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proVanceTek recently released http://wonkatickets.com/ for Hilliard Bradley High School Theatre Department. The goal was to have a quickly launched, user-friendly website where patrons could purchase tickets. The site makes use of PayPal to process credit card transactions or patrons can even make their purchase using the available balance in their PayPal account.

In addition to the publicly available main section of the site, there's also a password protected area where staff can "sell" tickets to students for the in-school performance. This section collects the student's first name, last name, and student id and adds it to a database. From the database, the data will be exported as a CSV file for the school's attendance office for their record. We're also working on a system that will be used for admission to the in-school performance where each student's student id barcode will be scanned as they enter the performance and the data will be added to the database in context of whether or not the student who purchased a ticket actually showed up to the performance.

If you'd like more information about proVanceTek web development, please feel free to contact us today!

We've been working with several clients in Greenville, NC who wanted us to design an advertising campaign for them using a different concept. Loosely, here's how it works...

Traditionally, companies have spent thousands on advertising. The concept, specifically, that we're twisting is mobile billboard advertising - big billboard advertisements that drive in circles all day around town hoping that potential customers will see the big billboard driving around and have enough time and coordination to write down the phone number or website that just passed them. While this concept is kool, it's ineffective and ridiculously expensive.

We took the neat idea and adapted it and have created a website dedicated strictly to our mobile marketing services. Our plan is to, not have one large moving billboard, but rather, have smaller advertisements affixed to tons of cars. We've built a network of college students who commute to and from classes each day, drive back and forth to student activities and club meetings, and scurry around town running errands. Our concept was to utilize inexpensive car door magnets, affix a couple to a car, have tons of cars with the advertisements, driving around all throughout the day.

Our concept saves our clients money because 1) we use reasonably sized car door magnets that are inexpensive to produce compared to the large billboard prints used elsewhere and 2) we utilize cars that are already driving on the road instead of paying for a driver and all the gas to circulate around town all day. Our strategy also reaches more of our client's potential customers because 1) their ads are on tons of cars at once and 2) their potential customers are more likely to see the ads multiple times in a day.

proVanceTek is proud to be hosting the East Carolina University Up 'til Dawn website and has added some new features for online registration for events, calender, photo galleries, donations, document management, and much more!

The ECU Up 'til Dawn website was a recent acquisition from proVanceTek's owner's previous venture corporation. The website was designed from one of St. Jude's sanctioned templates to incorporate the East Carolina University branding banner across the top. The St. Jude HTML template was modified and ported over to a Wordpress website installation as a Wordpress theme.

The new website is utilizing the Drupal Content Management System. The website is a large improvement over the old Wordpress based website. There are several layers of user roles that allow Up 'til Dawn Board members access to pages and files that the general public does not have the ability to access. Likewise, sponsors and volunteers have their respective roles. We've utilized out-of-the-box Drupal modules to accomplish some of the groups needs, but we've customized others as needed.

We designed a web application for Beating Myeloma, an existing proVanceTek client, that allowed them to manage their walkathon event that was a cross between the well known Race for the Cure and the St. Jude Up 'til Dawn "50 Names Fast" program.

The Second Annual Galen Foundation Walk the Walk, Talk the Talkathon took place Saturday, June 21st, 2008 from 10am to noon at the University Upper School track.

If over a hundred pledges, resulting in nearly $12,000 in donations isn't proof enough of the event's success, check out their event video on the Beating Myeloma website. Last couple years, David Emerson, founder of Beating Myeloma and the Galen Foundation, walked by himself, accepting donations from friends and family, and raised about three grand. This year, he expanded operations to include other walkers and reaped the reward of more donations than ever.

Beating Myeloma, an existing proVanceTek client, requested that we help them design a web based application for a fundraising project of theirs.

The event is to be similar to the well known Race for the Cure combined with the St. Jude Up 'til Dawn "50 Names Fast" program. The Second Annual Galen Foundation Walk the Walk, Talk the Talkathon is to take place Saturday, June 21st, 2008 from 10am to noon at the Chagrin Falls High School track.

Because their existing website is maintained in Drupal, we needed to design something for the CMS so it would be transparent to the end user. We utilized existing Drupal modules that did things that were similar to what we needed and modified them where necessary.