June 15, 2006
Ajax gets the job done!

CINCINNATI—June 2006— Have you ever fancied yourself an interior decorator or a designer of sorts? Have you ever just wanted to make a room all yours? At KidCarpet.com, you can start by designing a carpet that suits your style with the new "Design Your Own" product line.

Intended mostly for architects, businesses, and schools, this new "Design Your Own" product line comes to life with an interactive tool that allows customers to envision what they can do with their spaces. Visitors to the site can choose from two styles of carpet—Cocoon Carpet Tiles and Joy In A Box Carpet Tiles. Thanks to a cool new programming language called Ajax, site users can design their very own carpets.

US Digital Partners has deployed this state-of-the-art programming technology to build custom functionality that will not only fulfill customers’ needs, but will provide a lot of fun along the way. Visitors to the site can view sample rooms that use the two styles of carpet tiles. But the fun part comes when they really dig in and start to create their own carpet patterns. With the Cocoon Carpet Tiles, users can choose from nine color combinations to produce a one-of-a-kind look. Using Joy in a Box Carpet Tiles, users can mix and match eight colors of carpet tiles to get the look they want. And like magic, they can easily change their color combinations and patterns with just the click of a mouse.

Ajax is the new programming application that makes this website so much fun. While Ajax is not used very often, US Digital was able to apply it to give site visitors the opportunity to use their imaginations and create the style of carpet they’re looking for. Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. The intent is to make Web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. This is meant to increase the Web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.

Jim Banks, President of KidCarpet.com, is very pleased with the new site, the ability for users to interact, and the knowledge and expertise of US Digital Partners. “We wanted to give our website a new look and also create a buzz in rolling out our new product line. We felt that making the site interactive was the best way to demonstrate our product. US Digital Partners was able to put it all together for us and help us accomplish our goals.”

In recognizing what technology can do, US Digital Partners has created a tool that will really help KidCarpet.com grow their business. And with the next phase of the website, US Digital will enable visitors to the site to design a new style of carpet—one with a personal image on it. KidCarpet.com has the ability to put a customer’s image into a carpet, and soon the website will have the ability to show customers just what that carpet will look like. Thanks to the team members at US Digital, site users will be able to upload an image, view it online, and then order their carpets. Talk about a cool idea—this one takes the cake!

KidCarpet.com has been in business since 1998. Serving a vast array of markets, they offer more than 100 different styles of top-quality, commercial-grade carpet and area rugs designed for kids. For more information visit KidCarpet.com.

US Digital Partners helps companies capitalize on the Web. As a Cincinnati web design firm, we make world-class capabilities available and affordable. Our “back to business basics” approach has helped some of the most recognizable companies in the world develop sound business strategy, world-class execution, and dependable ongoing website management.

The mission of US Digital Partners is to deploy and manage websites that result in higher revenue, reduced costs, and increased customer loyalty for our clients. This mission has proven successful both for large corporations and small businesses. For more information visit www.USDigitalPartners.com.