Web Development Services
E-commerce & Custom Web Programming
Charlottesville Web Development
We are a Charlottesville web development company, delivering enterprise quality web programming at small business prices.
What Is Enterprise Quality Web Programming?
Executives often insist that corporate website coding meet high standards. These knowledgeable professionals realize that top quality programming can positively impact the company's bottom line. Here's a peek at three benefits corporate websites derive from top quality website coding — officially known as "Best Practices" and "Web Standards Compliance."
#1 Web Accessibility
Corporate legal departments are keenly aware that Target Corporation was successfully sued for discrimination by the National Federation Of The Blind for not taking steps to make the Target Corporation website accessible. Target settled the class action for $6 million and suffered a major public relations setback.
#2 Capturing A Wider Audience
Show me a corporate marketing executive not interested in reaching large untapped markets. We'll show you someone about to lose his or her job. Marketers understand that web accessibilty is not merely a legal liability issue. In fact, according to a report issued December, 2008, "Americans With Disabilities: 2005, Household Economic Studies" (PDF Document) 18.7 percent of non-instutionalized Americans suffer from a disability, that's nearly 1 of every 5, a total of 54.4 million people. Imagine the impact on sales if your website caters to this enormous market segment better than your competitors' sites do.
#3 Search Engine Results
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is widely believed to be the most effective marketing channel to reach new customers. Marketing department heads know that SEO coding plays a role in search engine optimization.
Charlottesville SEO Web Development delivers standards-compliant, top quality front-end web development solutions as well as back-end (database driven) website programming.
What Is Front-End Web Development?
Front-end web development (client-side coding) is programming that instructs the visitor's browser or alternative device how to display, read or present the web content. All web sites require front-end coding (programming) and many small sites are built using only front-end coding. Top quality front-end web programming includes pure CSS layouts, semantic XHTML, ethical search engine optimization, unobtrusive JavaScript, "Best Practices", and strict adherence to current web standards provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Charlottesville SEO Web Development delivers error-free (valid) Strict XHTML that meets the most rigorous W3C Guidelines. We guarantee this and show you how to verify it.
What Is Back-End Web Development?
Back-end programming is required when website content is stored in a database. Back-end code instructs the database what information to save and what to display when a website visitor requests a data-base driven web page. One example of sites that require a database and back-end programming are e-commerce websites. Such sites rely on a database to store and retrieve product details and pricing. Charlottesville SEO Web Development builds dynamic web sites, database-driven sites and custom database applications with PHP and MySQL.
E-commerce: Paypal & Open Source Shopping Carts
Charlottesville SEO Web Development can set up an e-commerce web site for you that combines the convenience and affordability of an open-source, database-driven shopping cart with custom coding for search engine optimization. We recommend Zen Cart, but can help you integrate any open-source or custom shopping cart solution. We also provide Paypal integration for small sites that need only a few "Buy Now", "Add To Cart" or "Donate" buttons.
Custom E-commerce Solutions
Looking for a custom built e-commerce web site? We design and build functional, easy-to-navigate websites that rank high in the search engines, driving organic search engine traffic to your e-commerce business.
What About Blogs & Content Management?
Blogs and other Content Management Systems require extensive back-end programming. To develop such software from scratch would be a labor intensive and expensive process. Fortunately, there are many excellent, free software products available. These are known as "Open Source" applications. Charlottesville SEO Web Development can help you install and configure blogging software or other Content Management Software. We can install a free or custom theme to make your blog or content-managed website look just the way you want it to.
Contact Us In Central Virginia / Northern Virginia
For Paypal buttons integration, e-commerce shopping cart set up and training, or custom front and back end web applications and development, please call Nick Stone.
434-284-2840 Charlottesville, VA (Central Virginia)
571-249-1452 Alexandria, VA (Northern Virginia)
