Our programmers and designers are highly skilled in all types of website development and design projects. No project is too big or too small for us. We make inexpensive basic websites with a few pages and much more complex ecommerce, Flash and database driven websites with very robust features.
Types of websites available:
A Basic, Static or Brochure style website is usually a few pages that describe a business in brochure format. You might want to have a few pages such as: Home – About Us – FAQ’s - Services – Contact Us. This type is often used by but not limited to lawyers, doctors, dentists, small business owners involved in services or trades people. This is the simplest type of website to make and generally the type that beginners make. To keep it from looking like it was made by a beginner you’ll want our highly skilled graphic artists to come up with a beautiful yet professional design suitable for the type of business you own.
A Subscription or Membership website may have news, research, stock market information or entertainment that is of interest to groups of people. The subscription or membership may be for specific types of information or for a period of time. A properly made subscription or membership website will involve some complex programming functions. For example you may want the website to automatically email subscribers on a predetermined schedule to let them know that their membership will soon expire. Offers could be included in the email such as “Renew now and save 10%”.
Social networking websites will include robust features similar to facebook.com such as the ability to connect with other users, post pictures or videos, participate in forums and more. The scope of the project is only limited by your imagination. You may also include membership within social networking and then it becomes a type of ecommerce subscription website.
Ecommerce or E-commerce simply means that you can click on a picture of a product and purchase that product. This can be for the retail or wholesale selling of products; the website can also have both. In a Retail/Wholesale website the wholesale buyers fill out a form online and request a wholesale buying login. The site owner determines if the buyer should have wholesale privileges and clicks an approve or deny button. This involves a level of sophistication that beginners in programming lack. Beginners will use a third party shopping cart system and integrate it into a static page website. We custom make our shopping carts to suit the needs of the business. The best part is that the shopping cart is part of your website so you aren’t relying on a third party to remain in business for your site to function. There are many options available which the owner should consider. An ecommerce website can be somewhat simple but it may also have very complex functions. We can use shipping costs from FedEx or UPS to provide live shipping prices to the buyers. We can integrate this with the website owners existing FedEx or UPS account to pass on the savings. We can also add in a handling charge which optionally your clients could see on it may be included in the total shipping cost. A database can be setup to store info on buyers. Additionally a newsletter section can be setup to email customers on a regular schedule. We setup ecommerce sites which sell perishable food products. This requires some logic being built in to recognize that a shipping deadline may have passed. For example after 4:00pm you may want to notify clients that the products ordered will not ship until the following day. However, what do you do when the following day is Friday? The buyer is then presented with the option to pay extra for Saturday delivery or have it ship Monday for Tuesday arrival.
Business or Commercial websites can be for any type of business and may include ecommerce. A typical business client will be a manufacturer, healthcare company, retail store with an online catalog, hotel, entertainment, import export company or literally any other type of business. The Business or Commercial type is often like the Basic or Static type but generally has a lot more pages. Often it will use a database so that the owners can make regular updates with a content management system also known as a CMS. However there are many that are not database driven and just have a lot of static pages which may also be called HTML pages.
Non-profit businesses like working with us because they often need to raise cash so that they can provide more services to more people. They always want a professional looking design but can’t afford to spend too much since they rely upon government grants, fundraising events and donations. We are able to help them tell their story online without spending a fortune.
Dynamic or Database Driven websites have an admin or login area where the owner can enter the backend and make updates, add new pages, send newsletters to groups and add photos to a gallery. Absolutely no programming skills are required for the owners to make these updates on their own. This type is best for business owners who know they will need to make regular updates. If you sell clothing for example, fashions change all the time and it would only be logical to make the updates on your own rather than pay a programmer. The owners tend to be in businesses where things change often, not only fashion but manufacturers who have new product lines coming out or businesses that attend trade shows often. Small, medium and large businesses often prefer this type because once they pay for the production the ongoing upkeep is entirely up to them so they don’t have to pay someone to constantly make changes. Obviously this type of website has to be setup in a way that makes adding new pages or editing pages very simple. One of the features that many of our clients like is the fully automated email newsletter system. The way it works is that if someone fills out the “Contact Us” form then they are added to a group called “Contact Us”. If they buy products online then they are added to a list we could call “Clients”. We are able to have a series of emails go out to these groups automatically. The “Contact Us” group would get one series of emails and the “Clients” would get an entirely new set of emails. If someone made a purchase you could have a “thank you for your purchase” email go out immediately and then in 10 days a follow up email and in 25 days an email could offer a discount if they place a new order within X days using a coupon code provided within the email. There are many possibilities when you have a database driven website.
Flash is a program made by Adobe which we use to create animations within websites. Sometimes our clients want the entire website to be made using Flash. A few years ago this was a huge problem with search engines and still is a problem for older Flash based websites. Today Flash website designers who keep up with the times use the latest version of Adobe Flash to design websites that are search engine friendly. The problem in the past was that everything created in Flash appeared to be nothing but a picture to the search engines. Since search engines only understand text and they can’t actually view pictures these sites used to always rank very poorly. Today we are able to avoid this problem and make very beautiful websites with a lot of animation. It should be noted that when we use the word “animation” we don’t mean cartoons. Flash websites are not children’s websites; many Business and Ecommerce websites use Flash to enhance the beauty of the design with motion, sound and video.
Download for a fee websites are the type where you are actually buying a product but there is no shipping because you receive the product on your computer as soon as your payment has been processed. The best example of this would be iTunes.com where you pay a fee and download a song. However, it is also very common to see online books downloaded for a fee. Since a transaction is being made this is a type of ecommerce for a specific purpose.
Content based websites make money by selling advertising online. The site could be on any topic such as Mountain Biking or Cooking. On a cooking site there could be recipes and ads would appear for food products, cooking utensils, cooking classes, culinary universities and so on. This would be a combination of content, database and if products are sold online then it could also include ecommerce.
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