podcasting their audio. Podcasts can be added to popular directories, giving churches exposure in otherwise untapped areas. Podcasting also helps ensure that your content (in this case, the message audio) reaches the listener's computer, instead of waiting for the listener to take the initiative and download the audio themselves.

How Do You Create a Podcast?
BitSculptor's new Podcast creation tools make podcasting a breeze. Coupled with other tools in our OAF toolset, creating a podcast is as simple as selecting an MP3 file from your computer and uploading it through our simple forms-based interface. The complex work of creating an XML file, saving the MP3, etc is done by our code in the background.

View Riverside Community Church's Podcast Page

Posted 9/1/2005 in Products/Services

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Announcing enhanced search engine optimization services

July 6, 2005

Visit our search engine optimization page for more information.

Posted 7/6/2005 in Products/Services

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Powerful, custom site search tools unveiled

March 8, 2004

We are excited to announce the availability of our custom site search tools to our web site development clients. These tools let your site's visitors search your site by keyword(s), effectively placing every page of your site at their fingertips. Our tools have been under development for over a year, and we honestly believe that they offer a solution that is second to none in price and performance compared to other search solutions available today.

You can test the search tools on several of our live sites, including:
Lake County Board of REALTORS®
Riverside Community Church
Enviro-Safe Refrigerants, Inc

Sitewide search tools are very helpful, especially on sites with a high number of pages. They offer an easy way for your visitors to find out if certain content is in fact on your site. Additionally, site search tools are useful to you, the site owner, because searches are logged, allowing you to find out what people are looking for!

Most site search solutions on the market today suffer from one of two issues. First, they may charge a monthly or yearly fee in order to keep your search indexes up to date. This cost can run into the hundreds of dollars per month, especially on sites with a high number of pages. The second problem that many site search tools have is that they do not index site content properly--they may not index content which is stored in the site's databases, or they may only search the content found in those databases (but not the rest of the site's content)!

Our search tool overcomes both of these obstacles. First, the only cost incurred is only a one-time setup fee of $150. Secondly, ALL of your site's content is indexed, including PDFs, Word documents, and more.

Contact us today to have us set up sitewide search tools on your web site.

Posted 3/8/2004 in Products/Services

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Rich text editing capabilities added to OAF site administration toolset

February 1, 2004

We are proud to announce the addition of rich text editing to our already powerful OAF site content administration toolset. This gives our clients the ability to easily format the text placed on their sites by changing font face, size, color, etc in an interface very similar to MS Word and other industry-standard word processors.

Unlike many online rich text editors, ours is platform and browser independent, allowing both Mac and PC users, using Netscape and Internet Explorer, to maintain their site's content in a rich text enviroment.

Here is a screenshot of our tool in action:

Posted 2/1/2004 in Products/Services

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CCCS Intranet migration to secure Internet site will increase functionality, lower costs.

March 25, 2001

With an high level of unanticipated growth in their clientele, CCCS Peoria has chosen to partner with other satellite credit counseling offices to work with American Family agents and clients. This necessitates moving the original Intranet site to a secure Internet site to allow for global access and enhanced features.

Cost savings will be realized by eliminating the need for an Internet server and subsequently eliminating the need for the Intranet support staff. Using BitSculptor's powerful hosting package options, a custom Internet hosting plan has been created which meets CCCS' needs while dramatically lowering costs.

With the addition of satellite office users, and the possibility of more satellite offices to come, BitSculptor will be enhancing the user database on the site to allow for more advanced user logging to track the actions of employees on the secure site. Other planned enhancements include dyamic online faxing, enhanced database reporting, and improved security strategies to meet the challenges of hosting a secure web site on an unsecure Internet.

Posted 3/25/2001 in Products/Services

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Secure online ticket sales storefront completed in just 5 days.

March 14, 2001

Lincoln Square Theatre of Decatur, IL was faced with a problem--they were hosting a Rick Springfield concert in August of 2001, and were unable to keep up with the high volume of ticket sales calls. Lincoln Square Theatre is a non-profit organization, and as such, office staffing is minimal. The Theatre already had a basic web site in place--BitSculptor's job was to integrate a custom ticket storefront into that site.

BitSculptor completed a customized, completely secure online tickets sales storefront in just 5 days using rapid application development methodologies and best-of-breed encryption technologies including SSL and S/MIME encryption. The ticket sales area is completely secure and integrated into the rest of the Theatre's web site, providing a seamless storefront where visitors can learn more about the Theatre and easily purchase tickets online.

Posted 3/14/2001 in Products/Services

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White Oak Nursery sees a 35% increase in sales due to new e-commerce solution.

May 15, 2000

Cookie-cutter software creates cookie-cutter sites. This was very evident when observing the design quality and usability of the White Oak Nursery web site prior to April 4, 2000. Prior to this date, a UNIX-based perl script had been used to manage the e-commerce backend of the site. But as more and more items and features where required on the site, more and more customization was required.

It was decided that a re-development of the e-commerce backend would be the most effective solution to the cookie-cutter problem. With that in mind, BitSculptor developed a custom, scalable based solution which saw an immediate increase in sales. After the 2000 season's numbers were in, White Oak Nursery saw a 35% increase in sales when compared to the previous year's selling season with the older backend software.

Future plans for the site include gift certificate capabilities and a full-featured, web-based  administration area where White Oak Nursery can manage their online store.

Posted 5/15/2000 in Products/Services

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