Sometimes, it isn't just "a website" that you are after - you need specific tools to get a certain job done faster or more effectively.  Business Website Designers specialise in integrating and delivering such tools into our clients' websites.

Front End (customer facing) Website Tools

Following are just some of the tools we offer on the "front end" (customer-facing) of your website:

• eCommerce stores
  Allow your customers to shop and pay online easily and whenever they feel like it.
• Product catalogues
  Let your prospective customers see everything that you have to offer.  If they like something, they can shoot you a quick email about that product specifically, or give you a call to discuss the item in further detail.
• Social Networking
  Need to build a community, or provide super-user-management? We have the tools to allow you to completely customise your user experience.  From friends lists, bookmarks, in-site messaging, profiles, avatars, user-group controls to custom registration and workflow, we can provide the website tools to do it.
• Chat Forums / Message Boards
  Giving people of a like mind to chat can be a great way to build word-of-mouth advertising and improved search engine results.
• Blogs
  Not just for "blogging", blogs can be used to write case studies, project profiles, team profiles or anything else you want to write about regularly.  Not just a fantastic way to keep people up to date with what's happening in your business, blogs also do amazing things for search engine results
• Document Management & Document Supply
  Have numerous documents you're always emailing to people? Start sending them links intsead and let them download your standard terms & conditions!  Alternatively, set up secured client areas so that people can see all documents related to their job, project or matter.
• Wikis
  Wikis are so functional and versatile, they can be used for a variety of purposes.  Throw away office manuals and procedures - use a wiki!  Provide online tutorials and guides.  Build a glossary of terms and industry specifications to educate.  Best of all, wikis are great for search engine campaigns to improve your rankings.
• Calendars and Schedules
  Having trouble co-ordinating staff?  Need to maintain a public schedule of where you'll be at what time?  Have to manage events and functions?  Using scheduling tools on your website can achieve all of these things and more.
• Mailing Lists
  Want to send out periodic updates to your clients?  Marketing mailouts?  Latest offers and new products? No problem - we can integrate mail-out management software directly into your website or partner with leading mail-out manager companies like Constant Contact or Mail Chimp.
• Eye Candy
  Need a slide show wtih impact?  Perhaps a product rotator, latest products or latest news feed?  Glossy features with punch?  No problem at all.

Back End (Management) Website Tools

Website tools aren't just for the front end.  Managing your business website can take time, so we ensure you have the tools on the back end to manage your website more effectively.  Here are just some of the back-end tools we provide with our websites:

• Standard Tools
  Because we build all our sites with Joomla!, you automatically have content management, media management, simple editing, menu management and page management at your finger tips.  Joomla! truly is the most complete and robust Content Management System around!
• Complete backup
  Two clicks and you entire site, including all files, configurations, pictures, movies and databases are backed up.  This same system also allows you to duplicate your site rapidly (you would change the content of course!), move your website to another host if necessary or change your website design provider in a snap.
• Ultra-secure login
  Any hacker can find your administrator login page if they know how your website was built.  With this super simple ultra-secure login, they can no longer find the page at all, let alone attempt to hack it.
• Image Galleries
  We provide two different types of image gallery software as stock standard, so you can produce impressive image galleries with no assistance.
• Personalisation
  If you have a client login section, its nice to greet people by name.  Our websites have a stock standard tool that will allow you to greet people by name upon login, refer to their user name or email address.