Additional Features That Add Life to Your website
QuickTime
VR and IPIX
Interactive
movies provide a quick and easy way to show off your property
from every angle. Visit our demonstration pages for more info.
Interactive
Virtual Tours
Taking
the interactive movie even one step further by combining photos,
videos, vr movies, and diagrams with elegant navigation makes
visiting your website almost like being there!
Interactive
Graphics
Sometime
a picture alone is not enough. We can design a logical and clean
interactive graphic that will highlight the important features
of your product or location, while keeping the user focused on
the main point.
Image
Libraries
With the increased interest in digital photography people want to show off
their work in a searchable, expandable image database. We offer a variety of
options to suit your needs including integration with e-commerce for instant
purchase and download of images and print fulfillment.
Flash
The
ultimate in multimedia effects, Flash is a technology that allows
you to create sites that are impossible to do with standard HTML.
Video Clips
Under
Watercolours supports streaming video and audio on
our servers and we've upgraded our QuickTime capability to produce
the highest quality streaming QuickTime video available. Nai'a
Cruises in Fiji, Cuan Law in the BVI, Lammer Law in Galapagos
and others have all found that using their existing video on
their website, provides an exciting new stream of information
to their potential and repeat customers. It's a great second
life for that video you produced several years ago because once
its in a digital format, its easy to cut out the outdated material.
Dynamic
HTML, Java Scripts and Applets
Many
of the special effects on websites are the result of Java
scripts and applets or dynamic HTML. We use a variety of interesting
effects on most of the sites we design. The possibilities here
are endless but we are providing several examples to give you
a taste of what can be done. We have license agreements with
several companies including Open
Cube for the use of navigation effects.
Animation
We
can create custom animation for your website, however we do
steer away from using the "canned" effects (like the
folding envelope to indicate an email link). These may be cute
the first time but very quickly goes from techy to tacky. When
used conservatively, animated GIF files can add a nice touch
without being too garish.
Guestbooks
You'll
see a lot of guestbooks on the sites that Under Watercolours
creates because we have found that your happy customers are also
your best sales people. Everyone wants to tell the whole world
that they have been on vacation in some exotic place and the
guestbook allows them to do this, while giving you and your staff
a heartfelt review. Several sites were guestbooks have been particularly
successful are:
Please note that due to the increase in guestbook abuse, many webmasters have removed them from their sites. Rather than let the spammers destroy this wonderful feature for our clients, we personally monitor all messages submitted for guestbook entry, so we can be sure that only legitimate entries are added.
Slide
Shows
A
picture is worth a thousands words. Especially in the travel
industry! So we like to include some kind of slide show on
the travel related websites we create. Out statistics show
that these are very popular among the web visitors. There are
many ways to set up a slide show. Click on any of the red dots
on our destination page to
see examples of both Flash and HTML slide shows.
Forums,
Message Boards
Another
feature available on all our websites, the bulletin board is
a threaded World Wide Web discussion forum and message board,
which allows users to post new messages, follow-up to existing
ones and more.
PDF
Documents - A Great Way to Put Your Catalog Online!
The
Adobe Acrobat PDF format allows you to print any document in
an electronic format that can be put online to be downloaded
and printed. The great thing about PDF is that the final printout,
no matter who prints it from what computer, will look the same
as the original was intended, and the end user does not need
to have the software that created it. This format is great for
maps, diagrams, newsletters, price lists, and even entire manuals. Download
a PDF map of the Fiji Islands.
website
Pages You Can Update Yourself
Now
it is possible to add a page or pages to your website that you
can access and make changes to directly from your browser window.
Passwords protect the page from unauthorized changes and the
process is very easy. This is a great option for those who "want
it now!" You can change the page every day if you like and
you do not need to know HTML programming or the assistance of
your webmaster.
Affiliate
Programs
Let
your referral earn money for you. Many websites will pay you
commission for links that come from your website and result
in sales for them. The affiliate program allows you to track
this.
Multi-lingual
Sites
When
you check your website statistics you'll find that many of your
visitors are coming from foreign countries. It is possible to
put your entire site, or individual pages from your site online
in multiple languages. We offer translations to Spanish, German,
French, Portuguese, and Italian. Asian sites are also available.
Interactive
Reservation Systems
Guests
can book online through an interactive reservation system directly
from your website.
E-Commerce
Solutions
Buying
and selling on the internet has become very well accepted and
with the implementation of encryption for the transmission
of sensitive data, the entire process is completely secure.
We offer a number of different combinations of packages for
those are interested in selling online.
