As mentioned elsewhere, developing a website is just the first step. Maintaining it and keeping it updated and fresh is critical to your success. While you can pay someone else to do it for you, you can also make a strategic investment in having customized tools developed that will help you do some of the basic work yourself. These are called content management systems.

A website designed using a content management system (CMS) gives the end-user the ability to update some of the content themselves, using a web browser. Content may include, but is not limited to, logos, banners, product/service images, product/service descriptions, audio/video clips, forms, prices, testimonials, calendars, upcoming events, news releases, newsletters, mailing lists, blogs, polls, and staff/team lists.

Content management systems are 'modular' by design, which allow them to be incredibly flexible and easy to maintain or enhance in the future.

To manage the content on your web site, Blazing Images will custom-build a secondary site, an administration or admin site (also known as a backroom), for you or someone in your business or organization to administer. You will be able to access this site with a user name and password, which you can select.

If you determine that you don’t have any content to manage or don’t want to manage any of the content, at the very least, we encourage you to let us build a contact form for you, which we can customize to your business or organization’s specific information needs. A contact form allows people behind firewalls and people who rely on web-based e-mail to contact you easily. Unfortunately, just posting your e-mail address is not convenient nor useful for anyone using Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, or Hotmail / Live / MSN, and other web-based e-mail accounts.

Online sales of everything from clothing to cars is booming. There are millions and millions of products available to buy on the web. This is great news if you have a product to offer. But most people don’t go online to find one specific product, especially if they aren’t already familiar with you. They do a lot of searching and research. So if you’ve got great stuff to sell, but you only gear your site for basic transactions and do nothing else, you won't be very successful.

E-commerce (electronic commerce) refers to the buying and selling of goods and services electronically or over the Internet.

Creativity, ease of use, professionalism, and clarity of your website all influence a customer's purchasing decision. An effective design will draw your customers in and inspire them to purchase your product or service.

If your business or organization would like to operate an on-line or Internet store, Blazing Images can custom-build a secure store for you. We will build the store so that you or someone in your organization can manage the content of your on-line store.

  Request a copy of our Online Store Planning Worksheet.