Thinking About Setting Up An Online Shop? We Specialise In The Development Of ECommerce Websites
A well designed e-Commerce website offer a new sales channel for your company. An ecommerce website designer can provide benefits not available with traditional trading methods. An ecommerce website provides 24/7 customer access to your products and services, instant product and stock level updates, and an efficient way of selling your products online.
e-Commerce Websites - More Information
e-Commerce websites come in many different forms, styles, technologies and languages. Each e-Commerce website system has advantages and disadvantages, from 'Off the shelf ecommerce solutions' to bespoke ecommerce solutions, each offers different e-Commerce benefits.
Pre-Built e-Commerce Websites
The advantages of pre-built ecommerce websites are obvious, the main advantage is the cost, these systems are cheap to purchase and easy to install by competent ecommerce web design companies, they have facilities to deal with most products and present the products to the browser in a standard way that sometimes follows the three click purchase rule, this rule being that from the location of the product to purchase should be simple and involve just three clicks.
These e-Commerce solutions due to their nature and market arena are developed to suit the widest audience, as such they can be difficult to administer for a beginner to a software application and being designed for a large number of product types they have very limited browser display capabilities due to the system displays being templates and unalterable.
Most ecommerce website design companies do not allow the original files to be manipulated in any way, this means the system is not upgradeable and cannot be altered to suit the changes of a clients business. If the e-Commerce website system at any stage does not suit the product or service being sold then the solution and all of the initial investment is wasted.
The majority of pre-built e-commerce website systems do not export search engine friendly web pages containing your products and services. Search engine friendly pages are vital to make sure that you get your products in front of potential internet buyers.
Bespoke eCommerce Websites
Bespoke e-Commerce websites have many advantages over pre-built e-Commerce solutions. A bespoke ecommerce website is where the system itself is developed solely for the clients company and it's products and services, due to the nature of bespoke ecommerce website designs, the client becomes actively involved in all aspects of the development, ensuring that the look and functions of the ecommerce website suit the exact needs of their business.
A customised product database is central to Bespoke e-Commerce websites, Microsoft Access, or Microsoft SQL server are used for incredibly fast data return speeds. The website content can be altered quickly and easily to suit the changing needs of the client.
A closely integrated content management system is used to make sure that products and services can be quickly and easily added or updated by the client. This gives complete control of online sales to the client as to specific web design knowledge is needed in order to update the ecommerce website.
The code and future developments of the ecommerce website design is completely versatile as the system may be built upon ieasily, this means that new website sections, EG: email managers or stock control systems may be added as and when required, so as the client expands or alters its product range the solution may be altered quickly and cost effectively.
Our e-Commerce website systems integrate effective search engine optimisation techniques which ensure that your products and services are highly ranked within the major search engines.
