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Following is a listing of the web development tools at your disposal.
You don’t need them all, but when you are ready we are too. When you call us at 877-295-4095, we will work with you to navigate and define a program that is best for you, choosing from the processes and elements in our toolbox.

Strategy
Site Development
  • top-to-bottom analysis of your current approach.
  • make your website easy to use, easy to buy, easy to get help.
Business-Building
  • attracting qualified shoppers to your site.
Integration
  • integrating supply chain, fulfillment and customer service into your overall business.

Core Services
Included
  • Search Engine Optimization Ready site
  • W3c validation
  • Cross platform ready
    • IE7
    • IE6
    • Firefox
    • Google Chrome
  • Basic Content editing
  • Storefront training service: e-commerce only
Optional
  • E-mail Marketing
  • Newsletter
  • Monthly Maintenance: image and text updating
  • Product addition service: e-commerce only
  • News article Addition service: news module required
  • Basic advertising service
  • Intermediate Advertising service
  • Advanced advertising service
  • Search Engine Optimization Maintenance service
  • Search Engine Optimization Consulting and Keyword research
Topic Pages
Included
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Sitemap
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy policy
  • Shipping and return policy
Optional
  • Customer service
  • FAQ
  • News
  • Basic Photo Gallery
  • Basic Video Gallery
  • Testimonials
  • Other Custom Pages
E-commerce solution
Standard Management tools
  • Manage Products with the following information…
    • Make
    • Model
    • Brand
    • Categories
    • Brief and Detailed Descriptions
    • SKU
    • Cost
    • MSRP
    • Price
    • Sale Price
    • Images
Customizable Product Options (ex. Sizes, Colors, etc)
  • Manage Categories with sub-categories
  • Manage Brands
  • Manage Customers
    • View/Edit customer information
    • View orders
    • Create Pricing Tiers
  • Set Sales Tax rates by state and/or country
  • Shipping calculated by weight, by order total, or flat rate shipping.
Standard Client Side Tools
  • Product Search
  • Product Listing
  • Product Details
  • Account Login
  • Account Details
    • View/Edit personal information
    • View Order History
    • Wish-list function
  • Shopping Cart
  • Checkout with credit card processing
Optional E-commerce tools
  • Custom large image viewer
  • Display package upgrade bundle (Advanced tabbed and kit product layouts)
  • Display package (Created just for you product layouts)
  • Product filtering navigation
    • Sort by price
    • Sort by manufacturer
    • Sort by custom
  • Publicize wish-lists controlled by administrator- popular or relevant wish-lists added as module
  • Best sellers page
  • Featured products page
  • New Product page
  • Clearance products page
  • Sale products page
  • Other Custom product modules
Additional Modules
Included With Brochure
  • Login/ Logout
  • Hard Links to topic pages
  • Footer
Included With E-commerce
  • All Brochure Standards
  • Mini Cart
  • Dynamic Product Category Listing
Optional Brochure
  • Newsletter signup
  • Forum
  • News article Feature on Homepage
  • Advertising Module
  • Hot Forum Threads (requires Forum Module)
  • testimonials module
  • Advanced photo gallery module (requires basic)
  • Advanced Video gallery module (requires basic)
  • Custom module
Optional E-commerce
  • Wholesale mode
  • Bread Crumb
  • Hot product module
  • Rotating Product teasers module
  • Custom Product hard links
  • E-commerce Search bar Module
    • General search (included with module)
    • Search by dropdown filter (additional cost for each)
      • Manufacturer
      • Category
      • Product
      • Custom
    • Product category sub display
    • Custom modules
Content Services
Silver Package
  • Basic grammar check
  • Spelling Checking
Gold Package
  • Detailed proofreading
  • Revision of submitted materials for content flow and syntax structure
Platinum package
  • Complete content writing and development based on company’s products and or services, history and mission
Search Engine Optimization Services
Silver Package
  • Directory submissions
  • Search engine submissions
  • Basic keyword/ content integration
    • H1 etc. tags
    • 1st sentence rewrite
Gold Package
  • Detailed keyword research
  • Complex keyword/ content integration
  • Content rewrite based on research to provide appropriate keyword density
Platinum package
  • Complete custom copy writing incorporating researched keywords
  • Establish marketing techniques for the client in their market
  • Setup Google Ad-word campaign based on keyword research and established monthly client expenditure, setup Google Ad-word marketing campaign.
  • Setup of banner campaign, with banner ads on related sites and forums based on established monthly budget.
Hosting Services
Silver Package- Required for any password protected content on a site
    $19.99/month or 12 month contract paid in advance $199.99 (save $40)
  • Up to 50 e-mails
  • 5 gigabytes total storage including site
  • 1 Access Database
  • 1 MySQL Database
Gold Package
    $24.99/month or 12 month contract paid in advance $249.99 (save $50)
  • Up to 100 e-mails
  • 10 gigabytes total storage including site
  • 1 Access Database
  • 1 MySQL Database
  • 1 SQL Database
Platinum Package- required for e-commerce websites
    $99.99/month or 12 month contract paid in advance $1099.99 (save $100)
  • Up to 500 e-mails
  • 20 gigabytes total storage including site
  • Bandwidth limit (TBD)
  • 1 Access Database
  • 1 MySQL Database
  • 5 SQL Database
Website Standards
  • Overall total site width- 970px
  • 1 year hosting minimum
  • languages used on all sites
    • ASP.net
    • xhtml
    • .css
  • Image format unless otherwise specified will be
    • .jpg
    • .gif
  • Basic Search Engine Optimization only
    • Meta tags
    • Page titles
    • Descriptions
    • Basic alt tags
  • Daily server side backups of website and database
  • Website maintenance software instruction and training
  • Evaluation of existing site if available
  • Analytics and performance evaluation for existing and new site.
  • Complete mockup by expert web designers.
  • Full W3C Compliance and validation
  • Cross platform design
    • Internet explorer 6
    • Internet explorer 7
    • Firefox

Web Development Considerations

  • What does your website do for you?
    If you have decided to elevate your web business to the next level, you have probably found yourself facing the new frontier of website options, an enormous landscape which on the surface could appear to be sucking you into spending a fortune. Before you leap into any of the expensive website and hosting packages that are being offered by a plethora of operators, you first need to define what it is that your business really needs.

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  • How should you build your site?
    After you have invested days or even weeks of research and thought into determining your website content, who will you going to turn that investment over to? How will you to know if they have done a good job? Is it just an ok-looking website, or could it be more visitor-friendly? Has someone given the appropriate thought about how to improve your searchabiliy? How do you climb up in the search-engine rankings?

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  • Ready to start writing content? Not so fast.
    Once you have decided on a website provider, don’t let them work in the dark. Provide enlightenment, with information about your business, mission statements and directives. Crafting this direction is something that speed2marketing is here to help you with. It is critical work because, unlike traditional marketing the challenge is to marry creativity to searchability.

    SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Read the Full Article...
  • What should you say on your site?
    The content of your site will be a mixture of videos, articles, parts for sale, pictures of your shop and your people, downloads - you know what you want, but how do you put it together so that it doesn’t come off as a mishmash? That’s where speed2marketing comes in. We will work with you to develop a content plan that includes the right mix of words and pictures.

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  • Sure “flash” is fancy, but is it getting in your way?
    The technique of adding Flash animations to your site is tempting, because it looks so cool, but these devices can get in the way of customer navigation. Think about whether your visitors will sit still through your movie before they can begin to shop and buy. More importantly, Flash animations are not searchable, unless properly created.

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  • What is Google Analytics?
    Google Analytics uses over 80 customizable reports to track you how visitors found your site, see how they explored it, and find out how you can improve their experience. It can be used to track visitors through your site, and keep track of the performance of your marketing campaigns. With this information, you'll be able to see firsthand how keywords are working for your web business, and just think, all this is free!

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