Simcoe Media Group, web design Barrie ON Canada

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Some of Our Clients

SIMCOE MEDIA GROUP, Interactive Solutions, has developed sites for some of Barrie's largest and best-known businesses and services - area builders, real estate brokers, retailers, service and entertainment groups.

Names like Pratt Homes, Gregor Homes, REMAX, Modco Homes, Sun Life of Barrie, Canadian Tire in Orillia, Gryphon Theatre, and many, many more.

We've also expanded into the Toronto market doing interactive sites for companies like The Toronto Star, the Hamilton Spectator, Can-ar Coach Services, FM Windows and Doors, The Intelligent Computer People, M & I Air Systems to name a few. Our design team has won several industry awards and raves for our customers for their original and creative designs.

 

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Database Driven Sites 

  • Newest Releases
  • Custom Design Applications
  • Car Dealers/Automotive
  • Content Management
  • Industry / Manufacturing
  • Real Estate / Builders / Services
  • Human Resources / Intranets
  • Entertainment / Audio Streaming
  • Classified Display, Ordering and Payment
  • Retail / Shopping
  • Transportation
  • Services / Non-profit
  • Software Solutions & Sales



  • Clients
    Newest Releases

    Tromblys Tackle Box Orillia
    Tromblys Tackle Box Orillia - Newest Releases - SMG

    Tromblys Tackle Box, sells products for fishing, camping, hunting, paintball and outdoor cooking online using their website.

    Staff use an browser-based content management system to post products and add, edit or delete pages on their web site.

    The can flag items to "feature" on the main page, or amongst an unlimited number of categories and sub-categories.

    Their shopping cart system conducts order totalling on multiple orders, PST and GST calculations. Sales staff receive a formatted e-mail with order enquiries. If they wished, the cart system could easily be integrated with PayPal or other online, real time credit card processing services.

    www.tromblystacklebox.com

    pratthomes.ca
    pratthomes.ca - Newest Releases - SMG

    This original web site, which was also built by Simcoe Media Group, has been re-engineered to allow the builder to manage three (3) different web sites from a single browser-based interface.

    Using our custom Content Management System (CMS), the builder can manage separate web sites for its Barrie and Innisfil developments, along with a separate customer area - using a single interface. Using a pop-down selector, the builder can pick which site it wishes to edit, adding pages, or posting model descriptions and pricing, complete with elevation sketches and floor plans.

    The models are then sorted and displayed on the public side of the web site by subdivision and by lot size. The system is flexible – so that the developer can add new subdivisions to the web site using the CMS as ground gets broken on new communities – or delete subdivisions as developments get sold out. Models are displayed in an easy-to-browse table arrangement, sorted by lot size, including information like Model Name, Style, Square Footage, Number of Garages and Price. Visitors click the model name to see a full-sized sketches and floor plan images. Using our customer interface, the manager can change information on individual models or put through bulk price changes from a single page. They can also flag a model as being sold out and turn it on and off from the CMS.

    The Pratt system also includes a unique service, where customers are provided with their own unique user ID and password which is set up in the central CMS. Using this private access information, clients from outside the area can log in and monitor the progress of their new home, as it is being built!

    Sales staff post frequent updates & pictures during various phases of construction phase and along with information about when building permits are issued, when basement footings are poured, when framing is complete - down to the final occupancy dates and information. Using this system customers are able to monitor progress remotely without having to make the drive up from Toronto, or elsewhere.

    www.pratthomes.ca

    Georgian Mortgages
    Georgian Mortgages - Newest Releases - SMG

    Best Mortgage Rates
    Looking to buy a new home? Renewing your mortgage and shopping around for low rates? Stop searching and call us today. We do the shopping to ensure that you get exactly what you're looking for!

    Apply Online
    Want to apply for a mortgage but don't have time to visit the office to fill out a bunch of forms? Fill out our convenient, on-line mortgage application form; we will do the leg work, get you pre-approved, then call you when we've found the best rate.

    www.georgianmortgages.com

    Cookstown Greens
    Cookstown Greens - Newest Releases - SMG

    Cookstown Greens ecologically grows specialty organic produce:

    salad greens, microgreen seedlings, unique vegetables with unusual colours, edible flowers, fancy garnishes, flavourful heirloom tomatoes, and colourful high Brix heritage root vegetables. These are featured at many critically acclaimed Toronto and Ontario restaurants and hotels!

    www.cookstowngreens.com

    Haven Bath & Body
    Haven Bath & Body - Newest Releases - SMG

    E-commerce web site featuring bath and beauty products. This rollout represents an integration of a previous design by MH Connect with Simcoe Media Group's storefront and Content Management System (CMS).

    It comes with the dynamic page builder and management system with unlimited pages and the browser-based .html editor.

    Storefront operations allowing the shop owner to display and sort products by category and sub-category, which can be controlled and modifed from the password protected CMS. The custom image uploading system allows the owner to post a unique product image to each product section or category page along with a category description and a dynamic display of products with a View Product Details popup window and Order Now function to cue the product to the shopping cart.

    In the admin area, the vendor, can make bulk price changes by category, or click in and edit specific product information including image posting in a .gif or .jpg format.

    The shopping cart does order totalling and GST and PST calculations. Orders are sent to the vendor using a formatted e-mail system, but can quickly be converted over to full, real time credit card processing using PayPal, Caledon Card, Internet Secure or other popular credit card processing systems.

    Site also comes with cpanel access to allow the owner to monitor web site traffic and manage staff e-mail accounts.

    www.myhaven.ca

    Greater Barrie Home Builders Association
    Greater Barrie Home Builders Association - Newest Releases - SMG

    Home web site for the Greater Barrie Home Builder's Association.

    It comes with an attractive Flash header and re-design. Using an easy-to-use, browser-based Content Management System staff of the GBHBA are able to manage two sites - the publicly accessible web site at www.gbhba.on.ca, plus a private members area where they are able to tailer a separate site for members.

    The CMS comes with our internally developed Dynamic Page Builder which features unlimited pages and a Microsoft Word styled .html editor. Staff can create pages at will, pick from a couple of different pages arrangements or templates within the central design or theme, upload pictures, create links - basically anything they could do with a professional WYSIWYG .html editor. As well, staff are able to post breaking news to a dated press release manager on the right hand-side of the web site.

    Using the CMS they can decide whether to display new page links added to the site, in the top, side or bottom navigation. They can also use it to build or update the members directory listing area for people looking for a area builder or related service.

    Board members are assigned their own unique user IDs and Passwords and they are able to log in and edit their directory listing, updating their description or contact information, or even replacing their company logo. If they have a web site address or e-mail link, they can post it here, and it is automatically hypertexted.

    The site CMS features many more functions including the ability for staff to customize the meta title, keyword and description information for members

    All of our database packages also come with cpanel access which allows staff or companies to manage their own e-mail accounts and monitor web site traffic in real time. They also get access to a convenient browser-based e-mail interface, handy for retrieving e-mail when on the road.

    www.gbhba.on.ca

    Sigrid"s Bakery
    Sigrid"s Bakery - Newest Releases - SMG

    A touch of Europe in Central Ontario!

    Located in Barrie, ON Canada - Sigrid's Bakery is owned and operated by the fourth generation of professionally trained, European bakers.

    www.sigridsbakery.simcoemediagroup.com

    Simcoe Marine
    Simcoe Marine - Newest Releases - SMG

    Simcoe Marine provides construction and rehabilitation of dock walls, sheet pile systems, breakwaters, shore protection and dredging.

    www.simcoemarine.com

    Esa's Rock Art Studio
    Esa's Rock Art Studio - Newest Releases - SMG

    Esa's Rock Art Studio is proud to present his patterns packets for your painting pleasure. All patterns are painted on slate which he personally hand cuts. He also has published patterns in several magazines. Do you want to know which ones?

    www.esarockartstudio.com
    Custom Design Applications

    WineDirect.ca
    WineDirect.ca - Custom Design Applications - SMG

    Welcome to WineDirect.ca - a new way to order wine in Ontario!

    As World-wide demand for Ontario wines continues to grow, a group of family-owned wineries are producing small-volume hand-crafted wines which are becoming the new standards of excellence. Not only is this site about bringing you some of the best wines that Ontario's wineries have to offer, but, it is also about helping you enjoy the full wine experience. 

    We will try and educate you about these wines and their makers, and keep you informed about important events, tours and tastings going on within the Ontario wine industry.

    For this, our premier offer, we have selected eigth outstanding examples for your enjoyment, many of which are not available through your local LCBO outlet. These are limited edition wines that you can only get by making the drive down to "wine country" and purchasing at the local vineyard wine boutiques.

    www.winedirect.ca

    Toronto Star Wine Connection
    Toronto Star Wine Connection - Custom Design Applications - SMG

    Toronto Star Wine Connection - eCommerce/Inventory Management Applications - SMG
    The Hamilton Spectator Wine Connection - eCommerce/Inventory Management Applications - SMG
    CONNECTION
    CONNECTION

    The wine connection sites are the first of their kind in Ontario, and perhaps North America. Using a combined Internet and Call Centre interface, customers are able to order selected combinations of Ontario wines, not available through provincial LCBO stores.

    The site uses a sophisticated set of on-line tools to manage product and wine review information involved in each campaign. Site administrators can use a host of browser-based management tools to add new products, monitor and track orders in real time during the course of a campaign, upload new product pictures and descriptions, create new campaigns and monitor successful and failed orders.

    All orders are web-based. Special order screens have been set up for Call Centre staff who use the web site to fulfill orders, while the web site is open to accept orders 24/7. Administrators can use the Success/Failed order area to track whether the order came over the web or from the call centre and even track which staff member placed the order.

    The site uses a sophisticated shopping cart, which performs inventory quantity checks before the customer checks out to pay for their order in a secure, SSL protected, ordering environment.

    The site has also been integrated with Canada Post's Electronic Shipping and order tracking systems, so site administrators can import campaign information into the Canada Post software for label and manifest generation for shipping. It also includes a matching Access Invoice system for insertion into shipping cartons during the pick and pack operation at the consolidator. Participating wineries get electronic daily and detailed forecasts to ship product to the consolidator for shipping.

    The Star needed a developer who could develop the sites quickly and affordably and yet still handle the many custom and sophisticated requirements that were involved in this complicated project,

    Built in: PHP, Javascript, .html and hosted with MySQL

    www.simcoemediagroup.com/demo/wine

    Napoleon Fireplace Design Studio
    Napoleon Fireplace Design Studio - Custom Design Applications - SMG

    Napoleon Fireplace Design Studio

    This industry first, was created for Napoleon Fireplaces & Gas Grills/Wolf Steel, the head office for North American sales for this fireplace manufacturer. This build-your-own fireplace application allows customers to build the fireplace they'd like to order on-line, and watch it grow for them online depending on what mantel, trim or door option they choose.

    What makes this application so unique is that the customer can then upload a picture of their living room into the background image, to see what the new fireplace selection looks like in their living room! The other thing that makes it an industry first, is that the client is able to add new products such as mantels, trim, door kits etc. anytime they want from the backend using a custom, browser-based administration interface. They don't have to call the web site developer, every time the want to add a new mantel option/picture or introduce a new door kit.

    Built with a Flash front-end this site uses PHP and mySQL to serve up
    the dynamic content.

    www.fireplacedesignstudio.com
    Car Dealers/Automotive

    Lewis Motor Sales Inc.
    Lewis Motor Sales Inc. - Car Dealers/Automotive - SMG

    The family owned and operated business is part of a nationwide network of over 600 international truck dealers and serves the trucking needs of Simcoe County. The company uses the website to display and promote their services.

    www.lewismotorsinc.com

    BarrieAutoMall.com
    BarrieAutoMall.com - Car Dealers/Automotive - SMG

    Barrie Auto Mall is a way for buyers and dealers to effectively meet each other on the web.

    Visitors to the web site can browse for a vehicle by click on a specific dealer on the front page, or they can comparatively shop amongst all dealers in the database by selecting things like Make, Model, Price range and Year range. What could be easier than that.

    We guarantee you are going to get the best deal and get the vehicle with the features and at the price you want. We have the largest database of used vehicle inventory in Barrie. Vehicles are updated weekly so you know that what you are currently looking through is current. Dealers, if you want to sell a vehicle, what could be easier.

    www.barrieautomall.com

    PEI Car Guide
    PEI Car Guide - Car Dealers/Automotive - SMG

    We Are Driving Business to You...

    PEI Car Guide.com is the web version of "PEI Car Guide".

    Reach the largest market on Prince Edward Island for buying or selling your car, truck, tractor trailer etc.

    www.peicarguide.com

    Everything Auto
    Everything Auto - Car Dealers/Automotive - SMG

    Every 2 weeks in Simcoe County in hundreds of stores, sports bars, breakfast diners, factory lunch rooms, video stores and high traffic street locations, 1000’s of men 18-40 are reading the Ultimate Motor Mag EVERYTHING AUTO!

    Full of Car, Truck & Bike Dealers, After Market Performance Shops, Body Specialists, Car Audio Professionals, Wreckers --- covering EVERYTHING AUTO in Simcoe County Region.

    www.everythingauto.ca
    Content Management

    godirectories
    godirectories - Content Management - SMG

    HELPING YOUR BUSINESS GO

    Welcome to SIMCOE COUNTY'S first all-inclusive, mobile phone book and on-line directory – a list of ALL white page and area businesses listings designed for people on the go, in a convenient digest and web-based format! It fits easily in the glovebox of your car!

    With many other phone book companies publishing four or five editions throughout Simcoe County, take your pick of which book to keep in the kitchen, the rec-room or den in your home – but what about when you’re on the road, and need to call a business?

    Do you need to get to the pharmacy on the way home from work, and wonder what time they close? Is it time to treat your family to dinner – or flowers, and it’s easier to order before you get home? Who do you call if you have a roadside emergency?

    godirectories.com

    Metroland Milestones
    Metroland Milestones - Content Management - SMG

    Metroland Milestones - Informational - SMGMetroland Milestones

    A community notice site for eight newspapers with Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing. Metroland publishes more than 70 community newspapers in Ontario and is mainly centred around Metropolitan Toronto.

    The newspapers use this dynamic, database driven site to post and sell on-line community notices for everything from births, to deaths, anniversaries, weddings, graduations etc. Each newspaper has access their own area and can post notices and pictures using the browser-based interface, or import data directly from their classified systems. One of the many unique features about this site is that picture notices automatically get their own on-line guest book, where members of the public can drop in and leave their comments.

    There is also an on-line service directory that can be used to link death notices with the specific funeral home where the deceased is resting or a birth announcement to a specific hospital. Includes full shopping cart and secure credit card payment system and a keyword check to prevent people from posting obscene words to the guest book area. Built in PHP, mySQL and Javascript.

    www.metrolandmilestones.com

    Barrie Garage Sale
    Barrie Garage Sale - Content Management - SMG

    The Garage Sale Order Form of  this website, owned by the Barrie Advance, allows the citizens of Barrie and surrounding to order their garage sale ad in any of the five Simcoe County publications. The ad will also be published for free on the website itself.

    www.barriegaragesales.com

    Toronto Star Wine Connection
    Toronto Star Wine Connection - Content Management - SMG

    Toronto Star Wine Connection - eCommerce/Inventory Management Applications - SMG
    The Hamilton Spectator Wine Connection - eCommerce/Inventory Management Applications - SMG
    CONNECTION
    CONNECTION

    On-line information site launched by the Toronto Star to give readers access to wine education in the form of reviews and packaged bundles of Ontario wines selected by its wine critics.

    The wine connection sites are the first of their kind in Ontario, and perhaps North America. Using a combined Internet and Call Centre interface, customers are able to order selected combinations of Ontario wines, not available through provincial LCBO stores.

    The site uses a sophisticated set of on-line tools to manage product and wine review information involved in each campaign. Site administrators can use a host of browser-based management tools to add new products, monitor and track orders in real time during the course of a campaign, upload new product pictures and descriptions, create new campaigns and monitor successful and failed orders.

    All orders are web-based. Special order screens have been set up for Call Centre staff who use the web site to fulfill orders, while the web site is open to accept orders 24/7. Administrators can use the Success/Failed order area to track whether the order came over the web or from the call centre and even track which staff member placed the order.

    The site uses a sophisticated shopping cart, which performs inventory quantity checks before the customer checks out to pay for their order in a secure, SSL protected, ordering environment.

    The site has also been integrated with Canada Post's Electronic Shipping and order tracking systems, so site administrators can import campaign information into the Canada Post software for label and manifest generation for shipping. It also includes a matching Access Invoice system for insertion into shipping cartons during the pick and pack operation at the consolidator. Participating wineries get electronic daily and detailed forecasts to ship product to the consolidator for shipping.

    The Star needed a developer who could develop the sites quickly and affordably and yet still handle the many custom and sophisticated requirements that were involved in this complicated project,

    Built in: PHP, Javascript, .html and hosted with MySQL

    www.torontostarwineconnection.com

    On-line, PDF ad proofing systems
    On-line, PDF ad proofing systems - Content Management - SMG

    Allow staff and customers to proof their ads on-line, in .pdf or .jpg format, before going to press.

    Using a password protected, browser-based system - sales reps and their customers can review their ad material in crisp, clear colour while it is going through the production process. Editing or copy instructions can be passed on by e-mail or by built-in, on-line forms to be reviewed by composing staff or the production manager.

    Eliminate the need for hard-to-read, black and white fax copies.

    Custom solutions, or modifications to existing, out-of-box solutions provided, as with this example for AtHomeInYork, which is part of the York Region division of Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing.

    www.athomeinyork.com
    Industry / Manufacturing

    M & I Power Technology
    M & I Power Technology - Industry / Manufacturing - SMG

    This company is a subsidiary of MIR Air Technology and makes noise abatement systems for the Gas Turbine industry. The company uses this custom-built, browser based system to maintain their web site, add new product content, maintain sales agent and employee contact lists. Built in PHP, mySQL.

    www.mipowertechnology.com

    The Original Flag Store
    The Original Flag Store - Industry / Manufacturing - SMG

    Dynamic, catalogue web site for the head office of The Original Flag Store in Barrie, ON Canada. Using a suite of browser-based tools, the web administrator is able to add pages, or maintain products on their web site without any special software, or without having to learn .html. They use their browser interface to create new products, and upload pictures taken with a digital camera. Unique cuing function, for clients not ready for a full-blown shopping cart. Visitors navigate through the site and cue products as if it were a shopping cart – that information is then passed on to the structured information request form, so the visitor does not have to remember any product details or price. It can be integrated with PayPal, or any regular credit card authorization service.

    www.theflagstore.ca

    www.globetenders.com
    www.globetenders.com - Industry / Manufacturing - SMG

    Database-managed public-tendering site. People can post tenders or respond to posted tenders and pay through PayPal. Site operator can add new categories on the fly, countries, provinces or states, cities and even tenders from the browser-based admin system.

    www.globetenders.com

    Pac North Industries Limited
    Pac North Industries Limited - Industry / Manufacturing - SMG

    A newly completed site for Pac North Industries, a Barrie-based firm which sells pallets and re-useable containers to the manufacturing and food industries.

    This is one of our out-of-the-box solutions which allows the customer to dynamically manage page and product inventory on his web site using a browser-based administration system.

    This site also features a Request More Information option – whereby visitors can scroll through a list of products and put a checkbox beside each product they would like more information on. When Request Information is selected, that information is passed on to a standardized form and will be included with the formatted e-mail sent to the company.

    Lots of other features including product pop-up windows and meta title, keyword and description editing tools

    www.pacnorthindustries.com

    RCS Canada Inc.
    RCS Canada Inc. - Industry / Manufacturing - SMG

    RCS Canada uses this dynamic website to promote their wide range of energy efficient and reliable heating and air conditioning technologies. The system allows the company to add new pictures and content to the website.  

    www.rcscanada.net

    FM Industries
    FM Industries - Industry / Manufacturing - SMG

    This static website for the window and doors specialist FM Industries allows the company to promote their  product models in all the different styles and their services from manufacturing to installation online.

    www.fmwindows.com

    HI-LITE SYSTEMS
    HI-LITE SYSTEMS - Industry / Manufacturing - SMG

    HI-LITE SYSTEMS of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada has been designing and manufacturing concrete support systems, made from HI-strength, LITE-weight aluminium, for the domestic and international markets for over 30 years. This dynamic website is used to display the different systems and projects.  

    www.hi-lite-systems.com

    Northern Comfort Windows & Doors
    Northern Comfort Windows & Doors - Industry / Manufacturing - SMG

    A dynamic website, which was built for the window and door company to display their services and products.

    www.northerncomfortwindows.com

    Georgian bobcat and Excavating
    Georgian bobcat and Excavating - Industry / Manufacturing - SMG

    With this website Georgian bobcat offers its excavation services and allows the customer to book the service online. 

    www3.sympatico.ca/georgianbobcat/index.html
    Real Estate / Builders / Services

    Gregor Homes
    Gregor Homes - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    Barrie new home builder. The builder has ability to add models, subdivisions, upload pictures and floor plans, change pricing, lot premiums etc using the browser inventory-management system. Customer can use a unique page building tool, which then show up in the selected site navigation areas. Custom template management system, and picture scaling tool which allows him to upload pictures and select sizes to scale to using a browser-based pop-down system.

    www.gregorhomes.com

    Belpark Homes
    Belpark Homes - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    Dynamically managed web site for a Barrie new home builder. The site's interface allows the builder to add new subdivisions, models, elevation sketches and floor plans using a browser interface.

    www.belparkhomes.com

    Metroland New Homes
    Metroland New Homes - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    New home comparison shopping site. Builders assigned user ID and password and able to manage their own subdivisions and model inventory. Upload pictures and floor plans.

    www.metrolandnewhomes.com

    Royal Lepage, Barrie
    Royal Lepage, Barrie - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    Dynamic web site and marketing tool for the Barrie Royal LePage brokerage office service, the Barrie, Innisfil and Angus offices. The client can use the browser-based interface to add or edit pages, post office location and driving direction maps, plus maintain a list of agents, sorted by office. They can also use the editing features to edit company contact information, tel, fax, e-mail etc.

    www.rlpbarrie.com

    Simcoe Waterfront Homes
    Simcoe Waterfront Homes - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    Follows mls model for Barrie agent. The site allows visitors to comparison shop for waterfront properties in the Simcoe County area. Custom search based on price range, body of water, style of house etc. All browser managed. Agent able to post listings for other agents including links to listing agents e-mail and web site. Warren Landry, Sutton, Incentive Realty, Barrie, ON

    www.simcoewaterfronthomes.com

    Aykler Real Estate
    Aykler Real Estate - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    Static web site for Aykler Real Estate in Toronto, which has 1,400 apartment & townhouse units under management.

    The company uses the site as a brochure to promote its property management services and to sell high-end condomium units. The site features exterior condo shots and floor plans. Also includes a standard cgi-based information request form.

    This is the second time we have been asked to do the site, which we also host on our servers.

    www.aykler.com

    Modco Homes
    Modco Homes - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    Static web site created for Modco Homes, which developed the popular Sugar Bush development in the Horseshoe area of Oro-Medonte.

    The site includes sketches of the company's various models and is updated regularly to let the public know what lots, prices and models are available.

    www.modcohomes.com

    Christina Homes
    Christina Homes - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    This colourful, attractive web site was created for south Simcoe builder Christina Homes.

    The company has developments in Bradford, Keswick, Orillia, Stroud and Innisfil.

    It uses this site to post model renderings, floor plans and pricing. There is also an interesting Feature Home area where visitors can see do a visual, room by room walk through of several, popular models.

    www.christinahomesltd.com

    The Terraces
    The Terraces - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    This attractive, static web site was created for the I.O.O.F Hall's The Terraces seniors' condominium development in Barrie.

    This is now the second development of the site, which has been modified to accommodate sales of the development's second phase.

    The site includes a lot of information including suite layouts, pricing, a life lease Q and A section and more.

    www.theterraces.net

    Bertram Construction & Design Ltd.
    Bertram Construction & Design Ltd. - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    This static web site was created for the Bertram Construction and Design Ltd. in Barrie, a family owned and operated business serving the commercial, industrial, service and multi-unit residential sectors. The site is mainly used for promoting past and current high quality building projects.

    www.bertram.ca

    pratthomes.ca
    pratthomes.ca - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    This original web site, which was also built by Simcoe Media Group, has been re-engineered to allow the builder to manage three (3) different web sites from a single browser-based interface.

    Using our custom Content Management System (CMS), the builder can manage separate web sites for its Barrie and Innisfil developments, along with a separate customer area - using a single interface. Using a pop-down selector, the builder can pick which site it wishes to edit, adding pages, or posting model descriptions and pricing, complete with elevation sketches and floor plans.

    The models are then sorted and displayed on the public side of the web site by subdivision and by lot size. The system is flexible – so that the developer can add new subdivisions to the web site using the CMS as ground gets broken on new communities – or delete subdivisions as developments get sold out. Models are displayed in an easy-to-browse table arrangement, sorted by lot size, including information like Model Name, Style, Square Footage, Number of Garages and Price. Visitors click the model name to see a full-sized sketches and floor plan images. Using our customer interface, the manager can change information on individual models or put through bulk price changes from a single page. They can also flag a model as being sold out and turn it on and off from the CMS.

    The Pratt system also includes a unique service, where customers are provided with their own unique user ID and password which is set up in the central CMS. Using this private access information, clients from outside the area can log in and monitor the progress of their new home, as it is being built!

    Sales staff post frequent updates & pictures during various phases of construction phase and along with information about when building permits are issued, when basement footings are poured, when framing is complete - down to the final occupancy dates and information. Using this system customers are able to monitor progress remotely without having to make the drive up from Toronto, or elsewhere.

    www.pratthomes.ca

    Georgian Mortgages
    Georgian Mortgages - Real Estate / Builders / Services - SMG

    Best Mortgage Rates
    Looking to buy a new home? Renewing your mortgage and shopping around for low rates? Stop searching and call us today. We do the shopping to ensure that you get exactly what you're looking for!

    Apply Online
    Want to apply for a mortgage but don't have time to visit the office to fill out a bunch of forms? Fill out our convenient, on-line mortgage application form; we will do the leg work, get you pre-approved, then call you when we've found the best rate.

    www.georgianmortgages.ca
    Human Resources / Intranets

    Metroland HR
    Metroland HR - Human Resources / Intranets - SMG

    This dynamic, database driven web site is used by the Human Resources department of Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing to provide employees with important, up-to-date information about their medical and pension benefits. There is also a access controlled area where managers can go to access company policy on various employee related issues, such as hiring and firing, sexual harassment and human rights issues. The site is managed and updated by a browser interface and was designed in PHP, my SQL and Javascript. Access to Employee Handbook - hr/hr. Access to Manager's Manual - mgr/hr.

    www.metrolandhr.com

    Metroland Carriers
    Metroland Carriers - Human Resources / Intranets - SMG

    The carrier websites have been designed for the use of the carriers at the Barrie Advance and four other Simcoe County publications.  They include available routes, announcements, staff informations and so on.

    www.metrolandcarriers.com
    Entertainment / Audio Streaming

    Gryhon Theatre, Barrie
    Gryhon Theatre, Barrie - Entertainment / Audio Streaming - SMG

    Dynamic web site for Gryphon Theatre in Barrie, ON Canada. Theatre staff can use our suite of browser based tools to add, or edit web site content, or add shows, which can be used to cue ticket orders to a formatted, ticket reservation system. Browser, based resizing tools used to post preformers images and ticket pricing to the on-line, catalogue system.

    www.gryphontheatre.com

    Billy Savage
    Billy Savage - Entertainment / Audio Streaming - SMG

    Midland, ON - allows the artist to promote and market his material through audio streaming. Click on a song title and listen to the full-length song, in high-quality format with Real Audio streaming. Needs Real Audio Player.

    www.simcoemediagroup.com/billysavage

    Nite Star Karaoke
    Nite Star Karaoke - Entertainment / Audio Streaming - SMG

    This fun site was created for a Wasaga Beach karaoke company. The site's owner is able to manage just about every aspect of the site with a browser interface, such as, add pictures any time he wants, update and manage his song library, change his show schedule and even is Top 10 song list. The picture upload function uses its own scaling tools, so all the client has to do is browser his hard-drive to find and upload the .jpg image. The software sizes the image to fit a preselected size. The client uses the site to manage song-titles from three different libraries, which he is able to print and distribute at shows for clients to pick from his song selection.

    www.karaokegonewild.com

    karaokegonewild

    www.karaokegonewild.com
    Classified Display, Ordering and Payment

    Classified Display System
    Classified Display System - Classified Display, Ordering and Payment - SMG

    On-line newspaper classified display system for the Simcoe County Division of Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing. The system is used to display classified ads for five Simcoe County newspapers including the Barrie Advance, Alliston Herald, Collingwood/Wasaga Connection, Midland Mirror and Orillia Today newspapers.

    System includes a browser based import function to upload a delimited text file generated by the Baseview Classified ordering system. Can me modified to handle imports from Informatel and other manual systems.

    Adds can be displayed as an aggregate from all five newspapers, or as individual newspapers. Current ads are moved to the ad archive, whenever a fresh import is made. Archive active for 32 days. Users can search by drilling down into specific sections and categories (i.e. Help Wanted, General Help), or by doing a keyword search. Current ad totals are displayed dynamically beside each ad total so visitors can easily tell how many current ads are in the system.

    classifieds.simcoecountyonline.com

    Classified Display Ad Quoting and Ordering System
    Classified Display Ad Quoting and Ordering System - Classified Display, Ordering and Payment - SMG

    Similar to the Word Ad ordering system, this module will allow newspapers to quote and accept classified display ads on-line. The system will allow customers to select from a couple of standard templates, selecting things like borders, logos and Headline size, put in wording and generate a quote. Can be integrated with second-party, payment systems or submit ad via e-mail with attached logos.

    SIMCOE.COM

    SimcoeSeek

    Huronia Business Times, Alliston, ON

    Alliston Herald

    Barrie Advance

    Collingwood/Wasaga Connection

    Midland/Penetanguishene Mirror

    Orillia Today


    classifieds.simcoecountyonline.com

    Word Ad Quoting and Ordering System
    Word Ad Quoting and Ordering System - Classified Display, Ordering and Payment - SMG

    This module allows newspapers to accept classified word ad orders over the Internet and publish them in their newspapers or on-line. The system generates word ad quotes based on number of words in the ad and number of insertions in your newspaper(s). Quotes based on base words and additional words. Pricing configuration can be customized to accommodate users needs. Once installed, a flexible, browser-based system to allow clients to change pricing on the fly over the Internet. The quoting/payment module can be integrated with a secure, credit card payment service (MiraPay, Cybercash, PayPal etc.) or generate orders via e-mail, depending on the customer's capability. Successful ads can be imported, cut-and-pasted or typeset into existing ordering system.

    Basic reporting system to check success and failed orders allowing departments to close out or follow up on failed orders.

    classifieds.simcoecountyonline.com

    My York Region (Marketplace)
    My York Region (Marketplace) - Classified Display, Ordering and Payment - SMG

    Classified Ad Ordering System

    developed for York Region (www.yorkregion.ca)

    www.myyorkregion.ca
    Retail / Shopping

    Bizzy Kids
    Bizzy Kids - Retail / Shopping - SMG

    Bizzy Kids - on-line store for customized children's books. The client uses our on-line suite of tools to add pages or edit products on the web site. Uses our unique product cuing system. Can be integrated with PayPal or other credit card authorization service.

    www.bizzykids.ca

    Gardenstructure.com
    Gardenstructure.com - Retail / Shopping - SMG

    Woodworking plans shopping site. Custom browser-maintained catalogue site with shopping cart, which is integrated with a secure, second party payment system. Add, edit or delete products pictures and descriptions, categories, pricing. Switch between Canadian and U.S. pricing. Two separate sites - Plans and Installations managed by the same tool.

    www.gardenstructure.com

    canadiantire
    canadiantire - Retail / Shopping - SMG

    Created for the Canadian Tire store in Orillia in 1999-2000.

    The site was closed when Canadian Tire rolled out its own, national solution.

    The web site included sections for each of the store's main departments, automotive, sporting goods, hardware, houseware, camping, landscaping, etc. It also included and on-line bulletin board system so customers could leave their comments about service issues.


    aladdinties
    aladdinties - Retail / Shopping - SMG

    Aladdin Ties specializes in offering custom designed, formal and casual neckwear for the descerning client...

    Its showroom is located in Brampton, Ontario, just north of Toronto. It is a privately owned Canadian corporation which distributes its ties across Canada through a distribution network of local retailers and gradually expanding into the United States.

    www.aladdinties.com

    2002Ties
    2002Ties - Retail / Shopping - SMG

    This dynamic website was created for 2002Ties and offers the largest online selection of men's novelty neckties in Canada. The customer can search for a style of necktie that suits his taste into dozens of categories and can order online.

    www.2002ties.com

    WineDirect.ca
    WineDirect.ca - Retail / Shopping - SMG

    Welcome to WineDirect.ca - a new way to order wine in Ontario!

    As World-wide demand for Ontario wines continues to grow, a group of family-owned wineries are producing small-volume hand-crafted wines which are becoming the new standards of excellence. Not only is this site about bringing you some of the best wines that Ontario's wineries have to offer, but, it is also about helping you enjoy the full wine experience. 

    We will try and educate you about these wines and their makers, and keep you informed about important events, tours and tastings going on within the Ontario wine industry.

    For this, our premier offer, we have selected eigth outstanding examples for your enjoyment, many of which are not available through your local LCBO outlet. These are limited edition wines that you can only get by making the drive down to "wine country" and purchasing at the local vineyard wine boutiques.

    www.winedirect.ca

    tromblys
    tromblys - Retail / Shopping - SMG

    Tromblys sells products for fishing, camping, hunting, paintball and outdoor cooking. www.tromblys.com

    Toronto Star Wine Connection
    Toronto Star Wine Connection - Retail / Shopping - SMG

    Toronto Star Wine Connection - eCommerce/Inventory Management Applications - SMG
    The Hamilton Spectator Wine Connection - eCommerce/Inventory Management Applications - SMG
    CONNECTION
    CONNECTION

    The wine connection sites are the first of their kind in Ontario, and perhaps North America. Using a combined Internet and Call Centre interface, customers are able to order selected combinations of Ontario wines, not available through provincial LCBO stores.

    The site uses a sophisticated set of on-line tools to manage product and wine review information involved in each campaign. Site administrators can use a host of browser-based management tools to add new products, monitor and track orders in real time during the course of a campaign, upload new product pictures and descriptions, create new campaigns and monitor successful and failed orders.

    All orders are web-based. Special order screens have been set up for Call Centre staff who use the web site to fulfill orders, while the web site is open to accept orders 24/7. Administrators can use the Success/Failed order area to track whether the order came over the web or from the call centre and even track which staff member placed the order.

    The site uses a sophisticated shopping cart, which performs inventory quantity checks before the customer checks out to pay for their order in a secure, SSL protected, ordering environment.

    The site has also been integrated with Canada Post's Electronic Shipping and order tracking systems, so site administrators can import campaign information into the Canada Post software for label and manifest generation for shipping. It also includes a matching Access Invoice system for insertion into shipping cartons during the pick and pack operation at the consolidator. Participating wineries get electronic daily and detailed forecasts to ship product to the consolidator for shipping.

    The Star needed a developer who could develop the sites quickly and affordably and yet still handle the many custom and sophisticated requirements that were involved in this complicated project,

    Built in: PHP, Javascript, .html and hosted with MySQL

    www.simcoemediagroup.com/demo/wine
    Transportation

    freedomtofly.ca
    freedomtofly.ca - Transportation - SMG

    About AeroSource Corp.

    AeroSource is a privately owned Canadian Corporation. It was started in order to provide Canadians with the best possible program to overcome their fear of flying.

    Our Staff
    Our staff are dedicated to getting you into the air and making you a confident flyer.

    Airline Pilots
    Pilots are the Our pilots are all current, professional airline pilots currently flying with Canadian airlines. They are knowledgable, up-to-date pilots, ready to answer your questions.

    Aircraft Maintenance Engineers
    AMEs as they are known are the men and women who maintain the aircraft you will fly in. They are licenced professionals and are a critical part of the team that work to make air travel the safest method of travel we have.

    Psychologists
    The Freedom to Fly program employs registered psychologists for the

    www.freedomtofly.ca

    pilotcareersinternational
    pilotcareersinternational - Transportation - SMG

    Welcome to Pilot Careers International's website. 

    Visitors to this website can have a look at an aviation careers and publications or browse for interview preparations and tips. You can also have a look about our retail partners and purchase books!

    As a leading publisher on airline pilot careers, we hope you find the site useful.

    www.pilotcareersinternational.com

    Can-ar Coach Service
    Can-ar Coach Service - Transportation - SMG

    Attractive, static web site for Can-ar Coach services in Concord, ON.

    This web site, for the former Travelways Buslines, features on-line bus schedules and charter booking forms for Casino Rama and general tours to some of Ontario's biggest tourism destinations.

    Can-ar specializes in group travel originating in Toronto, the gateway of Niagara Falls, and the economic heartland of Canada. Its facilities are strategically located to serve Pearson International Airport, Toronto, and Southern Ontario.

    With annual revenues approach $15 million, Can-ar enjoys the confidence of a great number of wholesale tour and receptive operators in the Canadian inbound tourism industry, which account for over 40% of sales.

    Tour groups from the Pacific Rim (Japan primarily), German-speaking Europe and the United Kingdom (in order of magnitude) are provided in- and out-bound airport transfers, local and regional sightseeing and multiple day touring services.

    www.can-arcoach.com
    Services / Non-profit

    graspontario.com
    graspontario.com - Services / Non-profit - SMG

    Gareth Rodgers, a 38-year-old father of three, was a perfectionist, and according to a military parachute expert called during the inquest into his death, a man who “did everything that he possibly could to save his own life.” Rodgers fell 3,200 feet to his death on Aug. 25, 2002, after a double-parachute-malfunction failed to allow the deployment of either of his main or reserve canopies.

    In an attempt to make the sport safer, Rodgers' sister Melanie Tetlock, of Innisfil, is determined to maintain the government's attention and to bring a stronger public awareness for the serious risks associated within the sport of parachuting for student jumpers.

    “Most of us limit our consideration of risk within this sport to the sole act of jumping from an airplane. Without regulation, it is absolutely conceivable that a parachute rig may in fact be improperly maintained. It is also an alarmingly real possibility that some those with whom the students entrust their very lives, may exhibit questionable behaviours as was suggested during my brother's case,” she notes maintaining the premise that this is an absolutely unreasonable and unwarranted degree of risk.

    www.graspontario.com

    JC Mitchell Insurance Group Inc.
    JC Mitchell Insurance Group Inc. - Services / Non-profit - SMG

    The insurance company uses this website to display their different insurance possibilities. Furthermore it enables the customer to fill in a form to get an estimate via e-mail.

    www.jcmitchell.com

    Bernie Jankowski Barrister, Solicitor & Notary
    Bernie Jankowski Barrister, Solicitor & Notary - Services / Non-profit - SMG

    Bernie Jankowski, Barrister, Solicitor & Notary Public is a law firm specializing in real estate law as well as business advice and counseling and uses this website to promote their services.

    www.bjankowski.com
    Software Solutions & Sales

    R & D Decision Support Solutions
    R & D Decision Support Solutions - Software Solutions & Sales - SMG

    Nutrition Software that counts more than just calories!

    It is not possible for anyone to adhere to a diet comprised of foods he hates. Logically, since tastes differ, it is not possible for any one diet to be universally successful.

    To that end, at R & D Decision Support Solutions, we have decided to make life a little simpler by seeking, over the Internet, software that would provide a nutritional analysis of any recipe the user enters, and support storing nutritional constraints in the software for use in creating a week long meal plan and evaluating it with respect to the user’s nutritional needs.

    Failing to find adequate software elsewhere on the Internet, our founder, Dr. Ted Byers, decided to create it himself, hence the creation of this company.

    www.randddecisionsupportsolutions.com
     

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