You always thought getting a website for your business is very cumbersome, expensive and involves talking to geeky people.

And you always hoped there was an easier and inexpensive way for this.

AND HERE IT IS.

ExpandSites.com is exactly what you need to get you up and running on the web in simple 1-2-3 steps. This is part of Houston Web Design Solutions.

Pick your Design

Browse around the site to pick the design for your business. Check ‘Live Previews’ to visualize the website in action in available colors. Feel free to let us know if you are looking for any design to fit your industry’s need.  We are always working on new designs and could bring a design that fits your need from our product pipeline.

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Business domain name

We can register the domain name or use the existing one. If you don’t have one, check for domain name availability here. We will follow up with you in a phone call to get this information.

Go live with Hosting

We will setup the website on your domain name with Content manager and send instructions on how you can edit, and publish your website’s content. This is when we will set up the monthly recurring payments for the hosting.

Now, don’t you feel relieved? So, why wait? Get started today to get your website.

Our Packages:

Silver Expand – $550

This is a part of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) package. The design has easy navigation, simple layout, and cleaner look. You can change the content of the website using the content manager. The designs can be bought by other customers.

Gold Expand - $750

This is a part of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) package. The design has trendy graphics, colors, and brighter presentation. You can change the content of the website using the content manager. The designs can be bought by other customers.

Platinum Expand - $1000 (MOST POPULAR)

This is a part of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) package. Along with the latest trendy high res graphics, this design also features multi image slide show. This Jumpstart is recommended to most of the businesses. You can change the content of the website using the content manager. The designs can be bought by other customers.

Premium Expand - $2500

The design is built from scratch for your business only, and is not available to anyone else. Also comes with Social media feed integration, slide show, image gallery, 10 pages etc with $240/6months maintenance and hosting.

What’s included in the bag?

All our websites come with:

• Design
• Basic SEO
• Webmail (CPanel)
• Content Manager
• Domain name (optional)
• Hosting priced monthly

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Please feel free to contact us for any website design customization services.

We are just done presenting a ‘Business Website Solutions’ seminar that’s hosted by SCORE HOUSTON. The seminar is on ‘Web Design & Website Solutions’. It was a great feeling to present to such an enthusiastic and interactive audience. The seminar was attended by about 50 to 60 small business owners around Houston, The Woodlands, Tomball, Kingwood, Spring areas.
Here are the Presentation details:

Introduction

In a world of online dominance, it has become highly important that the businesses take drastic measures to build a strong, bolder and effective online presence. The Websites are still the landing pages and are the first tool for marketing your business. Check out different solutions that are available in the market to directly implement for your business model and online needs. The information is more for educational purposes and could be used when evaluating different options for solutions. For further customization and more information please contact me.

Topics covered

• Top 5 reasons why you need a Website
• Website in 5 steps
• Online Buzz
• Static Website
• Content Management Solutions (CMS) (Joomla, CMS Made Easy, Drupal, WordPress, TextPattern)
• Blog (WordPress)
• E-Commerce Solutions (Online Store) (ZenCart, PrestaShop, Magento, Joomla, WordPress)
• E-Learning System (Moodle)
• Have you spread the word out?
• Let there be a website

Audience’s response

• Very good intro material; good explanation of what is going on and why its important
• The concept of integrating social media into website to increase web presence
• Very useful whether just starting or established business. Presenter was engaging and I will check out his business when I am ready to move from research to implementation
• Navigating thru Fb and actually seeing Siva’s page
• Overview; where to start and why
• Social media stats; importance of branding; give them more than static content
• New vocabulary; optimization

When I present my seminars on Social Media Branding and Marketing, one question keeps coming up from the audience. “Can we weave all the Social Media, Blog feeds together with my current website?” My answer: Absolutely! Your website still is the welcome or landing page for most of your visitors.

Website and Social Media Integration for Optimization

If you have a Word Press Blog, Facebook fan page, a Twitter profile, YouTube Channel, Flickr account you want all that feeds flow back into your visitor’s welcome page so you can serve them with most current information. The Social Media Integration also makes your website very dynamic with updates fed from various Social Media sites. This creates a key marketing strategy building heavy duty Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

RockStarsRock.com – A Website & Social Media Integration Success Story

Aly & Andrea are identical twins, motivational speakers, and strength-focused leadership coaches with an emphasis on live-event presentations that inspire, educate, lead, and empower audiences to not only survive adversity, but to thrive in it. And you will get the change you are looking for because they don’t just deliver the message– they LIVE it.

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Rock Star U‘s entire business branding, marketing and growth is Social Media centric. Aly and Andrea are exceptional bloggers and very active on Social Media. Hence, they have a critical need to integrate Social Media into their business Website. When we were approached for the Website redesign service (we actually design and maintain all their websites and blogs) we also included this aspect to bring in their Social Media feeds in real time. Now, their website serves their Company profile, Services and also latest feeds from their Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Blog sites.

What Aly and Andrea are saying?

Aly Calvo
Aly & Andrea– Rock Star U

Siva at ITVibes is fabulous! Nothing gives peace of mind like knowing that our online presence and our brand is being cared for by a true expert who genuinely cares about building a great product to uphold the branding of our business! Our vision is his vision, which makes for a great working team. And. whenever we need to take care of website updates, content changes, or even back-end adjustments, Siva is just a phone call or an e-mail away! Thank you!

Andrea Kulberg
Aly & Andrea– Rock Star U

Project EdieMcRae.com

Edie McRae is a Social Media Networking Specialist. We initially worked on her Millionaire Moms Inc. blog migration and maintenance. When Edie wanted to grow into a new identity and branding we worked together to brand her as new “Edie McRae”. And of course, it’s just the new looks, but she is still her!

Edie’s statement about her business and services: “Are You Missing the Social Media Revolution? If you are an entrepreneur, solo-professional, business owner, franchisee, marketing director, work-at-home-mom or a direct sales professional who would like to learn more about how social media networking can work for you, your brand and your business…then you’re in the right place! My philosophy is this: it is NOT about marketing…it’s about CONNECTING. ”. So TRUE!

To create a new design branding we created a landing page for the website and integrated the blog as the back end. We like to really call this design as “Blogsite”, a hybrid between a Website and a Blog. The landing page serves as the Welcome page to give quick introduction about the business, mission statement, services and also makes it dynamic with feed from blog on a real time.

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Work Involved

• Blog & Profile Design
• Graphics Design
• Business Branding
• Real time blog feed
• WordPress Setup
• Online Contact Form
• Twitter, Facebook feeds
• Hosting and Maintenance
• Feedburner, Bookmarks, Tweet MeMe, Sociable, Siggy, Captcha, Akismet plugins
• Friend Connect, Text, Archives, Comments, Newsletter Widgets

Self-hosted on WordPress

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Hear what Edie McRae thinks of our work

Read Edie’s blog and her testimonial about the branding and new look.

Technology Used

WordPress, HTML, CSS, PHP, SSL, XHTML, MYSQL

Analysts predict that in 2010 25% of small businesses will be profitable. Is your business one of them? It’s time to reevaluate your New Year resolutions for your business to realign to your business goals to achieve pin pointed results.

Everybody’s talking about how 2010 will be big for their business. It’s time you take control of the direction and approach to take advantage of the market’s comeback. We all waited too long to get back into the success path. Now, the time is here. Is your business ready? It’s never too late to make necessary changes to be ready and spread the word about your business. Here are few ways to make sure you are ready.

1. Build Content: Content is Information. Information is power. Power is success.

With businesses gaining maximum online presence, finding information is critical. Information builds trust, response and growth. Content creates information to create search engine optimization, means your consumers can find you and your services easily than your competition. It builds loyal connection between you and your customers. You can create those connections if you follow these simple ways.

• Website: Websites are no more just ‘online catalogues’ or static profiles of your business. They have grown to become powerful representation of your company, services and your customer promise. They are the entry points to most of the visitors that could help convert them into leads. On an average a visitor stays about less than 30 seconds on new websites. What does that mean? Means they are gone somewhere and giving business to your competition. This is measured by the bounce rate on your web stats. Do you really need that? I guess not. Hence, build easy to navigate website, with rich content, and good interactive design. Build your website as your first marketing tool than just an online profile.
• Blog: A company blog is such an essential tool for businesses as they share information regularly about their company updates, services, news and their growth forecasts. Blog energizes business by building dynamic content enabling users to get connected with you and company on a personal level. It’s like your high energy website letting your visitors interact, leave feedback, subscribe, exchange information.
• Social Branding: You probably heard or somehow already using it. Social Media has made internet very interactive taking the web to the next version. Social media is emerging as a new branding, networking and marketing tool. It has now quickly become one of the major elements of the internet DNA. Facebook business pages, Twitter lists & status updates, YouTube channel, LinkedIn profile & connections, Meetup, Eventbrite etc. help grow organic optimization that leads to better search engine ranking and authority over your competition. Social media helps growing your brand’s loyalty through networks, friends, connections, followers, fans, subscribers etc. You know the effect of ‘word-of-mouth’. Social media networking is an online simulation of the same. The information has ripple effect as the network shares it with their networks. Social media now dictates a portion of marketing budget for most of the successful companies.

Customer Centric Marketing Circle

2. Build Productivity and Reach ability: “Spend a dime today, to make a dollar tomorrow”

A dollar saved is two dollars earned. Always look to improve efficiency and productivity to save time, and as time is money, save money. Try to take advantage of online tools that reduce time and increase effectiveness in finishing daily mundane tasks improving your overall deliver-ability. This reduces lot of duplication and frustration that releases time to focus more on growing business and gaining more customers.

• Customer Manager: CRM is a customer resource manager that helps sales by tracking customers, leads, prospects and their interactions. It acts as an online repository to save and search for contacts’ information on demand. It helps integrate and share all sales efforts with your team. The information can be accessed anywhere and anytime.
• Online Campaigns: Campaigns energize your marketing strategy. Reaching customers repeatedly with information and updates creates loyal connection and understanding with your clients. Online campaigns tool creates simple steps to send email updates, follow ups to all or groups of your customers from CRM. It integrates sales with marketing.
• Newsletters:Online ONewsletters are periodicals with company updates, company offers and coupons sent to subscribers. It is an opt-in service that lets your visitors sign up from your website or blog. The users also have option to safely unsubscribe, or manage their subscription. Newsletter sign up boxes on your website or blog are search engine friendly (you know what that means, right?).

3. Build better Customer Service

You know your business better than anyone. Customers come to us for help with their work with a trust that the work can be done much efficiently and cost effectively.

• Listen first, help later: Understand your customer’s business problems and needs before suggesting them with a solution. Try to customize the services’ package that directly helps them solve their needs.
• Offer extra: Always offer “extra” in the form of ideas, information, or strategy or even services. This gives clients much needed comfort that leads to long term relationship.
• Be flexible: Customers are your biggest assets in business. Do anything to help them out, and keep the long term relationship. Remember the hard work you put together and the time spent to gain them in first place.
• Be accessible: Give them easy ways to get to you all the time. When they need you it’s very comforting to them to know you are accessible through multiple ways. Always publish your contact information and any help desk tools you use so they can find you easily.
• Provide referrals: Like the client trusts your services, understand and trust your client’s services. Find opportunities to refer your customers to your network of connections. I guarantee, the favor will be returned.

Now, are you ready to make necessary changes to take on 2010? Remember, this is YOUR year, and is BIG for your business. Best wishes.



Project GotIcing.com

Celebrations specializes in custom Wedding, Birthday, Graduation, Shower, Groom and party cakes, cupcakes, cookies, pies and many other items. Made fresh daily, or reserve an extra special item for a special date.

It is a dream of Shellie Divin, coming true with her mother Crystal, been active part of it.

We helped get her dream online representing her work most elegantly. We redesigned the website with an enhanced self managed and self published gallery, with slide shows, light box, 3D views, Cool Iris integration, infinite menu slider etc. Check out the cake designs and her creative work by visiting the site and check out the video for background, and her thoughts about our work.

Celebrations & Sweet Creations

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Work Involved

• Website redesign
• Self managed image gallery
• Dynamic slide shows
• 3D CoolIris integration
• Graphics
• JQuery Slider
• Hosting and Maintenance

Self Managed Image Gallery

The self managed and self published gallery gives Shellie a complete control in seamlessly uploading, updating, and deleting cake pictures on demand.

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Technology Used

HTML, CSS, PHP, XHTML, Web 2.0, WordPress, NexGen Plugin, Image Rotator

Project Give Like A Rock Star

Mady and Gabby wish to give thanks through giving for every birthday. Their birthday wish is to grant a Wish of a child battling a life threatening medical condition through The Make-A-Wish Foundation. They are on a mission to make a difference… one birthday at a time. We are proud to be a sponsor. Now, it’s your turn to be a Rock Star.

Work Involved

• Website migration
• Video editing & mixing
• Graphics
• HTML Content updates
• Hosting and Maintenance

“Giving Thanks through Giving”

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Technology Used

HTML, CSS, PHP, XHTML, Web 2.0

Project WoodlandsLaw.com

Rathwell De Ford & Wallison has a proven track record as a trial firm that consistently delivers desired results. Their clients rely on the expertise, professionalism, and integrity of their lawyers and expect innovative approaches to matters borne out of hard work and a creative perspective to the legal situation presented.

They offer Civil and Commercial Litigation services and are Trial and Appellate Practice Attorneys Serving Texas and Louisiana.

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Work Involved

• Website Ease of Use Redesign
• JQuery Content Slider
• Navigation Menu Redesign
• Email SMTP & MX Host
• Hosting and Maintenance

Dynamic On Demand Content Loader

To create ease of use and navigation a Dynamic content loader is created to load appropraite data on demand to make the content more readable and less cumbersome. Check it out below.

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Technology Used

HTML, CSS, PHP, XHTML, JQuery, Web 2.0

What our client is saying?

I met Siva through the Woodlands Media Hub and immediately hired him to host our website and provide additional services. Siva is more than just a website developer; he thinks outside the box and offers your business a complete program for creating an effective and well rounded Web presence for your marketing efforts.

Teresa DeFord, Owner/Attorney
Rathwell DeFord & Wallison, PLLC

Project Houstonbeaglerescue.org

Houston Beagle and Hound Rescue, Inc. (HBHR) is a non-profit 501-(c)-3, all-volunteer organization dedicated to beagle and hound rescue. They are a small group of volunteers who foster dogs in homes. There is no shelter facility. The organization provides placement assistance to shelters and individuals who need to find homes for hounds which, for various reasons, have become stray or homeless.

Along with the website design a data driven back-end system is created to self-manage and self-publish Beagles data, News, Events, Featured, Forms, Users by admin members. It has a restricted login with a form authentication and role based access to different data, modules and functionality.

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Work Involved

• Web & Profile Design
• Database backend system
• Self published content
• Data repository management
• Role based login security
• Dynamic content controls
• Paypal Integration
• Hosting and Maintenance

Role based Data Management System

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Technology Used

HTML, CSS, PHP, SSL, XHTML, MYSQL, Form Authentication

What Houston Beagle Organization is saying?

I met Siva of ITVibes at a Chamber of Commerce meeting in 2008 and approached him about helping with our non-profit dog rescue web site, as our volunteer webmaster was no longer able to continue to help us. Siva was very willing to meet with us several times, and spent a lot of time going over details with our board members — some of us being not-so-knowledgeable — which was VERY helpful! Siva is now maintaining our website, www.HoustonBeagleRescue.org and continues to respond in a very timely fashion whenever we have questions or concerns. We are so appreciative of his talents!

Sandra Kos, Founder
Houston Beagle & Hound Rescue

I highly recommend Siva Yenneti of ITVibes. He is very knowledgeable and worked closely with our board members to understand what we wanted to do with our web site. He delivered a very professional product in a timely manner. It is a pleasure dealing with Siva, and we continue to rely on him to maintain our web site.

Koko Diaz, President
Houston Beagle & Hound Rescue

Project BrandYouNew.com

Brandyounew.com is a Rock Star U program to guide you to leverage your business to make money like a ROCK STAR! Aly and Andrea’s missions is to touch a gazillion lives and make a difference in each definition of personal success. By shining a light on your own rock star qualities, they celebrate you above and beyond your accomplishments and obstacles. They celebrate Rock Star You.

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Work Involved

• Website & Profile Design
• Graphics Design
• Click to Pay Custom Programming
• Authorize.net Payment Gateway
• Online Payments (One time & Recurring)
• Secured Pages/ SSL/ HTTPS
• Database Status/Error handling
• Hosting and Maintenance

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Technology Used

HTML, CSS, PHP, SSL, XHTML, AIM, ARB, MYSQL, Authorize.net

What Aly and Andrea are saying?

Siva at ITVibes is fabulous! Nothing gives peace of mind like knowing that our online presence and our brand is being cared for by a true expert who genuinely cares about building a great product to uphold the branding of our business! Our vision is his vision, which makes for a great working team. And. whenever we need to take care of website updates, content changes, or even back-end adjustments, Siva is just a phone call or an e-mail away! Thank you!

Andrea Kulberg
Aly & Andrea– Rock Star U