Custom Web Applications (Bespoke development)

Got a bright idea? ... E-Commerce Consortium will work alongside your own staff to capture an initial set of requirements. These requirements then serve as a specification to determine which technology and architecture will be chosen

There's an entire world of enabling web technologies out there - such as ASP, Java, AJAX, 'Web 2.0', PHP, GoogleMaps API, Google Web Toolkit, ASP.NET, HTML, XHMTL, DHTML, XML, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL/web services, SQL, Javascript, VBscript,  .NET,  Flash Actionscript, etc. just waiting for E-CC Developers to select as most appropriate for your business model and get started! Call us to talk about your company's functional requirements.

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Creative Web Design

We try to offer ALL our clients a bespoke service as we find that nobody wants anything 'Out of the box'. Exploring and implimenting new techniques keeps us on our toes and means we can always offer something fresh and exciting to our clients.

Important considerations for good web design

• Less is more (an old adage but quite true)
• As well as looking great, designs must be user friendly, clear and functional
• Designs should work in the latest popular browsers IE6, IE7, IE8 and Firefox

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Professional, affordable, custom eCommerce Solutions, giving you:

• Reduced transaction costs for online payments
• Proven Search Engine Optimisation techniques built in, helping to reduce your ongoing marketing costs
• Your company's own style & identity, branding & logo throughout, instilling greater customer confidence
• 24-7 accessibility to change product details from any browser , connected anywhere on the Web...
• Persistent shopping baskets, allowing your customers to pick up where they left off
• Integration with Sage Pay, formerly ProTX  (one of the UK's most affordable and reliable secure online payment services)
• Private web interface to view succesful orders and abandoned baskets
• Private web interface to edit product details, thumbs, images, and delivery options
• Private web 'word-like editor' interfaces to change content within sections such as: terms & conditions, contact details, about us, etc.

Proven history of success for established Clients and start-up companies, largely due to the leading edge Search Engine Optimisation techniques built-in to the design. For example:

• www.kvmchoice.com - 1st page of Google for 'KVM Switch UK'
• www.guitar-village.co.uk - 1st page of Google for 'Guitars Surrey'

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Content Management Systems (CMS)

Take control of your pages via database driven content. Easily edit text, images, news and services with our online editor.

These features are included as standard:

• Image manager: Upload any sized Jpeg image - a small, medium & large version will be created in your library
• Page manager: Create any number of new pages then add images text. Save to preview OR publish live at a later date
• Navigation manager: Amend your navigation for your new pages with our multi-level navigation editor
• Search engine optimisation: Stick with your default Search engine phrases or make each page unique with our SEO builder

Add on some extra modules:

Latest news, Gallery, Easy popups, Service profiles, Document manager or Marketing manager 

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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Web PR:

Appearing high up in the natural Search Engine rankings for your ideal keywords can be very rewarding and business success can flourish from this. However, many online shops & websites fall short of this potential market. With this in mind, all our designs incorporate many proven Search Engine Optimisation (Replica Watches SEO) techniques. Also our SEO experts offer an ongoing service to ensure your website or ecommerce site achieves and sustains high rankings in popular Search Engines.

We offer a  free SEO appraisal of your website 

See recent results for Google rankings for Clients' websites for various key-phrases (updated August 2009):

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Web Hosting and Domain Names

Using our preferred Hosting Partners (with UK based support) allows development and maintenance costs to be kept to a minimum.

• From £100/per annum. including 10 POP mailboxes, 50MB Fast Web Space, 2GB Data Transfer/month, Windows 2003 Hosting - Shared Server
• We add service & value to servers from our partners: HotChilli Internet Solutions - consistently one of the best performers in the UK - (as recorded by indepent performance monitor: WebPerf )

• Option of MySQL Database hosting from an extra £75 p.a.
• Option of MS SQL Server Database hosting from an extra £400 p.a.
• Detailed Web Site Traffic Statistics from an extra £24 p.a.
• Note that Linux hosting is also available - please call for details
• Option of a Dedicated Server - for enterprise level applications - POA

Domain Name Registration

• 2 Year Domain Name Registration - from £25+vat

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