Fancy trading on line? Looking for a web developer to develope a web site for you? Going into ecommerce or developing a website should not be a matter of just going to a web developer and getting a quote. The very first and most important step is specifying what you want from a website! The world is full of pretty looking websites that are just about redundant as they have very few visitors - do you want to pay dearly for one of those?

We can help you plan a web or ecommerce strategy for success by taking you through structured and logical steps to achieve your organisations goals. After you have your plan, then we will assist you in the tendering process by identifying the appropriate web developers for you.

Alternatively, we can take you through the whole process including developing the website for you.

Now you may be wondering what a website is and why should my organisation have one?

A website (or web site) is a collection of related webpages (or web pages), images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed with a common domain name . A web site is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via the Internet or a private local area network.

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Typically, a website will give your organisation the ability to provide information to a wide audience 24 hour a day, 7 days a week. Very often, a well designed website will add credibility to your organisation. If you are a business that sells products and services, an ecommerce website will allow your business to sell them directly from your website. With a shopping cart linked to a payment gateway, your business can accept payment for your products before you dispatch them. Because a website is accessible almost anywhere in the world, your services and products can reach audiences all over the world. You can use your website to one of the following ways show below:-

 Types of web sites

• Affiliate: enabled portal that renders not only its custom CMS but also syndicated content from other content providers for an agreed fee. There are usually three relationship tiers. Affiliate Agencies (e.g., Commission Junction), Advertisers (e.g., eBay) and consumer (e.g., Yahoo!).
• Archive site: used to preserve valuable electronic content threatened with extinction. Two examples are: Internet Archive, which since 1996 has preserved billions of old (and new) web pages; and Google Groups, which in early 2005 was archiving over 845,000,000 messages posted to Usenet news/discussion groups.
• Blog (or web log) site: sites generally used to post online diaries which may include discussion forums (e.g., blogger, Xanga).
• Brand building site: a site with the purpose of creating an experience of a brand online. These sites usually do not sell anything, but focus on building the brand. Brand building sites are most common for low-value, high-volume fast moving consumer goods (FMCG).
• Content site: sites whose business is the creation and distribution of original content (e.g., Slate, About.com).
• Corporate website: used to provide background information about a business, organization, or service.
• Electronic commerce (eCommerce) site: a site offering goods and services for online sale and enabling online transactions for such sales.
• Community site: a site where persons with similar interests communicate with each other, usually by chat or message boards, such as MySpace or Facebook.
• City Site: A site that shows information about a certain city or town and events that takes place in that town. Usually created by the city council or other "movers and shakers".

• the same as those of geographic entities, such as cities and countries. For example, Richmond.com is the geodomain for Richmond, Virginia.
• Gripe site: a site devoted to the critique of a person, place, corporation, government, or institution.
• Forum: a site where people can sign up and discuss different topics.
• Humor site: satirizes, parodies or otherwise exists solely to amuse.
• Information site: contains content that is intended to inform visitors, but not necessarily for commercial purposes, such as: RateMyProfessors.com, Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia. Most government, educational and non-profit institutions have an informational site.
• Java applet site: contains software to run over the Web as a Web application.
• Mirror site: A complete reproduction of a website.
• News site: similar to an information site, but dedicated to dispensing news and commentary.
• Personal homepage: run by an individual or a small group (such as a family) that contains information or any content that the individual wishes to include. These are usually uploaded using a web hosting service such as Geocities.
• Phish site: a website created to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business (such as Social Security Administration, PayPal) in an electronic communication (see Phishing).
• Political site: A site on which people may voice political views.
• Porn site: A site that shows sexually explicit content for enjoyment and relaxation, most likely in the form of an internet gallery, dating site, blog, social networking, or video sharing.
• Rating site: A site on which people can praise or disparage what is featured.
• Review site: A site on which people can post reviews for products or services.
• School site: a site on which teachers, students, or administrators can post information about current events at or involving their school. U.S. elementary-high school websites generally use k12 in the URL, such as kearney.k12.mo.us.
• Social networking site: a site where users could communicate with one another and share media, such as pictures, videos, music, blogs, etc. with other users. These may include games and web applications.
• Social bookmarking site: a site where users share other content from the internet and rate and comment on the content. StumbleUpon and Digg are examples.
• Video sharing: A site that enables user to upload videos, such as YouTube and Google Video.
• Search engine site: a site that provides general information and is intended as a gateway or lookup for other sites. A pure example is Google, and the most widely known extended type is Yahoo!.
• Shock site: includes images or other material that is intended to be offensive to most viewers (e.g. rotten.com).
• Warez: a site designed to host and let users download copyrighted materials illegally.
• Web portal: a site that provides a starting point or a gateway to other resources on the Internet or an intranet.
• Wiki site: a site which users collaboratively edit (such as Wikipedia and Wikihow).