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Today's article is by Rainer Detering, the Senior Consultant
at Dipl.-Ing, and lives at the German-French border. Ranier
writes this article as a follow-up to Jennifer Stewart's article,
How to Keep Your Visitors Happy, which was sent out last Thursday.
This is what Ranier wrote me:
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Hi Pete,
When I read Jennifer´s article today, I spontaneously
decided to add some of my own writing to the thread. You may
publish it if you like...
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Best Wishes,
Pete
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Keeping Your National & International Visitors Happy |
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When I read that beautiful article from Jennifer Stewart
on the very same topic, I realized that many of us would not
have the time to search for and maintain really good stuff
to entertain our visitors. And I surely remembered that more
than two years ago we at ICA-D dealt with the very same topics.
Being German and publishing on the web mainly for German speaking
audiences, we nevertheless realized very soon, that interesting
content, even if not been written in English, might attract
visitorsof foreign tongues worldwide. So - what could we do
to entertain visitors nationally and internationally alike?
When we started to put our "2000 Years in History"
(which is under development since 1993, first being published
on CD-ROM) on the web in January 1999, we already did have
some web experiences. If you would like to have a peek, you
may visit the site here:
http://www.weltchronik.de
Concerning the entertaining issue, we were looking for something
suitable to those international needs, and we finally came
down to online playable jigsaw puzzles.
Why that? Why jigsaw puzzles?
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Jigsaw puzzles are aiming at ALL ages, ANY gender, ALL languages.
Nothing else has such flexibility:
+ they do not shy away or even offend certain individuals
(as many FLASH graphics or certain jokes do),
+ they do not need any explanation, no manual, nothing like
that. ANYBODY knows how to play a jigsaw puzzle,
+ depending the picture you add to the game, you can adapt
a puzzle game to individual topics very easily,
+ plus, plus, plus...
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When we looked
for a suitable software doing the job, we could not find any
in the market by that time. So we wrote our own. This gave us
the advantage to add some features a marketeer would love to
have: A tool to gather leads. A tool to catch a prospect in
a state of being "happy", flying high because of having
solved a little problem successfully. This IS a very important
aspect on its own!
The results can be viewed at our jigsaw puzzle home page:
http://www.ica-d.com/puzzle/puzzle.htm
(this site is written in English, dont bother to need a translator).
And what we are doing by ourselves with this piece of software
may be viewed inside our history pages (there is some German
there, but you will circumnavigate it easily):
http://www.weltchronik.de/games/puzzle/puzzle.htm
By the way - the software cuts ANY JPEG image into a programmable
number of pieces automatically at runtime.
Pretty soon we found out that other webmasters would like to
have such marketing tools on their own site. Thus, we made the
software public, adding FreeWare and ShareWare versions to it
and started selling it seperately - especially the "Strategic
Business Version" which is exactly the same what we use
to make our visitors to hand out their e-mail addresses to us.
And to make them come back every once in a while, even if they
would eventually not search for historical events.
If
you need efficiency, speed, cost-reductions and visibility,
then
you NEED eWork ProSource...
Using such tools (yes, we do have a joke page, too, with hourly
changing contents) since over two years now, the status of
our sites is some 13.000 unique vistors a day downloading
2 million pages each month. And close to 50% of them became
regular guests. For a German content of such specialities,
this is pretty much though.
Regards and greetings from the German-French border!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rainer Detering, Senior Consultant
Dipl.-Ing., Webmaster of ICA-D, Germany International Consultants
Agency Homepage: http://www.ica-d.de
with links to all other services as there are: German Laws
online, Inline Skating Guide, and of course World-, German-,
Technical- and Cultural- History of the last 2000 Years Online
playable Jigsaw Puzzle Applet pages are found at http://www.ica-d.com/puzzle/puzzle.htm
All versions may be tested as ShareWare, purchases can be
done by Credit Cards using secure US Services.
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reading WebProNews. We hope you find this information useful.
Peter Thiruselvam
Editor
The WebProNews Team
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