Dynamic Websites

On the Web today, content is king. And real information is what visitors look for. Any successful web site that attracts repeat visitors has to have fresh content that's regularly updated. One can keep adding pages to a website daily, or several times a day even... But things can get unmanageable very quickly. Since more often than not, the people providing the content are not the same people handling its design. Maintenance of a content-driven site can be a difficult and sometimes costly affair. Dynamic websites make it easier for you to maintain a large site the easy way.

Database driven sites

Instead of writing an HTML file for every page of your site, you only need to add the content to the database and the site is served using the information in the database. This way, you not only have an easily managed website, you can also quickly upgrade the site without losing the information.

E-commerce and Online Shopping

Online sales processing using credit card based transactions may not be quite as straightforward as you may think. Many website owners new to e-commerce are under the impression that they just plug a shopping cart into their site and that's it. But a cart is only one part of the whole e-commerce process.

"I don't want to support online payments"

In case you were thinking about avoiding online credit card transactions to sell your product, think again. The days of 'send me a check or money order' are long gone. In the vast majority of cases, customers will want your product, and want it now.

Even if the product or service you are offering is totally unique, you will miss many sales if you don't implement some form of online credit card processing. But implementing a processing service doesn't necessarily mean shelling out big dollars up front.

Your site visitors are, for the most part, window shoppers and browsers. A commercial web site's aim is to convert these browsers into buyers.

A good e-commerce site is more than just a home page, product page and shopping cart. The three aspects are the shopping cart, payment gateway and merchant account.

Shopping carts

The product catalog is arguably the most important part of any e-commerce venture. Not only will site visitors need to intuitively access and navigate the catalog, but the site administrator also needs to quickly and efficiently maintain product listings, prices, promotions, shipping costs and much more. This may not be a big issue for a small e-commerce site with only a few items, but for a store offering hundreds (or even thousands) of products this is a critical factor.

Besides simply showcasing products, the shopping cart collects customer details, assembles the order, calculates price, shipping and tax, then submits the data to you and a credit card payment gateway for further processing. The funds are then transferred into your bank or merchant account if the transaction is successful. It's important to realize that the shopping cart, payment gateway and merchant account are three very separate components.

Merchant accounts and Credit card processors

Some type of Internet merchant account is necessary in order to have a place to receive funds from credit card sales. We can build an e-commerce site to match any merchant account of your choice.

Probably the most confusing part of any e-commerce setup is selecting a merchant account provider. If you make enquiries with a company and they don't respond within 24 hours, or are somewhat vague in their responses - run like hell away from them. Banks are notorious for utilizing poorly trained salespeople rather than those with hands-on product knowledge or an understanding the complexities of e-commerce.

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Site Search

Add a powerful custom search engine to your website!

Full-text search engine for your website

Site search is a crucial component of any medium-to-large web site. Our custom search solution provides fast and powerful full-text searching. This low-cost component will let visitors search for static and dynamic web pages (HTML, PHP, ASP, CF, etc.), as well as numerous document formats such as PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS and SWF.

Feature packed search solution

Search images and display thumbnails in search results. Despite its ease of use, this is one of the most feature packed solutions on the market. It offers search results sorted by relevance or date, wildcard searching, exact phrase matching*, "Google-like" context results*, highlighting matched words, spelling suggestions, synonyms, graphical statistic reports, international language support, and more.

Custom site-search even offers incremental indexing, image searching and thumbnails and content filtering, and will also find MP3 audio files.

Site Security

Many customers will be unwilling to make any purchase from a site that does not offer the appropriate level of security. The use of a secure server means exceptional security. This promotes a sense of trust and reliability that will offer shoppers peace of mind, which in turn, will boost the bottom line.

FEATURES

Sell Tangible or Intangible Products: Sell tangible products (such as DVD's or books) as well as intangible products (such as eBooks) all from the one shop.

Advanced Product Variations and Options: Unlimited number of product categories, each with their own price, weight, SKU, stock and image.

Shipping & Payment Integration: Nearly all major payment gateways are supported. Ask us for details about your preferred payment gateway.

Extensive Use of "AJAX" Technology: Where possible reloading a page to display data has been replaced with "instant access" using client-side retrieval techniques.

Custom solutions: have it the way you like it. We can build your online shop to your exact specifications.