e-commerce solutions for business We can provide an attractive website for your business. With the tasteful use of color, graphics, animation, photographs, fonts, and white-space, we can get you noticed and can aid in the success of attracting customers. We will get you listed on the search engines and can advise you on the best ways to promote your on-line business. We can get sales-oriented websites hosted, install a secure shopping cart and create a logical search feature to find products. With clients both local and nationwide, our work covers web design and functional development. Our expertise and technical skills give us the ability to confidently build specialised e-commerce stores, brochure websites and other projects for the specififically for the internet. Every customer has a different business model and we are in a unique position to be able to produce the specific aspect each customer needs into the final design we create. why do you need a website? The greatest reason for having a website is to put your business or organization where people can learn more about it and contact you quckly and easily. A website is seen by many consumers as a way to learn more about you without a "sales pitch" or intimidating pressure. The "web" is looked on at the "yellow pages" of the modern world and more people are using the net everyday to find businesses and/or organizations that reflect their interest. They know they can access information anytime, day or night. Holiday or workday, your information is available 24/7, and unlike telephone directories, the business person can update their information at any time! What if I do not do business with the entire world, but only serve my local area? You can restrict the visibility of your website to a local area if you desire. The search engines allow searches to be restricted any way the user desires. Many of the people who use your Web site will be current customers, or members, wanting updated information. How will people find my Web site? The best way is to publish your web address (URL) on your business cards, stationary, etc. Search engines are another method used by Internet travelers to seek out sites containing information or products. A search engine is a free service that searches the millions of pages on the Internet for a word, phrase, or category that matches the search criteria. What will my web address be? Your web address is the URL (Universal Resource Locator) that is assigned to your web site. It is actually a number in the format 123.456.789.012. As it is difficult to remember very many sets of numbers the Internet uses DNS (Domain Name Service). This allows everyone to have a Web Site Name similar to the names you see given to telephone numbers (call 1-800 my name). You may purchase your name from a service or through us, and there will be no one else with your address but you. I have heard the term HTML. What does that mean? HTML is the language of the Internet. It means Hyper Text Markup Language. This is a "transportable" language, a language that can be read by several types of browsers on several types of computers. What does "machine readable" mean? This means files that are saved by computer. In our context it means files you have sent to us as an attachment to an e-mail or saved to disk and mailed to us. In other words, we do not have to re-type the information. Can you tell me about having pictures on my Web Site? You can use photographs, graphics or both on your site. We prefer your photos to be taken with a digital camera and sent to us "machine readable", but we can scan regular photos or custom graphics. Pictures for the web should not be dark or too large; the larger the picture, the longer it takes for people to see it. What kind of computer do I need to have a web site? You can have a web site and not even own a computer. Your pages will be "served" from a web server connected to the Internet. You will need Internet access to view your site and read the e-mail from your site. Why invest in a website? The internet is the "yellow pages" of the 21st century. Statistics show most people now go to their computer to find business addresses, phone numbers and locations instead of their phone book. With a website you can potentially reach tens of thousands of people on a daily basis... in fact, millions of people world-wide can visit or purchase from your business 24 hours a day. A website saves you time and money that would otherwise be spent on phone contacts, bulk mailings, display ads, and so forth. About 60,000 new people logging onto the Internet every week! If all these potential clients can't find you online, they will find your competition! And unlike the "Yellow Pages", you can change your ad as you need to. services we provide We cover all aspects of website development including an Innovative site design and layout details, fully integrated e-commerce, (secure shopping baskets, product databases, etc.), professional search engine maximization, ongoing search engine submission and position monitoring. We are able to ongoing technical support and website maintenance, current website re-design, graphic design, (banner adds, corporate logos, pdf forms, etc.), multimedia design, (animated graphics, streaming audio/video, etc.)  A word about marketing. Having a professional website is important, but you must also drive traffic to it. We know how search engines work, and how to optimize your web files for maximum visibility in search result lists. Don't throw your money away on services that offer to "...promote your site straight to the top of 400 search engines for just $100..." There is a growing number of such services out there, and they can't do anything for you that we don't provide as part of our service. We do consulting.  If you have an existing website that's not getting enough traffic, or that needs a face lift, or if you just need some new graphics or banner ads, give us a call. Our designers and engineers are always happy to assist.  The bottom line.  We build websites that sell and get your point across. You can make the Internet work for you in many exciting ways, so don't throw your money away on an amateur site development job. it doesn't pay in the long run!