Webworld Helps Arlington County Enhance Business Focused Website

Background:

Arlington County has won numerous awards for its foward thinking planning and managing the growth of the County and in promoting Arlington to businesses and tourists. One of the County's key tools for attracting businesses and helping them grow is Arlington's business-focused website: www.arlingtonvirginiausa.com.

The Challenge:

Arlington Economic Development (AED) needed a technology partner that could handle both day-to-day maintenance and support for the website and provide the technical expertise needed for both large and small development projects to enhance the site.

The Solution:

Webworld Technologies worked in close partnership with Arlington Economic Development for a number of years to continuously enhance this business-focused website that holds top search engine positions, gets thousands of visitors a month and contains interactive features designed to help businesses succeed and grow in Arlington, VA.

During this partnership with AED, Webworld has provided maintenance, rapid response support within minutes and complete development solutions for the website's functionality.

This website contains many user-friendly features such as:

• Easy-to-use content management solution
• User friendly menu with drop-downs augmented with bread crumb navigation so a user can always retrace his/her steps
• Site-wide search
• Password protected areas for business partners for posting of promotional materials
• Search engine friendly page template

Small Business Checklist – Interactive checklist that walks a potential business owner through the process of establishing their business: http://www.arlingtonvirginiausa.com/index.cfm/4746.

Business Quiz –Assessment survey that enables AED to give customized advice to business owners and referrals to a business consulting firm to help them achieve their goals: http://www.arlingtonvirginiausa.com/index.cfm/15080.

Image Library – A robust, indexed and searchable image library of photos of local business, buildings, attractions and events – photos are royalty free with credit to Arlington County: http://www.arlingtonvirginiausa.com/index.cfm/11117.