Web
Functional Websites
At Peter Mac we have the skills to make your website do more than just look pretty. These are just some of the useful tasks that the Internet can be put to.
- Present your product catalogue online
- Sales representatives access customer data while in the field
- Answer online customers quotation requests
- Consultants completing timesheets online
So before you hand over your hard earned cash to a web design company, ask them if they can come up with the goods to turn an expense into an investment.
Our web development approach
At Peter Mac And Associates, we consult for free with our clients for as long as it takes for us to get a clear picture of their requirements. We then present a series of visual options for client selection. Based on this selection and a process of refining the look and feel of a web-site, our developers are able to start creating a functional web-site.
Our Tools
We like to use cost-effective tools that empower our clients. To this end, we use open-source content management systems like PHP-Nuke and DotNetNuke. These are free content management systems that allow you to make changes to your website content with relative ease. This frees you from calling support every time you want to add news articles and special offers to your site. This site for example was developed using Wordpress
Search Engine Optimisation
Commonly known as SEO. This is the black art of ensuring your webiste is listed as high as possible in the results returned by various Search Engines. Click here for wikipedia’s definition of SEO
Why is SEO a ‘black art’?
Because it’s far from a science. There are so many factors that influence your site’s search engine ranking that it’s virtually impossible to guarantee a steady and high ranking position. A combination of relevant, fresh and interesting content with appropriate headings will help you achieve good rankings. After that, technical details relating to how crawlable and well linked your site is start to have an impact.
At Peter Mac, we can put in place the key elements that will ensure your website is search engine friendly and endeavour to get as high a ranking as possible, but you must understand there are no guarantees in this process.
Building A Website - Frequently Asked Questions
Q. How much will my website cost me?
A. Depends on the size and complexity of the site.
Q. If all i want is a few web pages that tell the world about my buiness.
A. We can design a look and feel, get a few web pages up and host them for about $4,000
Q. But what about getting the site listed in search engines? Will people find me using google?
A. We’ll put in the smarts behind your pages to give them a good chance of being listed. It’s called SEO. The rest is up to you.
Q. What do you mean “the rest is up to me”?
A. Once you have a working web-site, keeping its’ content fresh and relevant and ensuring it gets high search engine rankings is an on-going job.
Q. Can I update my site with new content or do I have to pay you for any changes?
A. We will use a CMS to build your site, you can add new articles and pages if you need. You can call us if it all gets too much like hard work.
Q. How long will this take?
A. For a simple website where you can provide the textual content, it can take 2-3 weeks. For an online store with order forms and product cataloges considerably longer.
