Nextagelab has been recently commissioned to design and develop a new e-commerce website for salonlinesdirect.com. As the client was very keen on accepting payments via Netbanx as their card processing merchant, we were also asked to code a payment module for handling this merchant. We have successfully programmed the module for Oscommerce and the website should be up & running very soon. Keep an eye our ever growing web design portfolio.

So what is a blog? In simple words, it is nothing but a log which is stored on the web. Originally termed as weblog, the word blog came into existence quite recently. Having a blog on your website is always beneficial because search engines consider it as a free resource of information, and a website that is full of information has always got the chance to make it to the top search result pages.

A person who maintains and writes in a blog is called as a blogger.Many times, people confuse a blog for an Internet forum or a board. There is ahuge difference between a form and a blog. A forum is a place where people can register and interact with other people, share their experience & knowledge, request for help etc. However, a blog is like a dairy where a person or a company can write facts.

These days, there is no need for developing the whole software for a blog as there are many off the shelf softwares available, most of which are free. However, the tricky part is the blog design integration. Unless one has specialist knowledge about web programming languages, it can be a mammoth job to make the blog look like a part of the original website. This is where a web design company like us can help. We have years of experience and our skilled employees all hold internation certificates like Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Certified Solution Developers & Microsoft Certified Professional.

You can have a blog for a variety of website and if you wish to have free traffic coming through google, we highly recommend having a blog designed.

E.g.

A cook can have a blog for his recipes & cooking secrets
A music band can have one for providing information about their new sound tracks and any live events they will be doing
An atrist can show off his paintings and art in a blog and so on...

So, what are you waiting for? Call us today start blogging.

We are quite often asked whether we provide a visitor tracking software and a website analytics software for analysing the performance of a website. Whislt it is surely possible to develop a custom built website with a tracking system, it is now not so sensible to do so.

Google as opened it's doors to the ordinary world and is letting us use their highly advanced software in order to track the trends of visitors on our websites. Google of course has it's own ulterior motive of being able to collect more and more data for it's search engine. However, it is worth considering this software because it is totally free apart from the administrative cost that may be involved in setting up the system on your website.

The analytics provide you with in depth information for example:

1. Daily visitors, unique & repeat
2. Daily page views
3. Top landing pages
4. Top exit pages
5. Bounce rate (where the visitor left the website after viewing only one page)
6. The search queries that were used in reaching your website
7. The queries that may have been paid for through CPC e.g. adwords or yahoo cpc.
8. The countries these visitors came from
9. Which links on your website were clicked when visitors browsed it
10. and tons more of information.

For the while at least, analytics are free to use. Experts truly believe that google will start charging for this service in the near future.

Nextagelab can help you implement google analytics into your website and can also provide you training on how to improve the rank of your website with very little tweaks to it. If you may be interested, please get in touch via the contact us form.

I am often asked this question when new clients first call up. And my answer always is that the cost of new website is totally in your hands. As a company based in the London, UK, we provide web design solutions from as little as £99. However as your requirements keep stacking up, so does the final price on your invoice. It's as simple as saying that you can purchase a C Class Mercedes Benz for as little as £20,000 or as much as £50,000. All you need to decide is whether you want the lovely topups like a Sat Nav, hi tech sound system, a sun roof, climate control etc.

The answer to this question is pretty much the same as buying a car. I guess I should stress that before you start hunting quotes for a new website, you must have clarity in your mind about the website you want. You are better off asking questions to yourself like the ones below:

1. How many pages do I want on my new website?
2. Whether I should get a static website or a flash website?
3. How frequently will I need to modify my website?
4. If I need to modify my website frequently, is it worth investing in a content management system website?
5. Will I be selling products on my website?
6. Do I need a bespoke website designed?
7. Do I need a logo for my website and my business?
8. Should I find a company that will also design my business stationary?

Once you have asked yourself these questions and any other possible questions you could think of, and once you have answered all of them, I would say that you have then given the answer to the actual cost of designing a new web site.

I hope this topic has helped.
Mala