E-Commerce / OSCommerce

To develop our E-Commerce websites, we often make use of the highly reliable 'OSCommerce' framework, which has been developed over the past few years by a huge online community of experienced PHP programmers, among which ourselves. It is now being used by thousands and thousands of E-Commerce websites around the world. It features an incredibly rich set of online shopping cart features and a functionality that allows customers to enjoy their shopping experience at your online store, and you, the store owner, to run and maintain you online store with minimum effort through the user-friendly Administration Panel.
 

OSCommerce is freely available and you could set it up yourself. So what would you need us for?

1. We are Internet designers. It is important for your website to stand out in the fast growing crowd of E-Commerce websites and a professional, eye-catching design will do just that. We have developed highly successful E-Commerce websites, time and again impressing with our original designs.

2. If you don't know the PHP programming language behind OSCommerce, you will be unable to fix any problems that might arise or make any alterations to the standard shop set-up. With a huge program like a fully functional, multi-featured E-Commerce shop, problems are bound to rear their ugly heads. In addition, most shop-owners have unique demands regarding the functionality of their shop. Some might prefer to work with an Excel spreadsheet rather than adding products to the shop one by one through the web-based interface. Others might want a banner exchange program, or different payment methods than the ones available by default. There are many such 'modules' freely available within the OSCommerce set-up, see OSCommerce Modules. But installing each of them, making them work without conflicting with each other, is where we come in. A flawless and fully customised shop needs a team of programmers behind it.

3. The search engine placement of OSCommerce websites can be quite abominable and if no further work is done in terms of SEO (search engine optimisation) your shop will rapidly slide down the search engine rankings. It is possible to program a shop in such a way that all pages have a unique title, a unique set of 'Keywords' and a unique 'Description', all of which will be registered by the Search Engines. It is important that product descriptions are accurate and as extensive and descriptive as possible. We will advise you on these issues and together we'll make your virtual shop a very crowded shop indeed, with hundreds of visitors each day.

4. If you look at the live showcases on OSCommerce.com, you'll see that many of them look exactly like the OSCommerce demo, the only difference being the shop's logo in the 'header' and sometimes a change to the overall colour scheme. The majority of these shops were set up by the owners themselves without the assistance of Internet specialits like us. They are often not Optimised for Search Engines (SEO) and have there been forgotten about, by the Search Engines, therefore by the general public (the potential visitors), and ultimately by the owners of the website. We would not only create an advanced and beautiful design for your shop, we could apply many different improvements and install many different modules to customise your shop according to your particular needs.

Using OSCommerce software, we have so far created (which means we designed, developed, and have fully maintained since creation): OxDev.com, Tiger-Lily.com, SPHSupplies.co.uk, and CotswoldKids.co.uk, all 4 of which are doing exceptionally well. Recently we added to the growing family of TQID E-Commerce website MandMWorms.com and EquiCheck.co.uk. We are also currently developing a full E-Commerce facility for our hugely succesful musical instruments E-Bay-website ImpactMusic.co.uk. These websites are being 'supervised' continuously by our team of Top Quality Internet Developers: updated when necessary and fully maintainted around the clock.

In short: let TQID develop your E-Commerce shop and you will get, apart from your own unique design, full support and, when necessary, training in the use of your E-Commerce facilities. We can help you 'populate' your shop very rapidly and are always ready to answer your e-mails or calls.