With our VirtualBrackets feature you can display brackets (and/or provide our bracket-making technology to your users) with the same layout as the other pages on your own website, i.e. branded content. The software still runs on our servers, but you get your own subdomain (e.g. yoursite.bracketmaker.com), and you can define the HTML template to match your website. (You can also use this feature even if you don't have your own website if you just want to have your own custom page design.) You can have your logos and images, your own navigation links, etc. Here is a sample page from an actual VirtualBrackets site: http://newsday.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=204196&tclass=Nassau%20Class%20AA Compare that page with any other page on www.newsday.com and you can see how the page layouts are identical. The default subdomain is yourdomain.bracketmaker.com, or it can be brackets.yourdomain.com if you have control over your DNS (have your sysadmin or domain registrar define a cname alias to www.bracketmaker.com). There is a one-time US$50 setup fee for VirtualBrackets. There is no monthly fee as long as your template provides spaces for our banner ads. If you do not wish to have our banners displayed in your bracket pages, you can eliminate them with a recurring fee which is currently $25 per month for most websites (subject to possible change based on market conditions and how much traffic your bracket pages generate). We can get your VirtualBrackets set up within 24 hours after we receive payment for the one-time setup fee. We do not have an order form for credit cards yet (working on it). For now the quickest payment method is via PayPal. You can go to www.PayPal.com and send money to , or you can mail a check payable to BracketMaker.com, 105 NE 73rd Ave, Portland, OR 97213. You will also need to have your web designer create a new web page template with three placeholders: one for the <title> tag of each page, one for where you want the brackets to appear within the page, and one in the top fold of the page for a standard 468 x 60 banner (unless you want the ad-free VirtualBrackets). After we have received payment and enabled the VirtualBrackets feature for your account, we will send you more detailed instructions on how to create your template (the technical stuff for your web designer). Advanced Features and Customization If BracketMaker doesn't meet 100% of your requirements, you have two options. You can either build your own solution in-house, or you can leverage the functionality that already exists in BracketMaker and only have to cover the costs for the extra features you need. Creating tournament bracket management software from scratch is a very long and costly project. We know this from experience. :-) Chances are you can significantly lower the cost of your web development and/or marketing projects by outsourcing the work to BracketMaker. Systems Integration If you need any kind of programmatic and/or data integration of BracketMaker with your own website (say for example you want login/passwords to be synchronized for the convenience of your users), our system can interact with yours via url/form parameters or XML-based technologies such as AJAX and Web Services (SOAP, RPC, etc). It would just be a matter of customizing our software to meet your needs (for which we can provide an estimate) and depending on your requirements, you might have to build an interface on your end, too. Enterprise Licensing You may prefer to install our technology on your own application and database servers. Porting to different programming languages and/or DBMS systems is also a possibility. We do offer these options, but please be aware the setup and licensing fees are exponentially greater than our VirtualBrackets and Systems Integration solutions. You may also need to purchase and maintain additional hardware and/or software. Last but not least is a requirement to sign a non-compete agreement and other legal documents that protect our software copyrights. So, please, serious inquiries only! :-) Please contact us asap to request any of the above options. If you need custom features, please include documentation of your specific requirements and also preferred deadline if you have one.

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