Ecommerce Development
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Every business should have an e commerce site by now. They are easy to maintain and more affordable than most would think. Not sure if your business could benefit from a business web site? Find out here...
The Basics e commerce package will include everything that your business needs to get up and running on the web. Your site will be connected to a database that will hold all of your inventory and orders. The site will be dynamically filled with the information from the database regarding your products. Your customers will be able to purchase items from your site through a custom shopping cart, complete with a secure checkout process. Most e commerce sites need a lot of custom features that are created on a site to site basis. The below features come standard with all of our ecommerce sites. The design of your page: [more info]
E-commerce solutions that work:
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Completion Time A rough draft of your site is usually completed in about a week. This draft includes basic layout and design features as well early stages of the ecommerce functions. From here we will ask you to critique the design. For more information on how the development process works, please visit our procedure page. Get a FREE quote now!Web DesignWe know what it takes to make a stunning website that will attract customers. We use a mixture of rich animations and custom graphics to deliver a robust web site ready for your customers.The design of your web site is how customers will judge your company. A good website can make your company look top-notch while a poorly designed site can keep customers away. The key to a good design is simple; let customers easily find what they are looking for. This means easy navigation from page to page and an organized, consistent layout. We start by collecting your content (pictures, text, videos, etc.) and streamlining them for use in a web page. You choose as much as you want about your site. The layout scheme, colors, backgrounds, text font, etc. all get to be specified by you. We take your ideas and make them into web pages. The entire time we are collaborating with you. We offer unlimited consultations with your actual web designer for free! We feel that the more we communicate with you, the better you will like your site. Enjoy constant communication with us by either phone or email. Dynamic ContentDynamic content offers you the ability to have an ever changing website. Each time a customer logs on to one of your pages, the information will have changed. Through the use of a database you can easily update the content within your site to display up to date information.Dynamic content is especially useful to businesses that want to offer an online catalog. Items and their descriptions and prices will automatically be inserted into your catalog. Just update your database and you will have another item inserted into your catalog automatically. This makes it especially easy to change prices and add more detailed descriptions. This way you don't have to go through the difficult task of redoing page after page just to update some prices. Change it once and see the effects take place site-wide! Dynamic content makes it easy to update virtually anything on your website but it is very difficult to code and create. Most other web designers charge extra for this service but The Basics includes it in our complete business package. Customers are looking for dynamic content whether they know it or not. They don't want to stare at the same thing week after week. Satisfy your customers with dynamic content. In order for dynamic content to work on your site, your host must allow you to have access to a MySQL database and PHP. Most web hosts provide MySQL databases for free as the software can be downloaded from the internet for free. PHP is currently the most popular programming language for the web and is used to communicate with the MySQL database. Knowledge of PHP is not required to update your database. Depending on your web host, updating your database is usually very convenient. With most you don't have to know any code, its all done with a GUI, Graphical User Interface. This means that all the updates to your database are done in a visual environment. If all this seems confusing, The Basics helps you set-up and deploy your database system. We will touch more on this in the “Publishing” section. Shopping Cart and Secure CheckoutAll business websites need a way to complete their customers' orders with an easy way for them to checkout and pay. Using a merchant account for credit card processing and letting us implement into your site locally or remotely offers a clear solution.Do not be fooled by the other web designers who offer you shopping carts. Many designers use shopping cart scripts. Although this saves some time, it is often at the sacrifice of your design and the flow of the page. We custom program every end of our pages and this includes your shopping cart. The cart will come out looking like the rest of your site and not some module that you bought on a script site. The Basics now offers merchant accounts/gateways for real-time credit card processing. If you are planning on accepting credit cards on your site, you will require these services. Visit our credit card processing page for more information. Once all of this is done, you will be accpeting credit cards on your site in no time! Scripts and ProgrammingScripts are used to process data. Most web pages process data and the customer never even knows it. Behind the scenes a script goes to work to process the customers' request. This could be anything from submitting a form to performing a search. Scripts can be written in many different languages but by far the most versatile is PHP. PHP is practically universal, being accepted by almost all web hosts.Since scripts are written in a different language than the web pages, most web designers either do not write the scripts or charge extra for them. In order for your pages to work correctly and your data to be processed, a script must be written. It simply would not make sense to develop a page and then not have it work because there is no script. That is why we will provide the scripts that your website will need at no extra charge. Form ValidationA problem that most small businesses encounter with online orders is forms filled out incorrectly. There is a simple solution to this and that is called “form validation.” Form validation requires the use of even another programming language called Javascript. But as a part of our complete business package we will validate all of your online forms.When a form is “validated” it means that the customer cannot submit the form until it is filled out correctly and in its entirety. If they try to submit it before it is finished a message box will appear informing them of their errors and will ask them to correct them. This is a very useful feature as it guarantees that all of your forms will be correct. User Authentication System (member login)All your site visitors to become a member to your site and gain access to restricted pages. You can control this through requiring a username and a password. The pages that they are allowed to view can be set by you. All of the users information is stored in a database which you, as an administrator control. This means that you can remove/edit accounts as you please.RESTRICTED ACCESS DevelopmentOn completion of your first rough draft, we test it on our servers and then present it to you within a pre-defined time period. You will have as long as you want to review your site. During this time we edit and tweak the site to your specifications. You are allowed an unlimited amount of edits so change all you want.When you feel your site is finished you let us know that it is complete. We then move on to helping you publish it to the web and send you a hard copy of it to your address. We will take care of all server setup such as creating databases and file access. MarketingThe common misconception of opening an online business is that “ if you build it, they will come. ” This is far from the truth. A website is just like any brick-and-mortar store. You must still advertise. Advertising on the web is not all that much different than advertising in the real-world. It's all about publicity.Publicity on the net means:
High rankings with the search engines do not come easy. It takes a lot of time for the search engines' crawlers to index your pages. Even then it doesn't mean you will be ranked high. We will help speed up the process by submitting your site to hundreds of search engines and directories. This way your site will instantly be registered with the search engines. We will recommend the use of some paid services . Becoming a sponsored link will put you on the first page of Google and other top-rated search engines. This will allow you to be seen by millions of people each day! We will also suggest pay-per-click services that also help publicize your website. Link exchanges are by far the most cost effective way to promote your site. Search engines such as Google look at the amount of external links to your site to help determine whether you are a worthy of being ranked high in their results. Exchanging links with sites of similar subjects increase your page rank and hopefully your rank in the search engines. We will refer you to some sites that offer free link exchange searches. This will allow you to find hundreds of people to exchange quality links with. Banner exchanges are just like link exchanges. Have you ever visited a website that had a banner advertisement at the top of their page? Banner exchanges usually cost money and often take from the design and look of your pages. In exchange they offer a lot of traffic. It will be up to you to decide if the cost outweighs the benefit. Creating an email campaign for your sites subscribers is a very effective way to announce special deals and promotions. Instantly send hundreds or even thousands of letters or coupons out for free. This is much cheaper than conventional mail. We will inform you about the legalities of email campaigning and how to put together an effective one. When a customer can not resist buying your product because he/she thinks they are getting such a good deal you know you have put together an effective promotion. Offering discounts and specials often increases the chances of your customer buying now. Frequent updates to your site keep customers viewing it time and time again. Updates are made easy with the use of dynamic content that comes free with the complete business package. Get a FREE quote now
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