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 Website Design - E-Commerce

E-Commerce - selling on the internet

Internet shopping has exploded in the last 5 years. It is now a Billion pound industry, if you have something to sell the internet is the most expanding market around and something you have to get involved with.

So what is required to have an e-commerce website?

  • Shopping cart
  • database
  • dynamic shopping website
  • customer details storage area
  • quick order processing
  • payment transaction processing

Is E-Commerce expensive?

The costs of maintaining an e-commerce website involve an annual payment to the webhost.

It is recommended that you spend some time working out the requirements for your website.

  • How many pages would you expect to have?
  • Will the page content change regularly?
  • Will you need the visitor to store any information on your site?
  • Are you likely to need a database for retrieving and storing product/customer information?
  • Do you have an existing website that requires redesign? A good guide is to look at the options available below and once we have looked at your existing site we will calculate a cost based on code and design re-use.

All packages include

  1. Homepage
  2. Contact Us
  3. Sitemap
  4. Email
  5. Website hosting
  6. Domain registration

Given the above information you can now choose from the following...

 WebBasic    Summary
   from £250  
  • up to 7 pages
  • Home, sitemap, contact + 4 more
  • Hosting & Email included
  • Search Engine Optimised (SEO)
  • Major Search Engine Registration

Options :

  • Pay per click campaign
  • Flash Animation
  • Digital Photographs taken
  • Picture scanning service
  • Ongoing SEO
  • SEO Analysis
 

The WebBasic package is for websites which require little updating. Essentially information websites to give you a professional web prescence with little need to change information.

The hosting package will be cheap due to the simple nature of the website (this would drastically increase if you needed a database or content management system).

 
   
 WebMedium    Summary
   from £500  
  • up to 10 pages
  • Home, sitemap, contact + 7 more
  • Hosting & Email included
  • Search Engine Optimised (SEO)
  • Major Search Engine Registration
  • Database facility
  • User interaction coding

Options :

  • Pay per click campaign
  • Flash Animation + £50 per animation
  • Digital Photographs taken
  • Picture scanning service + £20
  • Ongoing SEO
  • SEO Analysis
 

The WebMedium package is for websites which require regular updating or some form of client interaction and information storage. For instance a site which needs to gather personal information such as forename, surname, address etc.

To store data we need a database facility (which unfortunately means more expense for the higher specification hosting package.

Depending on your requirements this package can also include a basic content management section to allow you to update certain areas of the webpages. (many clients find this adequate for their needs, however, the more complex the requirement the more coding is needed. This can result in costs rising).

 
   
 WebPro    Summary
   from £1000  
  • unlimited pages
  • Home, sitemap, contact
  • Hosting & Email included
  • Search Engine Optimised (SEO)
  • Major Search Engine Registration
  • Database facility
  • User interaction coding
  • Google Analytics
  • Content Management
  • Advanced coding

Options :

  • Pay per click campaign
  • Flash Animation + £50 per animation
  • Digital Photographs taken
  • Picture scanning service + £20
  • Ongoing SEO
  • SEO Analysis
 

The WebPro package is for websites which require little updating. Essentially information websites to give you a professional web prescence with little need to change information.

The hosting package will be cheap due to the simple nature of the website (this would drastically increase if you needed a database or content management system).

 
 
Štheitman 2007