A website is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It can be used for the following purposes.

Website serves as an online business card

This could be a single page that tells people what you do and how to contact you. Given that the initial design is done it would seem an under-use of time not to fill it out with more detail such as at least making it an online brochure.

Website serves as an online brochure

You might want simply to have an online brochure to which you direct enquirers through advertising, following email contact or through telephone enquiries. The huge advantage of a web-brochure is that it doesn't cost anything to print and can be updated and changed with no limit and at little or no cost.

It can be designed so that it can be printed by the potential customer in such a way that the usual web page surrounds are left off and the customer's print copy contains just the important information and relevant images.

You might call this an ‘entry-level’ type of website with which you will start. Later, you might want to expand it to do other things.

A website helps in obtaining information, and encouraging contact

A website can ask potential customers to provide initial information that would help you provide them with a particular product or service.

A form could be presented which asks potential customers to provide information in a standard format which would allow you to contact them back with an estimate, for example, that is geared to their requirements. You could ask for all those basic bits of information that seem to take forever on the telephone. Allowing you to be clearer about their (Your potential client) needs and clearer with them about how you can help them.

Selling products and services online

Part of your website could be focused on selling your products and services online. Many people fall for the 'off-the-shelf' systems for e-commerce only to discover later that they have over-paid for an over-complex system that they struggle to maintain. One disillusioned client told us they would have been better off paying all the overheads for a high street shop!

What you need to think about

Ask your self - what might a website do that would improve some aspect of your work - whether you are a business, a service, a voluntary organization or a private individual.

Once you've done that, you can move on to the next stage - deciding what you actually do want a website to do for you.

What can IVO Inc Offer?

IVO Inc offers a wide variety of programming and website design services.

• Custom website design & layout
• HTML programming
• Online forms & e-mail communications
• JavaScript, Java, Perl, ASP, .NET and VB programming
• Video, audio and flash animation
• Content management tools
• Search engine optimization
• E-Commerce
• Web hosting

What are the steps of creating a website?

Contact us and we will offer you a free one hour consultation and guide you through the steps of starting your online presence and website.

Call now (630) 310-8629.