IHR - Website Development - Advanced Website Services

Beginning May 2009, IHR started offering Advanced Website Services which allows our clients to more easily connect with prospective (and current) patients and clients. Some comments about these services:

Feature	Comments
Content management	This may be the most valuable feature for you. You can update your own web pages, by simply using your browser. This is especially helpful when you have pages that change often, such as seminar dates or donor listings. Very secure. No one else can update the page unless they have a password. Also called "Content Management System" or CMS.
Collaborative authoring	Website can have multiple contributors, each with his/her own permissions to update certain sections of the website.
Blogs	You, and/or your associates, can do blogging on your website.
Message boards and forums	You can set up message boards for prospective patients to ask you questions Or you can use the message boards for only internal staff communication, that the public cannot see. Includes the ability to mass email all participants.
Polls	You can conduct polls with patients or with any visitor to your website.
Podcasting	Easy to set up.
Membership	Visitors can register on your website for any service you offer. You can collect their names and email addresses, or any other relevant information. With collected information, you might even send "happy birthday" email announcements to your patients.
Newsletter	You can send out newsletters to email addresses you've previously collected. IHR can this up on your website, however, the newsletter content would be supplied by the client.
News feeds	You can add a news page that automatically updates news on a daily basis. This fosters a website that is current with fertility news.
Affiliate programs	You can set up affiliate programs and pay other websites to send traffic to your website.
Search	It's easy to setup a search feature on your website. Ideally suited for large websites.
Online forms	Easy to add as many as you wish. Some examples: request for appointment request for further information preliminary egg donor application RSVP for an event, such as a seminar
Videos	A great way for users to feel more connected with your staff or to demonstrate a process. You can upload your videos to YouTube and then easily display those videos on your website.
Photo gallery	Easy to add.
Shopping cart	You can sell products and/or services on your website
Facebook integration	Easy to add links to Facebook and other social network websites, and vice versa.

IHR Advanced Website Services