E-commerce and Web Hosting Solutions

The Internet has become a major venue for buying goods and services. More and more people and businesses are using the convenience of e-commerce enabled sites to shop online. The security of online transactions has been proven as well, with over 40% of net-connected people now regularly shopping online. If your business sells any type of product or service, or books reservations and appointments as part of everyday business, an e-commerce enabled website is sure to widen your opportunities, in addition to improving the flexibility of your business and reducing on-going busywork.

Cape.Com provides a wide assortment of web site development tools and services. They're made available in a variety of ways to allow you to pick the particular mix of services that best serve your needs.

In many ways, we're using a tiered approach.

At one end of the spectrum, we can provide complete development and maintenance services for your site. Our on-site, full time staff of web designers, graphic artists, and programmers can provide you with a complete soup to nuts solution.

At the other end, you may find it appropriate to co-locate a server at our shop or run your servers at your facility with a permanent leased-line connection to the Net. In this case, your staff or consultants would develop and maintain the site.

There's a lot of room in between so lets walk through some scenarios

I can do pretty much all of this myself.

Co-locate a server at Cape.Com or buy a dedicated leased-line solution.

There are a number of good reasons to take this approach:

• you already have a good technical staff who's been through the process already.
• your web site is tightly integrated with your internal operations and you don't want to 'out source' those operations.
• You're using a proprietary, non-standards based solution.

There are a number of bad reasons to take this approach:

• It requires significant infrastructure and maintenance.
  • What happens when your web server crashes?
  • What's your data backup policy?
  • Where are the single point failures that will bring your site down?
• It may become prohibitively expensive to leverage future technology enhancements.
• You're doing it because you're using a proprietary, non-standards based solution.

I'm a web developer and programmer and just want a stable hosting platform.

Cape.Com provides you with the web server platform and access to an array of development tools for your web site. Tools like Perl for CGI scripting, embedded scripting with PHP3, and database management with MySQL are available. Cape.Com can back you up, when needed, with technical consulting on specific problems.

I'm a web developer but don't want to put together, figure out, and maintain all those geeky scripting, CGI, and shopping cart tools. I do, though, want to develop the HTML code and maintain the site.

Cape.Com has developed and uses a number of e-commerce tools. These tools, CapeShop, SqerL, and Content King, can be used by both you as a developer, and by your clients to maintain the site. Using these tools requires some initial setup and configuration by Cape.Com. It also requires that you, as a developer, build an expertise with these tools. Maintaining the site, though, doesn't require any scripting or programming effort. All ongoing enhancements to these tools are made available to the broader Cape.Com web development community.

I'm a business person. I need help developing the site and putting dynamic e-commerce tools in place. My e-commerce site will be an integral part of my business. The site content changes frequently and I'd like to be able to make those changes. I'd rather not, however, deal with all of this techno-babble. I know how to use a web browser and a word processor, shouldn't that be enough?

Yes, it should be enough. You're busy enough dealing with the day to day challenges of running your business. Cape.Com can create your site and provide the tools so you or your staff can make the daily operational changes to your site with a simple cut-and-paste operation on your computer.

I need to get into e-commerce. It's an important emerging opportunity but I don't have the staff or the expertise to run it.

Cape.Com can provide you with a 'soup-to-nuts' solution. We'll build the site, maintain it, promote it, and provide you with statistics and feedback on how it's working.

If you want e-commerce/shopping cart capabilities, please refer to our Request for Proposal which will relay your website needs to our web development staff.

Or simply email webdev@cape.com to get your e-commerce site in the works!

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