Web Manager Page

Dear visitor.

Thank you very much for the time you spend in the universe of Beatronic Supply, I hope you will find what you are seeking. I have tried to create this site in a way, which will make it easy, fast and logic to find the information needed.

The design philosophy.
Call me "old fashion" but the design philosophy was always focusing on speed and easy/logical way to navigate on the site, over a fancy  look. This "less are more-policy" has been fixed since we entered the web in 1997 but in 2010, I had to give in for an increasing demands for a more modern design and more facilities. The current version (E) offers our users a lot of services but it comes at a cost - speed. Nevertheless, I hope that users still find the site in good balance and appreciate the new features.

The .com .biz and .eu-sites are made in English since this language is common among our subsidiary offices and suppliers a round the world. Nevertheless, parts of the main site is now under translation, the Danish and Polish website has already been translated and are running independent. Next up is the Czech and Ukraine website as an English written .com site, will not rank very high on the different domestic versions of Google and other search engines. These translated sites are available under there own domains e.g. beatronic.dk, beatronic.pl, beatronic.cz etc. and the sites are only partly translated, covering the products most relevant for the local customers. The .com site is still the main domain and are also the only site providing the download services.

Furthermore, we are buying domain names both on behalf of our offices and suppliers. Today we have currently registered the following domains:

* (domain no longer active) Most of the different domains are linked to specific sub pages on our site and not only the index page.

The design and tools
For visors with an interest in web-design; the Beatronic website has been running and under continues developing since the autumn of 1997. The two first editions of our website, Issue A & B, were made in MS Publisher 95/98, since this simple tool also was already used to create adds, but due to limitations in Publisher, Issue C was created in FrontPage 2000/2002 which gave a much more dynamic site and a lot of facilities.

The "skeleton" or base structure and design edition (Issue D) was done in FrontPage 2003 but most functionalities were driven by a lot of different JavaScript written directly in HTML, e.g. the whole navigation and log-in was managed by JavaScript. Another major difference compered to previous versions where that the D version was total frame-less.

The current website, version E, has been created in a Joomla Open Source CMS. The base layout was done by an extern web-design company but failing to complete the task, we have selected another company, Webkommunikator.dk, which is our current partner. The website is optimized for a resolution of minimum 1024*768, since this is the most common minimum resolution. Some users is still using a resolution of 800*600. The site will still work in this low resolution since it will re-size automatically but some sub pages will create a horizontal scroll bar as well which isn't optimal.

Track n' trace
We are using a lot of different trackers and statistic programs in order to monitor your behavior on our site. These data are used to optimize the site and make it even more effective. Apart for statics which are in our web-hotel, we use extern trackers/counters like; Extreme Tracking and Google Analytics.

Even we keep an open eye on the visitors and there behaviors on our site, even demand users to enter data about them self in order to be allowed to enter certain parts of the site, we would never misuse this information for e.g. spamming purposes. The solo purpose of this tracking is to improve the site and optimize it to the visitors needs.

Updates and revisions
One of the most important tasks when running any website is for the site to be updated on a regular basis. On average we do updates on a monthly basis. In the table below you can see the different editions and the date of the last update. A change in the issue letter indicate a major function and design change. The revision no. indicates an update and minor function changes.

Best regards

Steen Lauritzen

IT & web mananger

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