SmartSites™ is COGNITION’s response to clients that are attracted to our high-end custom web design and development, yet need a more affordable option. Over the years, we have specialized in creating award-winning web designs that are user-friendly and visually compelling.
Now for the first time, clients can select a COGNITION designed SmartSites™ Design Style that incorporates online best practices. The chosen Design Style is customized with your brand identity and utilizes a host of powerful features that put you in control of your new SmartSites™ website.
To sum it up, SmartSites™ delivers an affordable, attractive website, an easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) to add or update your content, lots of multimedia/functionality options, and the ability for your website to be more easily found by search engines. All of this is made possible with SmartSites™ state-of-the-art programming and progressive design.
Here are a few of the benefits:
- Price: SmartSites™ offers an affordable alternative for businesses and organizations on a tighter budget who still want an excellent website.
- Time: SmartSites™ development time is greatly reduced from that of a typical custom website project.
- Design: SmartSites™ provides a variety of professionally designed websites to choose from that can adapt across an array of different industries.
- Preview: SmartSites™ allows clients to see what they’re getting up front, and all along the way, as you populate content and organize your site.
- Flexibility: COGNITION can custom-develop special features to add to your SmartSites™ website to meet any specific need, or integrate a custom-designed website into the SmartSites™ CMS platform.
Features & Enhancements
Content Management
Want to add content, a new page or even reorganize your navigation? No problem. SmartSites™ CMS allows you to instantly change text and pages, or create new material easily, with no web programming skills required.
Blog
Want to share your thoughts, build your expertise and foster site visitor interaction? SmartSites™ comes with a complete blog that’s intuitive to create and control.
Social Media
Are you getting more social? Whether it’s Facebook, Linkedin, or Twitter, SmartSites™ makes integrating your social media simple.
Event Calendar
Got it going on? Make sure people know about it by using SmartSites™ Event Calendar to promote upcoming activities.
Email System
Like using Constant Contact? Then you’re going to love the SmartSites™ Email System that provides various sized templates, multi-list management, and custom designed templates to match your brand and website.
Image Rotator
Dynamic animation can transform a home page from ordinary to extraordinary. This SmartSite™ enhancement gives you the ability to create your own image rotator, complete with copy.
Image Galleries
Showcase your images in a big, beautiful, gallery presentation with SmartSites™ lightbox integration offering hover effects and automatic resizing to fit images as the viewer clicks through.
Donations & Payment Systems
Online business grows stronger every year. Are you leaving money on the table by not providing your website visitors with the ability to process transactions? COGNITION can change that for the better.
iPhone & iPad
1 out of 2 American adults will have a smart phone by the year’s end. COGNITION hand-builds mobile versions of websites. How will your website keep up with this changing “on-the-go” consumer behavior?
Stat Tracking
SmartSites™ allows clients to enter Google Analytics into their websites for behind-the-scenes insight into real time traffic counts and visitor behavior.
SEO Empowered
SmartSites™ websites are built for natural search engine optimization. Things like clean url’s and page titles, and the ability for you to enter key words or make frequent updates all work to improve your site’s search engine results.
