Sunday, May 20, 2012

Sample Client Sites

Why Opstreams?

Our Information Technology Focus

Our primary focus is to be your information technology partner. If you have an info-tech staff, we w...

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Value: More Than a Website

At the same cost (or often lower) of a typical website, Opstreams gives you a powerful, modern onlin...

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Our Client Relationships

These may seem obvious, but are rarely committed to in the Information Technology industry: We li...

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Our Team and Process

Opstreams has a multi-disciplinary team of experts who complement each others skills. We use a ...

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Our Site Frameworks

Content-managed. We use only Joomla 2.X, Wordpress 3.X orDrupal 7+, and have been for years - t...

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Our Full-Web Marketing

Our Social Marketing delivers the greatest prospecting benefits per time-dollar. Google Adwords no l...

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Our Social Media

Our Social Media We were engaged by an expanding but low-key multi-use facility to understand new media and how best ...

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Segment Experience

Business and organization segments each have their specific online needs. Mis-matching needs with on...

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Info-Tech: Technology Alignment

Info-Tech: Technology Alignment Opstreams has several successful engagements with small to mid-size businesses on matching technolog...

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Info-tech: Workflows for Segments

Operational workflows need to be reflected in the site operations if you intend to go online. This i...

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Info-Tech: Systems Modeling

Info-Tech: Systems Modeling As experts in dynamical systems modeling and creating powerful business solutions, Opstreams is ofte...

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These are Your Modern Site Options - Understand Them! Or... We Can Provide Unbiased Guidance

Best for SMB, 501c; investment-grade sites
Year 1 only obligation
DIY; site updates $12-40/hr.
Powerful extensions
Very good templates/looks
Free; Great community support
High-end DB design, not pages
Wordpress CMS
Best for branding and blogging
Year 1 only obligation
DIY; site updates $12-40/hr
Weak extensions
Excellent templates/looks
Free; Excellent community support
High-end DB design, not pages
Drupal CMS
Best for enterprises, large sites
Powerful results
Substantial learning curve; not DIY
Limited extensions
Mediocre templates/looks
Free; Very good community support
High-end DB design, not pages
Traditional HTML
Hard to use; pages coded
Lock-in to designer
Designers expect $60-90/hr.
Extensions = $$$
Templates usually from scratch
Nothing free; support scattered
No DB; Labor-intensive; $$
Sitebuilder/Quicksite/Etc.
Best for amateur branding
Ongoing host lock-in
Easy to use, but canned
Cookie-cutter exts.
Cookie-cutter templates
No community; paid support
Easy to use; functional
Data belongs to host - not good
.NET, Java, CF
For enterprises with large capex
Unlimited $$
No DIY, requires software engineers
Extensions = $$$
Custom templates from scratch
Locked into development team
Easy to use; powerful
Closed access; high-end DB