Today we are discussing using your website as a sales platform for products. By now, almost everyone has used an online store, an ecommerce store, at one point or another. Buying products online is a great thing. Because of the increased competition, you can normally find what you are looking for online for less money than you can locally. Also, many times, you are not required to pay sales tax on purchases made online. This is huge when buying big ticket items like the Nikon D700 camera I bought last week. For all of these reasons and more, customers are shopping online more and more. You need to get in on that market.

Using your website to sell your products doesn’t have to be a daunting experience. As a matter of fact, if you are working with the right company, like Nealon Web Designs, who is experienced in developing ecommerce websites, the process can be quite painless. Over the years, we have built many ecommerce websites. We know what retailers are looking for in their website. What we did is take that knowledge and build an ecommerce solution that can be fitted for any business, selling any product.

The most important part of our system is the Insert Inventory Form. This is the form that allows you to add products to your website. Every business is different so we have made this form very flexible. You can put any information you want online, and we configure the form to support what you need. If you look below, you can see an example of the form that is used for a website for White Water Adventurers. They use their site to sell t-shirts and other souvenirs from Ohiopyle.

As we stated before, this form can be modified to include anything you need for your business and your products. It saves all of your products to the database that runs your website. This allows your website to look through the database and pull from it products that people happen to be looking for. If you are interested in how it all works, just Contact us through our website.

Why Sell Online

When you sell your products online, you are exposing those products to a never ending stream of people. When you are selling in your store, you are limited to the number of people who happened to walk through your door. Online, the world is your customer base. You can sell to everyone in the United States, or world-wide, if that is your goal.

The other benefit to selling online is that your website never closes. While your store may only be able to sell from 9-5, your website can sell 24/7.

If you are interested in selling your products on a website, contact the ecommerce specialists at Nealon Web Designs.

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So, over the next two weeks, we are going to be posting reasons and examples about why your business needs a website. Our goal is to give those individuals the extra comfort they need, so they can finally get off of that fence. After all, fences weren’t meant to be sit upon!

Reason Number One: Promote Your Business

The year is now 2009. When people go looking for a service, for a product, more times than not, they are going to look online. The first stop for these individuals is almost always a search engine such as Google or Yahoo. They type in what they are looking for, let us pretend they are looking for a Construction Company to build an addition to their house. So, they type in, ‘Construction Companies in Pittsburgh’. They find you, right? They don’t? Who are they finding, your competition? That cannot be a good thing. Having a web site gives you the opportunity to put your business right in front of individuals looking for what you have to offer. In order for your business to thrive, you need customers. Without an online presence, you are being passed up by hundreds of potential customers looking for what it is you offer. They just happen to find your competitors first, not a good thing.

Why Should Customers Choose You?

Having a website also gives you the ability to show those potential customers why they need to choose you, why they need to spend their money with you. Let’s use the construction company example again. When someone comes to your website, needing construction work, what could you place on your site that speaks to them and says, “I need this company to build my addition!” ?

First off, a website gives you the ability to tell your customer the story of your company. You can list your credentials and expertise. You can show potential customers the testimonials of your past customers who were extremely happy with choosing your company. All of these things start to break down the barriers that stand between that customer looking at your site and that customer contacting you, which is our goal. In addition to written word, you can also place pictures of your work on your site. Showing a potential customer previous work is a huge benefit, a benefit you cannot get any other way, without spending tens of thousands for television productions.

Promote Your Services and Products

Every business is selling something. Be it a product or a service, your goal is to inspire a transaction that puts money in your bank account. Your website should promote all of the services or products your business offers. Back to our construction example. Do you pave driveways, maybe you only do roofing? To properly promote all of your services and/or products, a website is the only solution that makes sense. A website allows you to showcase that product or service, display pictures of it, give examples and success stories of how your product or service helped your previous customers, and much more.

Promote, Promote, Promote, Promote

The bottom line is that having a website will allow you to promote your business in ways not possible with aging methods such as a Yellow Page Ad or direct mailing campaigns. Every business needs a website. Eventually, like it or not, in order to thrive, your WILL NEED a website. So, are you going to do it now, or wait until your competition dominates the Internet?

Questions?

We understand that some individuals may still be up in the air about whether or not a website can help their business. Please feel free to contact us. We will answer your questions and take the time to explain everything to you. When the time is right, hopefully you will choose Nealon Web Designs for your website.

Please visit our website for more information about how a website can help your business.

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To help meet this demand, Nealon Web Designs started developing our own Content Management System (CMS) that would allow our clients to log in to their websites and make changes themselves. This was a huge hit with not only our current clients, but also allowed us to obtain new clients that found the idea of editing their own website very intriguing. Now, don’t get me wrong, even two years ago a CMS wasn’t anything new. They have been around for some time. However, we were the first web design company in the Pittsburgh area to offer it as a service.

Over the past two years, thanks to feedback from our clients, we have made many improvements to our Content Management System. Some of these changes include:

• A control panel where you can see all of the changes you have made to your site..ever
• The ability to revert back to previous versions of your web site
• The ability for you to add users to your CMS, then tell the system which pages they are allowed to edit.
• …and much more!

Take Back Control Of Your Website!

Are you tired of dealing with your web design company every time you need to make a change to your site? Please consider allowing Nealon Web Designs to integrate our Content Management System into your website. We can integrate it into new websites or existing websites. We would love to talk with you and discuss how we may be able to help you. Just give us a call at 1-866-606-3977 or fill out our contact form for more information.

We have worked really hard, for quite some time, to make this Content Management System one of the best out there. For more information about our Content Management System, you can view our webpage on Content Management Systems.

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Nealon Web Designs has been designing websites for Pittsburgh area businesses for over four years. Our talented team of designers, programmers and search engine specialists have worked hard since day one to ensure that our company stays the most complete web design in our area.

We specialize in designing websites for businesses of all sizes. We have designed websites for one employee sole proprietorships and large companies with over 200 employees. In addition to informative websites, we also design e-commerce website for businesses and companies wishing to sell their products online.

If you are a business around Pittsburgh, please consider Nealon Web Designs. Visit our website at Nealon Web Designs to learn more. You may also call us at 1-866-606-3977.

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Once we started down the road of redesign, we started working on many more projects for our company. Instead of redesigning our website, we ended up redesigning our entire company as well. We added many new features including,

• Our own Content Management System. Now every one of our clients can edit their web site by logging into it. No more calling you web design company and paying large fees just for changing your web site.
• Our Support Center. We are always there for you 24/7. Now, you can log into your support center and find answers to many of the most common questions we are asked. We even have built a form into the support center, just in case you need some addition help.
• Our Business Center. Not everyone is internet savvy, so we want to help. We will give you hints and tips on running your business on the internet. We’ll post articles, how-to’s and much more. Most of that, we’ll do right here on this blog, so make sure you subscribe!

The bottom line is that we have emerged from this website redesign a much stronger and more complete company!

If your company wants to work with one of the Pittsburgh area’s best web design company, please contact Nealon Web Designs today. You can call use at 1-866-606-3977 or fill out our contact form.

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These offers cannot be combined with each other. When you sign your agreement with Nealon Web Designs please indicate which offer you are selecting.

SIX MONTHS FREE WEB HOSTING

When we design a website for you valued at $999 or higher you will receive 6 months free of web hosting. This is a savings of $150.

1000 FREE CUSTOM BUSINESS CARDS

When we design a website for your company valued at $999 or higher you will receive 1000 custom designed business cards. This is a great offer for a new business that is just starting out. We will design your cards, print them and deliver them. This offer is valued at $125.

25% OFF OF WEB DESIGN SERVICES

If the offers above don’t get you excited, maybe giving you 25% off will. This offer is valid for all websites valued a $2999 or above. For websites valued at $2998 and below we will offer discounts of 10%.

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CSS Style Sheets

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. When used in conjunction with HTML/XHTML these style sheets make styling a website’s elements and updating them very fast and effective. The CSS used to style a site is contained in a file in your site’s directory. This file is called a style sheet. The pages in your website can either link to or import. When a web page links to that external file it inherits all the attributes of that CSS style sheet. In each site, there is usually a very limited number of style sheets, one or two, that all the webpages link to. This means that changing the styling of elements is easy. To change the styling of an element, only a change to the style sheet is made, every webpage that links to it inherits those changes. This saves time because you don’t have to go through all your pages and update them. Simply update the CSS style sheet and every page gets the change!

What do you mean, “Style an Element”?

When we build a website, we style almost every element in the website. Paragraphs, headers, links, page division (divs) and sometimes even images all get styled. To style something is to use CSS to tell the web browser you are using, how to display each element. Lets use paragraphs as an example. A paragraph can be styled in many ways. We can tell the browser which font to display paragraphs with, what size the font should be, what color paragraphs should be and so on. To tell your webpage how to display each element is to style that element.

We love CSS!

When choosing a web designer, make sure they use CSS as much as possible. There are instances (such as tabular data) where CSS might not be the best, but 98% of the time you want CSS being used. CSS saves time which saves you money. 

All of the sites we design take advantage of CSS. Allow us to show you how our CSS based websites are superior to many of our competitors’ designs. Contact Nealon Web Designs today by filling out our contact form or calling us Toll Free at 866-606-3977.

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Our hosting package is one of the best, if not the best around. Our servers are located in two separate locations to prevent anything happening to your website. If one goes down, the other automatically picks right up. This allows us to guarantee you 99.9% uptime for your website.

E-mail is also included in your hosting account. You can have up to 20 e-mail accounts with your hosting plan. Additional e-mail accounts are only $3 a month.

The bottom line is that Nealon Web Designs can offer your company a secure and affordable way to keep your site online. Our prices are very competitive with nation wide companies but our customer service is very personal.

Switch your web hosting service to Nealon Web Designs today to start saving money! Call us today at 866-606-3977 or fill out our contact form for more information.

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