Website Development Testimonials

“Economic Development Marketing (EDM), an iGroups company, was chosen for the web site design because of their combined expertise in web design and business development.”

Dawna Allard, Manager, Central Alberta Economic Partnership

“Ninety-six percent of our 42 municipal elected officials and economic development officers rated the content, design and usefulness of the website as 'excellent' or 'very good.'”

Julia King, Chair, Central Alberta Economic Development Partnership

"You have been very easy to work with and very flexible in working with us throughout the campaign. We are very pleased with the results-you have delivered as promised.”

Peter Finestone, Director of Investment, City of Toronto Economic Development


"The Santa Maria Valley Economic Development Association would like to thank you for your dedicated attention to our Web site. You have been creative in your suggestions, thorough with your follow-through, and most importantly, immediately responsive to any requests.

You were quick to understand the nature of our business and translate the information into a useful, attractive Web site. You have always taken the time to explain each step of the process to us and have been willing to go into as much detail as necessary to answer our questions.

It has been a pleasure to work with you, and we look forward to a long relationship."

“During the design phase of this project, you and your organization showed incredible patience during our review and revisions of potential home pages, as well as, the implementation of the different links required for our customers. In addition to the professional manner that was projected through the project, the implementation and assistance for marketing the Commercial Properties Database was most helpful.

With your assistance, we were able to implement a property database for all commercial properties within Lincoln County. If ever you require a business reference regarding the timely, professional and economical product that your company offers, regardless if it is non-profit organization or business, I would be happy to be a contact for you.”

"The Liberty County Development Authority considers our new web site to be a tremendous success. I thank you profusely on behalf of the Liberty County Development Authority. We are looking forward to a successful 2003, thanks in large part to your efforts!"

I have been very impressed with how easy it is to update, add too, delete and create new content for the web page you set up for the City of Deming. I have really enjoyed working with you and appreciate your fast response to my questions.

I would recommend you to anyone who wants a web site set up for them and yet wants maintain the web site themselves. It has been a pleasure doing business with you.

We have developed many complete economic development agency Websites. Click on any of the links below to visit some of our customer websites.

Click here to view the many features we can offer for your Website.

Portfolio (following is a list of recent websites designed by EDM).

Central Alberta Economic Development

Antelope Valley Economic Development Alliance

Tomball Texas Economic Development Corporation

State of Minnesota - Bio Technology

Glendale, AZ

Henderson, NV

Kentucky4Windpower.com

Southeasternwv.com

State of Idaho

City of Toronto, Canada

Herminston, OR

Jacksonville, FL

Wind Solar California

Wisconsin

Custom Designed or Use Your Own
We can setup your website with your existing layout and design of a Group's website, or EDM offers a custom website design option. No matter how many features and tools a Group offers users, if the website does not “look”excellent and professional, it will not be effective. EDM has designed many Group websites that have won praise and admiration from industry professionals. EDM offers this service as part of the complete iPortal package if required.

Easy Online Editing
iPortal comes complete with an easy online editing program (content management). The backbone of the content management solution is a relational database which stores the data and organization of the website. The database is setup for the specific needs and project flow of each client.

Through a secure password protected area of the website staff or volunteers are able to easily manage web pages throughout the website. You have the option to add, delete or modify web pages in this area. You can easily search to find a page to modify by name, date last modified, type of page, date created or category.

Upon selecting a page to modify you can easily add graphics and photos, and change and add text through a simple-to-use web based form with no HTML or web design software (FrontPage, Dreamweaver or other) knowledge required. Upon submitting a new page or modifying an existing page the changes are automatically posted to the database and displayed on the website.

Following are the many optional features an Association or Non-Profit can choose from:

Online Member's Database
Members can go to a password protected area to update their own listing, and search for other members by category, region, specialty and more.

Business Directory
Users can search for and easily find your members or companies in the area by category or keyword through an online business directory.

Classified Ads
Members can post used equipment or excess inventory into the classifieds section of the website. This enables other members and area businesses the opportunity to more effectively buy and sale products online.

Real Estate Database
An online commercial Real Estate database is a must for any Economic Development related Association. The iPortal Real Estate Database enables Real Estate companies to easily add, edit and delete their commercial properties through a password protected administration area. The properties are then able to be searched and displayed automatically on the Commercial Real Estate area of the website.

Demographics/Community Profiles
Many Governmental and Economic related Groups must provide information on the communities they represent and serve. iPortal enables Groups to easily post and keep this information as fresh and up-to-date as possible.

List-Serve/E-Mail Broadcast
Users or members can sign-up to receive news and event information. Groups can easily send custom e-mails to their e-mail list through a simple-to-use list-serve/mass e-mail system.

Online Forums/Bulletin Boards
Post Question & Answers, employment opportunities, or create threaded discussions about any topic on the online forum and bulletin board.

Chat Rooms
Have an online meeting in your own online chat room.

Group Calendars/New & Events
Easily post and view organization events and news in an online group calendar and news module.

Polls/Surveys
Find out what your members think about key issues by posting polls and questionnaires.
Searchable Newsletters
Turn your newsletter into an online resource by posting articles to an online database where users can search by keyword or category.

Online News Feeds
Bring news feeds into your website filtered for your particular area of interest. Articles are posted to your website from leading news sources by title and description with an easy click-thru feature for full article display.

Links Directory/Search Engine
Offer your members and users a complete links directory searchable by keyword and category customized for your particular area of activity.

File Sharing
Provide your members with the documents they need by easily posting files to your site for easy download and sharing.

Job Bank
Your staff, or local employers, can post jobs available by field, category and geographic region through your own Job Bank.

PLUS
eLearning Modules, Web-based e-mail, Banner Ads System, Online Donations, Shopping Carts and more...