| Web Applications & E-commerce |
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| What's the difference between a website and a web application?
To us at Fairfax Computing there is a big difference, and that is
what marks us out from the crowd. |
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| We get many requests from potential clients for a "website",
to help promote their products or services. However, they then express
the wish to allow visitors to that site to be able to register an
interest, have the ability to purchase online, to be able to search
the product catalogue - and the list goes on. |
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| Then that same client will also express a wish to be able to
keep the product catalogue up to date, easily, and without the help
and cost of a web designer, and to be able to target goods and offers
effectively. |
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| It is at that point that we look at web application solutions
rather than a classic "website". To build all of the functionality
into the "site" we develop a back end database that contains
the data that populates the site pages. This allows for all the
great features that shoppers are used to - search engines, shopping
baskets, registration forms, product categorisation etc. |
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| This not only means that the visitors get what they want and need,
the client also gets the tools to be able to add new products to
the catalogue, and to be able to promote the products in their chosen
way. Ask the web design company that you are speaking to how easy
it is for you to be able to update your own website in the future? |
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| Fairfax Computing first made it's entrance into the web arena
because of our long experience in developing land locked databases
and applications. An existing client wished to publish some of that
data to the Internet - the rest as they say "is history"!! |
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| We are not going to limit you to the boundaries that might be
set by using a "shop in a box" solution. We specialise
in being able to build completely bespoke solutions - because we
are developers who know how to code the solution by hand. |
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| So - it is an important distinction, one which we believe is not
made enough by other web design companies when talking to their
clients. The proportion of sites that are built this way is increasing,
as managing the huge amounts of information available gets harder. |
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| Visit the following sites to view examples of our work : |
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