Front End Features

Professional Design

Whether you choose a 'done-for-you' design or upgrade to a custom design, it's professional through and through. Each design is based on the I.D.E.A.L. system and is designed to drive more people to your door or get them to call you.

Home Page

Usually, a professional design comes with 2 page templates: (1) A visually intense home page, and (2) a less visually intense, more focused inner page. Here's an example. First, you impress them when they first find you; then you focus them and get them to call you or visit. The inner page needs to be a reflection of the home page as far as look-n-feel goes, but it's all about the words on the page at that point.

Contact Form

You'll have a dedicated 'Contact Me' form on your site. It has error checking to make sure you get good data & you can require as many pieces of info as you want, i.e., first name, last name, phone, email, comment, etc.
The form is easy to look at, easy to fill out, and will help people fill it out correctly by checking it as they go.
See 2 examples here

Private Lessons Page

This is one of your money pages. You tell them what you can teach, how you teach, what they can learn, how they'll feel, why they should study with you, etc. When they hit this page, you want to give them all the info they need to buy.

Unlimited # of Pages

Got an idea for a page that I don't have listed here? Just add it!
It's as easy as a few mouse clicks, and you're off to the races. Don't be limited by your website.

Search Engine Friendly Page Names

Getting the URLs of all your pages to be in a nice, readable fashion for Google is a cinch with the IDEAL system. If someone wanted to say, "Did you check out that picture of you at XYZ Dance Studio?" The address simple, "Just visit www.XYZDance.com/gallery".
A lot of sites are ugly URLs like this: www.XYZDance.com?id=123.
This is hard for the user AND for the search engines. We've got you covered.

Calendar Page for Your Classes & Events

We have 2 calendar styles depending on what you want. The first one is a traditional grid format that has class & event listings. The second one is a simpler listing of dates/descriptions. Either way, the calendar is customizable to your site design and will match seamlessly. Click here to view examples. The secret is we're using GoogleCalendar to drive the whole thing.

Newsletter and/or Autoresponder Ready

Connect with people. Your students, potential students, and fans will see a simple signup box on every page. They'll sign up for your newsletter and keep a relationship with you. Everyone can easily subscribe and unsubscribe to/from the mailing list on your website -all hands off to you. Your site works for YOU.

Photo Gallery

Let's face it, people love to look at pictures. It's a great way for them to feel more involved, be more involved, and share their studio experience with their friends and family. Current students love it, and prospective students love to see all the fun you guys are having.

See a screenshot here

Jack Rabbit Dance Integration (Optional)

Jack Rabbit Dance is industry standard studio management and payment processing for dance studios. Students can easily visit your site, sign up for a class, and then pay for it. Again, your site works for YOU.
Check out JackRabbit

Anti-Spam Emails

Safely display your email address on the website for people to contact you (like this: info@RealDealDanceWebsites.com) without worry about spambots sucking it up.
Making it easy for people to contact you is so, so important. What could be easier than clicking your email address and having it open up their email program?
In fact, if you wanted to contact me right now, just click the link above and see how it works. I'd LOVE to hear from you.

Address on Every Page

They will find your studio address on each and every page at the bottom. One, it let's your customers find you easily. Two, it helps Google know where you are so you show up when someone is searching for you in your city. See an example

City Names (if Applicable)

If you live in a town where you can pull students from several surrounding towns when they search on the internet, we can run a list of city names across the footer of your site. This helps Google determine where you are so it knows when to put you up when someone searches. And, it helps people living in those towns know they can come to you. See an example

Social Media Integration

Even if you don't know what it is, it doesn't mean your customers don't. Basically, it's a way for them to share your pages with any of their family or friends via social media web sites like Facebook, MySpace, Digg, and Yahoo. We make it very easy for them to share you with their friends - and they usually do.
See an example

GoogleMaps

Beside every address in your site, there will be a clickable link that will open up in GoogleMaps with the address to your studio. They can then put in their own home address and get customized driving directions to your studio.

Extra Features (small additional fee, great features)

Online Store

Sell stuff from your websites (shoes, CDs, Performance DVDs, Instructional DVDs, etc) without the hassle of a full blown eCommerce store. It's great because you manage your online store in the same place you manage your website. It's basically just adding a page, throwing in a price, a weight, and you're good to go.
Click here to see full details

Video

Have a custom video gallery that showcases your work. Better yet, you don't have to worry about paying extra streaming costs that video usually takes. We'll show you how to serve the video from Amazon.com at the rate of $0.150 per GB. (Read: A LOT!) In normal terms, that means you have a TON of people watching your videos on your site and it'll probably cost you less than $5.* Plus, the video gallery looks sweet! See a screenshot here.
*Note: Serving video from Amazon is absolutely the best way to protect your videos while giving them nice clear video. We've made the process as easy as possible. Also, there is no way for us to determine how much it'll actually cost you to serve video. HOWEVER, it's the cheapest of everything out there (believe me, we looked!).