UK web site design, database development, hosting and internet
marketing consultant services
What we can do
Simply stated, our job is to take your business plan and
help you create an Internet strategy to accomplish your goals.
We take the time to understand your goals and your vision,
and we combine it with our experience in web site design,
web site development, and web site marketing to produce a
complete package that works for you.
Merchant Internet believes that you are unique, with your
own needs and requirements, which is why we design and built
and market websites in a way that is custom designed to meet
your needs. We do not make cookie-cutter websites where one-size-fits-all.
These strategies seldom meet the needs and expectations of
either you or your customers.
Web Site Design and Planning (Information Architecture)
By clearly understanding your goals, we will design a web
site that has the organization and design necessary to accomplish
your goals. We will help you to organise and and present your
message. We will identify the best strategies for your visitors
get the most out of your site. To do this, we often break
the web site design plan into Phase I and Phase II strategies.
This allows you to implement and add new components as your
business plan and your readiness allows. This careful planning
improves the effectiveness of your site while minimising any
rework that might otherwise be required as new enhancements
are added in the future. This careful planning process, called
information architecture, pays off in more effective and longer
lasting websites.
Web Site Development
Once your web site design is clear, we will begin building
the site. This begins with custom graphic design. When the
web site design is approved, we begin adding the other functionality
that will make your web site stand apart from the rest. Whether
it involves e-commerce solutions, custom database applications,
integration of third party applications, interfacing with
your enterprise systems, or making your web site accessible,
we begin a clear and planned process to make your solution
a reality.
Our web site designers have distinguished themselves for
their high-quality graphics, their e-commerce solutions, custom
database applications, animation graphics, and much, much
more. They have won many awards for their quality and functionality.
Please check out our portfolio of award-winning web sites.
Web Site Marketing
Successful marketing of your web site is critical to your
success. You will find our specialised Internet marketing
skills and services will bring an ever-increasing number of
new visitors to your web site. We know how to promote your
business to the local, UK and the worldwide Internet community.
We also have a strong network of partners who bring additional
resources to the web site marketing effort.
Intranet Design and Development
A growing number of our customers have asked us to develop
custom intranets for their own internal systems. One of the
advantages of doing this it to make available to your employees
information systems, policy and procedures, and other tools
so they become more efficient.
Web Hosting Services
We offer high-quality website hosting services. We use top
brand hardware and redundancy to ensure high speed and reliability
for your web site. We offer services for individual website
hosting, as well as web server co-location, and managed hosting
services.
Other Services
To help assure your success, we offer a number of additional
solutions, which include dedicated access, and multi-media
web site design. We offer these extra services because we
know your web site is often a "mission-critical"
aspect of your business. We know when there are problems or
changes to be made, you want to make one call and get it fixed.
You are an expert at what you do; and you want us to keep
the technology of the web as invisible as possible so you
are free to do what you do best.
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