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Getting There Is Half The Fun!
But finding a travel agent that fits your needs is your job -- and
the world wide web is making it easy, with more agents going on
line every day.
Ensuring that those travel agent websites are appealing, easily
accessed, and useful is TA-Net's job! A job made simpler by
FileMaker Pro - the award-winning database software application
from FileMaker Inc.!
Building an effective website used to be a difficult proposition,
and the average travel agent, however well-versed in the
intricacies of airline reservations and schedule management, just
didn't have the HTML-wrangling skills needed to really do the' job.
Sure, there are browser-based site-crafting applications out there,
but these often lack the sort of specialized functions that a good
travel site should have.
That's where TA-Net's SiteBuilder system is different. It's
designed by travel experts for travel experts -- and makes
designing an effective travel-agency web presence as easy as
pointing and clicking. And FileMaker Pro is at the heart of
SiteBuilder's success -- automatically writing the necessary HTML
code for the requested website elements, putting it all together,
and then uploading the completed site to the TA-Net servers. No
puzzling over cryptic combinations of letters and numbers and
brackets and slashes, no struggling to remember just what you're
supposed to do to put that header in boldface. In just minutes, any
travel agent can put together a website that's professional and
persuasive. "No HTML knowledge is required,” says TA-Net Vice
President of Development Davis Kitchel. "It's very close to a
graphical HTML editor -- you can make your pages look just like you
want them to look and it's done entirely with FileMaker Pro.”
Davis has long been a FileMaker user, both at work and on personal
projects, and he knows the software has the flexibility he needs.
"There's nothing I want to do that I can't make FileMaker do,” he
enthuses. "I can make it jump any hurdle to accomplish anything I
need to accomplish. And, it's a very easy tool to master!”
Small wonder, then, that TA-Net's SiteBuilder has won the official
endorsement of the American Society of Travel Agents -- or that
TA-Net has used FileMaker as the basis of a whole suite of on-line
applications for ASTA members.
Already, FileMaker is helping ASTA members cut down on the miles of
faxes that unspool in their offices every day, providing a means
for directly linking to cruise lines, resorts, and other
travel-industry suppliers. When there are special offers, special
deals, special promotions to announce -- the information goes
directly into a FileMaker-based internet application. This system
gets the information out at less than one per cent of the cost of a
mass faxing -- not to mention the savings in paper!
Wherever you're bound, there's an ASTA travel agent who can help
you get there.
And with FileMaker, you always travel first class!
Contact information
Contact Info for Customer:Davis Kitchel
Vice President/Development
TA-Net
(603) 643-4588
dkitchel@travelpromodirectory.com
http://www.taedge.com
Filemaker Contact:
Kevin Mallon
Public Relations Manager
FileMaker Inc.
408-987-7227
kevin_mallon@filemaker.com
http://www.filemaker.com
- Creating appealing, useful, easily-accessed travel agent Web sites is TA-Net's job -- a job made simpler by FileMaker Pro. TA-Net's SiteBuilder system, built around FileMaker Pro, simplifies the creation of travel agency Web sites by automatically writing the necessary HTML code for the requested Web site elements, putting it all together, and then uploading the completed site to the TA-Net servers.
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