Written on 15 May 2012
Off the Shelf Products
To make the process of building a website quicker, and more cost effective for our clients, we have a vast array of 'Off the Shelf' plug-ins that can be added to any website, much easier than writing an entirely bespoke item for every different website that we make.
Below is a list of some of the 'Off the Shelf' products that we can offer:
Online Store
Some companies are happy for their web presence to just display products and services which people can then contact them to buy, and this is a perfectly decent way of doing things if what you are selling, or the service that you provide doesn't allow you to sell products off the shelf.
But if you run a website that sells non-custom products then being able to sell your products online just makes sense.
We have made a whole host of different online stores for our clients, all of which have become very successful.
www.newsstand.co.uk is the most successful online store that we have created, with it now turning over in excess of £300k a year.
Other successes include www.treasureislandtoys.co.uk, aswell as a smaller 'gift shop' style online store for the Gorilla Organisation located here.
To view more about eCommerce Click Here
Social Network Integration
Social Networking has now become a very important part of raising awareness of your website/business and we have the exertise to help with that.
We are experts in the implementation of such things as Twitter feeds, post to Facebook and Blogger etc...
We are also very knowledgeable in marketing using Facebook and Google ads, and can help you set up successful advertising campaigns using these methods.
Personal Blog
A personal blog is a way of documenting any events that you may have been to, your thoughts, or anything else that you think may be of interest to anyone.
A blog is like a modern day diary, only instead of being hidden away in a drawer it is posted on the Internet for the world to see.
There are many websites on the Internet where you can write your own blog, but TheDevTeam wanted to offer its customers to opportunity to have a custom designed blog. These will make you stand out from the crowd, and get people to notice what you are writing.
The most recent blog that we created was for CARM. It is a knowledge base style blog and user forum where CARM users can find answers in a comprehensive FAQ or post questions about problems they may be having if they have not been answered previously/
To view the CARM knowledgebase click here
If you are interested in a custom blog, please contact us and we will be happy to give you more details.
To view more about blogs Click Here
Domain Names
Having the right domain name is one of the most important things when you are giving your business an online presence. The most obvious choice of web address would be 'your company name.com or .co.uk, but nowadays most people aren't lucky enough to be able to get that.
We can help you decide on a suitable domain name for your company, and then register it for you under your name.
It can also be a good idea to register multiple domain names for a business, and then we can redirect them all to the same website. This is a good way of making sure that your website gets a good ranking on Google.
An example of this use of multiple domain names pointing to the same website is www.treasureislandtoys.co.uk.
This website has different sections selling toys for girls, boys babies and a general toys section. What we have done is purchased the domain names treasureislandtoys.co.uk, treasureislandboys.co.uk, treasureislandgirls.co.uk and treasureislandbaby.co.uk, and each one of these domain names goes to the same website.
To view more about domain names Click Here
eNewsletters
eNewsletters are a great way of reaching your clients to inform them of any exciting news/special offers or anything else that may be of interest to them regarding your company.
We are specialists in dealing with the design, creation and dispatching of eNewsletters.
The 2 largest eNewsletters that we send out regularly are:
- A weekly eNewsletter for GrahamBishop.com, notifying all of his subscribers about everything that is happening in the European finance market. This email goes out to over 6,000 people every week, and is a highly successful way for GrahamBishop.com to keep in touch with a client base as large as that.
- Regular eNewsletters from INEA, the Independent Network of Estate agents, which goes out to over 7,000 estate agents around the UK.
Message Board
Message boards are a useful tool for people to be able to talk to each other at their own convenience. People can leave messages, display images and many other things on a decent message board, which is why we offer the service. Whether it be a message board for your business, personal site, blog, or any other form of website, we are sure that we have a message board suitable for you.
Every one of our message boards are customizable, so we can style it to match your company colours/website, so that it looks like it is part of the site, and not an afterthought.
Photo Album
The TheDevTeam Photo Album is an application that allows you to create and order photos on your website into easy to navigate galleries. The galleries can be named, dated and commented on, aswell as having the ability to comment on individual images.
It can easily be integrated into an existing website, that needs a gallery, aswell as be dropped into a site being designed.
If you wish to know anything else about the TheDevTeam Photo Album please feel free to contact us. We will be more than willing to help.