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E-Commerce & Database Development Services
So what's the next step after designing a Web site to market your products and services? Using Web development services to make your site a living, breathing entity! By creating dynamic pages for your site, you can make your site a functional resource that could save you a lot of headaches and frustration in the long run. Additionally, you can create a self-service site that will allow your customers to dive into your resources and information at their own pace and generate customized results geared towards their own goals. This leads to customer satisfaction, which in turn leads to customer loyalty and return visits.

In addition to creating an attractive and effective presence for your business, we can also take your site to the next level with web development services that will make your site a tool rather than an online brochure. There are several ways to develop this interactivity:

E-Commerce
True e-commerce comes in many forms. We can assist you in determining which is right for your business. We can help you weave through the maze of e-commerce options and the fees associated with merchant accounts, virtual storefronts, shopping carts and the like. Do you have (or need) and electronic database of your inventory? If so, would you want to tie in an ordering system to that database and set-up a completely automated purchasing system? Alternately, do you just want to sell a single item or a handful of items? You might not need (or be able to afford) full automation. There are several options and levels of e-commerce available. Allow us to work with you to determine the most affordable and effective plan for launching online purchasing for your site. And the best thing about e-commerce is that your system can expand or contract to suit your business needs.

Database Connectivity
Perhaps you want to collect user data and later generate reports from that information. For example, maybe you want to encourage people to sign up for your offline newsletter. We can create an interface on your site that would allow you to collect user information and later sort it and generate and type of report using that information that you desire (i.e. mailing labels for your newsletter). Or perhaps you'd like to have a searchable index of services that would allow you to store and manipulate pieces of data in a database and allow the user to control the display of the information as it pertains to his/her needs.

Internal Site Administration
Do you have content on your site that changes on a frequent basis? Or maybe you have several content managers that contribute to areas of your site. We can create a browser-based console that will allow you to easily change events listings or news releases without having any knowledge of HTML or web design. In addition to allowing you to make changes without relying on Summit (or any designer) a system such as this would save money over time since your site's changes could be conducted by anyone who learns how to use the simple console.

Summit uses the latest interactive tools to perform the services above. We have extensive expertise in tools such as ASP, PHP, SQL and MySQL to assist you in setting up your own web-connected databases and tools. We can also help you convert existing client-server or desktop database applications (including Oracle, FoxPro and Access) into web-enabled global solutions for your employers, your vendors and your customers.