Advantage Internet

Advantage Internet is a small company that believes in giving an efficient, reliable and personal service. From an initial consultation (free within the local area, or we can work things out by phone and e-mail) a plan can be drafted out for a website that fulfills all your expectations.

Throughout the entire website design process, you will be speaking to one person who is available to answer your questions, explain the process, and help you through the maze of computer and Internet jargon. If you have existing stationary, promotional literature, etc I can design a website with the same 'look', to further establish your business identity. Alternatively, I will come up with an eye catching, unique design for your site.

My set up fee covers a domain name, design of the site, and hosting for the first year. A quote will be agreed up front, and nothing is payable until your site is online and you are 100% satisfied with it.

Price is dependant upon many factors, and sites will have to be quoted for individually, but as a guide I can get your business online with a single, professional web page, with its own unique domain name, for £99. Starting at around £300 you can upgrade to four or five page site, with larger, more complex sites from £500 upwards. Please don't hesitate to contact me for a free, no obligation quote.

Advantage Internet can offer you a great online shopping solution for your business at an affordable price. The e-commerce software package that I use is dependable and secure. It provides full shopping cart facilities and can offer many payment options including full credit card processing, and integration of numerous trusted payment gateways such as PayPal, Authorize.net and 2CheckOut.

Other features of our e-commerce packages include: all orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval, customers can maintain their accounts, view their order history and order status, address book for multiple shipping and billing addresses, fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features, secure transactions with SSL encryption, breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation.

Our starter e-commerce shopping sites are in the region of £600 - £800. If you are unsure of your requirements or whether an e-commerce site is for you I would be happy to advise.

Is your website in need of a makeover? Concerned that it is not performing to its full potential? Maybe it doesn't work properly or is simply horrendous to look at. Possibly you've lost touch with the original design company, or they are no longer trading?

Advantage Internet can offer you an honest, unbiased opinion of the design and usability of your site, make recommendations on how to improve things, and conduct redesign work at affordable prices. For a free consultation please contact me.

It doesn't matter how good a website looks if no one can find it. Good search engine ranking can make an enormous difference to your site's performance.

Although Advantage Internet is not a dedicated SEO consultancy, I have a in-depth understanding of making search engine friendly websites and will ensure that this is done as an integral part of the design of the site, not 'bolted on' as an afterthought.

Working to ethical and trusted organic SEO methods I aim to design sites that perform well in all major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN. I can also supply you with access to server stats with which to monitor your site's performance.

The complexities of search engine ranking and marketing can require a budget that often puts it out of reach for many smaller businesses. Advantage Internet's objective is to provide cost effective, affordable search engine ranking services, to allow small to medium-sized companies to benefit from top place listings in major search engines.

Do you require a website that you can update yourself? A Content Management System (CMS) website from Advantage Internet will allow you to edit certain areas of your web pages at will, letting you control your own website without the need for any specialist computer skills.

As a rule of thumb, if you think you will need to update your website more than once every couple of months then a CMS system could be for you. It gives you the freedom to maintain your own website at your own convenience, quickly and easily. This is acheived by logging into a password protected web page within your site. From there you can add, edit or delete content from certain areas of your site.

CMS enabled sites from Advantage Internet start in the region of £450. If you are unsure of your requirements or whether this type of site is for you I would be happy to advise.

If you'd like a domain name, your very own place on the net, Advantage Internet can give you advice, search for available names and then register your chosen domain for you.

What is a domain name? Put simply a domain name is the address that people use to find you or your company online; it's what you type in the browser's address bar to go to a specific website. For example, my domain name is www.advantageinternet.net

You may not require a website - it is common to register domain names in order to obtain an email address, a webmail account or forward email to another address. I can set up your company email address(es) so customers and clients can contact you easily, and even give you instructions on how to configure your email program.

You may also wish to register the same domain name with multiple domain extensions in order to use website redirection to increase the likelihood of a visitor finding the way to your site, and also as a means of protecting your brand. A domain extension describes the ending of a domain name, and these can also be referred to as the tld (top level domain), suffix, or domain root. .com, .org, .co.uk & .net are all examples of a domain extension, and there are many others to choose from.