Specialties

• Professional Services Web Sites
• Restaurant Web Site Design
• Municipal Web Design
• School District Web Design
• Home Builder Web Design
• Photographer Web Design
• Manufacturer Web Design
• Non-Profit Web Design
• Medical Web Design
• Banquet Hall Web Design

Whether you are an attorney, public accountant, consultant or landscape designer, Distant Horizon can help you to put your best foot forward on the World Wide Web. We have designed hundreds of professional services web sites over the past eight years, ranging from one person start-ups to $60 million dollar firms.

The most critical components of a professional services web site are credibility and perceived image. In other words, you have to go beyond just "talking the talk" ... there are millions of web sites out there that just list services and capabilities. A Distant Horizon web site uses Case Studies, "Before and After" images, white papers and educational information to separate your business from the fray. Our goal is to get that prospective customer to pick up the phone, or fill out that inquiry form and start the process.

Despite the high quality of our work, we have developed packages that can accommodate nearly any budget, so do not hesitate to call Brandon Wilson at 708-590-6210 x101

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Some of Distant Horizon's earliest web site development experience was working with restaurants. Owning a restaurant is no easy job ... and designing a cost-effective restaurant web site is challenging as well. Distant Horizon offers two options: custom design, or use of our Proven Structure Restaurant Web Site which includes the following features:

• Full Self-Maintainable Menu
• A branding message that carries across every page of the site
• Location, Map and Driving Directions
• Hours of Operation
• Secure Online Gift Card Purchase
• 1 IPIX Virtual Tour
• About Us
• Self-Maintainable News

Optional Features

• Support for multiple locations
• Additional IPIX virtual tours
• Shopping cart for merchandise
• Online reservation forms
• Broadcast E-Mail System

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Community web sites, such as Village/City web sites, Chamber of Commerce web sites, Park District web sites, Fire Department web sites, Police Department web sites and Historical Society web sites are very important to keeping tax payers and stakeholders in the community informed and participating in local activities.

Distant Horizon has extensive experience working with community web sites including many suburban school districts, the Frankfort Chamber of Commerce and the Bedford Park District. You have two options for your site, an entirely custom web site, or a Proven Structure web site which includes commonly requested features in a flat fee package.

To discuss your project, call Brandon Wilson at 708-590-6210 x101

Distant Horizon’s first school district project was for District 146 in Tinley Park, Illinois. Since then many other suburban districts have chosen Distant Horizon because of our unique approach to school district web sites:

• We treat a school district like the large corporation it is, with many stakeholders and a definite need for clear identity and professionalism.
• Our Proven Structure School District HTML skeleton results in a visually appealing web site with great search engine optimization and plenty of growing room.
• We do not assume that the best web site is one where every single employee has editing privileges on the web site.
• We are flexible in assisting school IT departments in the process of integrating third-party school management applications such as PowerSchool and Ventures for Excellence into the web strategy.
• We offer phased, cafeteria-style pricing which allows districts to pursue a comprehensive strategy while gradually spending money.
• We take over public web site hosting to remove typical web site hosting vulnerabilities from the school network.
• Our optional Teacher PagesTM system allows every teacher to contribute content to the web site without affecting the branding or reliability of the web site.
• Our optional ASP Calendar System allows an unlimited number of separate web-based calendars with separate editing privileges.

To discuss your project, call Brandon Wilson at 708-590-6210 x101

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Distant Horizon's experience in home builder web sites began with Gallagher and Henry Construction (www.gallagherandhenry.com) in the late 1990s. Due to our experience in self-maintainable web content and virtual tour photography, also known as IPIX, builders and property managers such as the Habitat Company (www.habitat.com) have had great success using Distant Horizon for the development of their web site presence. Add to that a firm grounding in locally-focused search engine optimization and Pay Per Click and you can have a very lethal builder web site!

Builder web sites may include content such as:

• Digital Photography and Virtual Tours
• Floorplans and Elevations
• Virtual Furniture Arrangers
• Company we Keep or selected manufacturers/brands
• Homeowner testimonials
• About the Town information about each area that the builder is building in
• Queries and Drill Downs to lead buyers to the most appropriate home for them
• Site Plans and Standard Features
• Models For Sale
• New Home Questionnaire (Response Form)
• Online Home Customization
• Model Comparison Functionality
• Mortgage Calculators
• Refer a Friend Forms
• Glossary of Home Buying Terms
• Suggested Lenders
• Outline of the Home Buying Process

To discuss your project, call Brandon Wilson at 708-590-6210 x101

A photographer web site has only two purposes: to cast a photographer’s work in its best light…and to provide contact information. That is why the cornerstone of the Distant Horizon Photographer web design package is a self-maintainable photo gallery which is scalable to accommodate different categories of images, with no limits on the number of photographs displayed.

For a Chicago corporate photographer visit www.richardlanenga.com.

For Chicago maternity photography and Chicago baby photography, visit www.smithchicagophotography.com

To discuss your project, call Brandon Wilson at 708-590-6210 x101

Distant Horizon has designed a number of very sophisticated manufacturing web sites over the years. Do you deal in CAD drawings, solid models and MSDS sheets? No problem, we get it. Do you walk a fine line between selling direct and a network of distributors and manufacturer's reps? We get it. Is your sale a very complex process with a very specific niche of clientele? We get it.

That's the benefit of hiring a web site development firm with MBA's, CPA's and engineers on staff that are ready to help. That's why companies like Bison Gear, Smalley Steel Ring, Dekker Vacuum Technologies and Kocour Company chose Distant Horizon to execute their web strategy. Whether your site requires complex database programming, advanced searching ability, mounds of technical data or even online ordering and configuration, we've got it covered. While we’re completing the difficult technical tasks we won't forget to make your firm look its best and handle the public relations role of a web site.

To discuss your project, call Brandon Wilson at 708-590-6210 x101

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Distant Horizon has designed a great many non-profit web sites for charities, educational organizations, schools, governmental organizations and churches. Due to our generous non-profit discount rates, even the most fiscally stringent organization can have a top-quality web presence.

Although custom web design and functionality is common in our non-profit web design projects, we also offer non-profit pricing for our Web-Based Calendar System, our Broadcast E-Mail System, Start Cart E-Commerce System and other modules.

To discuss your project, call Brandon Wilson at 708-590-6210 x101

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Distant Horizon has designed web sites for Dentists, Psychotherapists, Chiropractors and specialists such as Ear, Nose and Throat Doctors.

Where professionalism and patient confidence is of utmost importance, a medical practitioner must choose a web developer very carefully. Distant Horizon designs web sites that give a classy, understated first impression.

• Contact Numbers, Office Hours
• Physician Profiles
• Location Information, Maps And Driving Directions
• Patient Forms To Save Time During That First Visit
• Important Educational Information About Common Ailments And Treatments
• Helpful Answers To Common Questions
• Insurance Coverage Information

To discuss your project, call Brandon Wilson at 708-590-6210 x101

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Distant Horizon has enjoyed a number of prominent banquet facility web site design projects over the years, including sites for the Signature Room at the 95th in Chicago (2000), Georgios Banquets in Orland Park (2001), Cog Hill Golf Course in Lemont, St. Andrews Golf and Country Club in West Chicago and most recently Martinique Banquets in Burbank (2006).

Common features you will find on Distant Horizon banquet hall web site designs include:

• Complete Menus
• Virtual Tour Of Banquet Rooms
• Samples Of Chair Covers, Napkins, Cake Choices Etc.
• Inquiry Forms
• Packages for Weddings, Cotillions, Retirement, Corporate Events
• Detailed Lists Of Amenities
• Special "Wedding Pages" For Upcoming Weddings

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