Released on: April 23, 2008, 6:58 am

Press Release Author: Jennifer Astete-Lewis/Web Full Circle

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: Web Full Circle Designs Orientation Website and Customized
Application to Streamline Gaston College's Registration Process


Press Release Body: Charlotte, North Carolina
April 11, 2008---
Gaston College's New Online Student Orientation Site is live at
www.gastoncollegeonline.com. Students at Gaston College now have the opportunity to
complete their entire orientation process virtually. This method allows students to
fit orientation into their increasingly busy schedules. Moreover, the new online
registration system solidifies Gaston College's investment in enhancing the
flexibility of the services which they offer to their students in this evolving
information technology laden age.
The New Online Student Orientation Website was design by Charlotte web design and
marketing firm Web Full Circle. Web Full Circle designed the website, which was
designed using PHP, to allow students to replace the previous orientation method
which required students to come to the campus and also required for the orientation
process to be monitored to ensure attendance. Using the new Web Full Circle
designed application, the administration system tracks who has attended the
orientation and also sends out a remember message to remind those who has not
completed the orientation that the deadline is looming. Web Full Circle developed
the application so that the application monitors the progression of the students as
they complete the viewing of five videos on subjects ranging from resources to money
matters. At the end of each section of the video, Web Full Circle programmed review
questions in order to gauge a specific level of comprehension from the user. Once
the user completes the videos and their respective questions, the viewer then is
given a registration date. Web Full Circle programmed the application so that the
administrator can set up the registration date as well as the number of students who
can register on each date. Ultimately, this new website and the application both
designed by Web Full Circle provide Gaston College with a cost-saving tools and
provide Gaston College students with more flexibility. Moreover, the videos also
serve as a long-term resource for students, as student can log back in at a later
date to review the videos.
In keeping with the progressive mindset of Gaston College, Web Full Circle also
included in the application an automated PowerPoint Conversion script which allows
the online videos to be easily replaced by simply uploading them and clicking on an
icon which translates the PowerPoint into Flash Video which is then updates the
current video. From a purely aesthetic standpoint, Web Full Circle designed a
website for Gaston College which is both professional as well as visually pleasing,
which is all in addition to high-level functionality provided by the custom designed
application.
Web Full Circle is a web design and web marketing firm located in Charlotte, North
Carolina. Since 1996 under its former name, Web Full Circle has provided consistent
high quality, enterprise-level information technology services to a variety of
well-known Charlotte businesses. Following a recent merger with a local web media
company, Web Full Circle has been able to expand the scope of its offerings to
include networking as well as web marketing and web design. Due to their consistent
growth, Web Full Circle has also had the ability to hone specific high-level skills
relative to search engine optimization which have allowed it to provide a powerful
web presence for their clients, including search engine rankings that have
solidified client's branding. Web Full Circle prides itself on the strength of
their combined 50 years of information technology experience and its
customer-centric approach to forging long-term relationships with their customers.
For additional information about Web Full Circle, please contact them at
info@webfullcircle.com or by calling 980-320-0518. Their portfolio of client
websites can also be viewed by visiting their website as
http://www.webfullcircle.com Web Full Circle's headquarters is located at 3101
International Airport Drive, Suite 400, Charlotte, North Carolina adjacent to
Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.


Web Site: http://www.webfullcircle.com

Contact Details: Web Full Circle
3101 International Airport Drive, Suite 400
Charlotte, NC 28208
980-320-0518
704-731-0825
jennifer.astete@webfullcircle.com