Americaneagle.com is in the forefront when it comes to Innovations. We are continually seeking out advances in technology that can work to benefit our customers. Below find examples of how innovations have contributed to the success of some of these customers.
Mardel - idev® Intelligent Search
www.mardel.com
Americaneagle.com has developed an intelligent search tool for the Mardel Web site with visual product thumbnails. Built on the idev® platform, the search found on Mardel.com produces product thumbnails as queries are typed into the search bar. These thumbnails are automatically generated based on product data that matches the terms being typed in. This technology was built exclusively for Mardel and is setting the trend for the way users are searching for items. The idev® intelligent search combined with product thumbnail functionality allows Mardel.com customers to easily locate items by visual recognition of book, music, or video cover.
Boathouse Sports - Flash Garment Configurator
www.boathouse.com
Companies that sell personalized or custom products know that their customers want to preview what their personalization will look like before buying. With the advance of Web technologies, building and previewing personalized products is becoming more accessible. For Boathouse Sports, a manufacturer of custom athletic apparel, Americaneagle.com created a custom Garment Configurator. This flash-based application was built into Boathouse.com and allows customers to fully customize products. From choosing colors and styles of stitching, lining, and fabric to creating logos and adding embellishments, the Garment Configurator takes users through a wizard-like process in order to fully customize their athletic apparel. The application then allows users to preview and save the creations for purchase. This simple tool has taken the area of product customization to a new level, by making it a truly interactive process.
Littman Bros. Lighting - Dropdown Shopping Cart
www.littmanbros.com
To streamline the online shopping process, an increasing number of e-retailers have been employing dropdown shopping carts on their Web sites. A dropdown shopping cart draws on DHTML technologies to reduce the number of steps involved with the shopping cart procedures. Specifically, it allows customers it easily view a summary of the content in their shopping cart, without having to redirect to the main shopping cart page. By remaining on the original page, it is easier for customers to continue shopping without interfering with thier navigation path. Littman Bros. lighting (www.littmanbros.com) is among the many retailers that has implemented this functionality on their Web site in an effort to improve the online shopping experience for their customers.
WeatherTech - Flash Multimedia Player
www.weathertech.com
Online multimedia can give your organization increased opportunity to reach out to your visitors in an effective way. By offering video technology, you can establish a more engaging online environment, accurately reveal your marketing message and brand, and give your visitors reason to visit your site more frequently. Specifically, one of the most innovative and exciting features that Americaneagle.com employs is the use of Flash multimedia players within Web sites. For many companies, such as WeatherTech, a Flash multimedia player can be an interactive component that allows you to upload multiple videos to a single player. The videos are presented in a high quality wider screen format and can serve to boost marketing efforts, show product demonstrations, enhance online communities, and more.
Americaneagle.com can create a customized multimedia player, designed to perpetuate your brand, as well as offer easy search functionality and increased marketing opportunities. With a Flash multimedia player tailored to your needs, your visitors can search through lists of current or archived clips, view most recent or most popular clips, email videos to a friend, and more. This gives your visitors quick and easy access to all your video content within one media player. Additionally, to help increase revenue, a multimedia player can be developed to accommodate banner ads, pre-roll commercials, and sponsored features such as online polls or contests. What's more,the Multimedia player allows you to assign a product to the video with links to the product pages for convenient ordering. Given the high quality picture and easy streaming technology, Flash multimedia players are steadily growing in demand among Americaneagle.com customers and on the Web.
American Headache Society - Online Video Presentation
http://www.americanheadachesociety.org
Many companies attend or host presentations that serve a valuable purpose. The ability to share these presentations with all relevant individuals is often limiting. The American Headache Society was looking for a solution that would allow them to effectively present an event presentation online. To engage online viewers and provide the closest possible experience to being at the event, Americaneagle.com created an online video presentation that plays a video synchronized with a PowerPoint presentation. Americaneagle.com also developed chapter selctions to allow viewers to easily skip to different portions of the presentation easily. This innovative technology can be extremely beneficial for companies that need presentations posted to a Web site for frequent viewing.
Dale and Thomas Popcorn - One Page Checkout
www.daleandthomas.com
As the demands of online shoppers have been increasing over the years, so have the e-commerce systems from which they make purchases. Dale and Thomas Popcorn turned to Americaneagle.com to create a one-page e-commerce system as part of their free popcorn promotion. The one-page checkout allowed customers to log onto a single page, view the free popcorn product, and complete the purchase, all within a single page. The secure system developed by Americaneagle.com was fully customized to Dale and Thomas Popcorn's specifications and provided an extremely easy and quick way for customers to checkout.
United Center - Interactive Seating Chart
www.unitedcenter.com
Often times, one of the primary reasons for a lost ticket sails is uncertainty about seat location. Today, this does not need to be an issue. Interactive seating charts have become increasingly prevalent on venue Web sites as the solution to visitor hesitation. With an interactive seating chart, such as the one Americaneagle.com developed for the United Center (www.unitedcenter.com), visitors can easily get a bird eye's view of the section they are interested in. With only a few clicks, visitors can then zoom into a particular section to view an actual image of that area, with the ability to zoom in closer and see views to the right and left of that. Due to its ease and convenience, this technology will be in higher demand in the near future.