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Why should we hire your services? |
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With our services, you'll have access to the full expertise of our technical team and consultants. We provide expert support, training, and assistance with planning and managing your catalog content development strategy. Since content and catalog data management are our specialties, our consultant and programmers can help you quickly categorize your products and create rich granular detail for easier and more intuitive product searches.
Our consultants are expert across a wide variety of industries (including automotive, property, merchandising, manufacturing, distribution, electrical, etc.), and can help you with issues that range from formatting graphics and content files for multiple applications, to assisting you setting up the website.
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Does CATALOG2U have any specilized functions for B2B vs. B2C catalogs? |
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B2B Catalogs tend to be easy on photography and artwork but have a bigger volume of pages. B2C Catalogs however, tend to be more art intensive and require efficiencies in areas of photography, shot lists and copywriting.
CATALOG2U program is designed in a modular fashion to accomodate different types of catalogs. Our easy to use software combines these capabilities and our implementation team exploits them appropriately to provide you with the best solution. So, regardless of your catalog audience, you can rely on the efficiencies that CATALOG2U will bring you. |
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Will my online store look unique and professional? |
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Yes! We don't believe in cookie-cutter sites. You have complete control over the look of your site. We design the look and feel of your web site to fit your liking but you can manage it yourself. |
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Can an e-commerce component be added to my existing Web site? |
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Of course. If you already have an existing Web site, it is easy to add an e-commerce section to your site. Go here for more detail. |
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Can we use an existing web host if we already have one? |
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Of course you can use another web host to store our catalog system. The web hosting provider just needs to have server side programming PHP and MySQL features for our catalog to function properly. |
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Can I change my online store once I've created it? |
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Yes. You can update your catalog or e-commerce site as often as you want, from any internet connected computer. Some of our customers update their sites several times a day. You can edit your site behind the scenes, while visitors continue to shop at the current version of your online store. Then, when you publish your revisions, the updated version of your site becomes visible instantly. |
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How can I manage my portfolio of products?
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You can manage your portfolio of thousands of products using our Product Manager. The Product Manager comes with standard and user-defined fields that hold details about each item in your inventory, such as Product Name, ID, Price, and Size. It also allows you to describe each product with captions and images. |
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What is the website design / catalog setup turnaround time? |
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Design works turnaround time for normally 5-10 business days. Custom e-commerce site design takes roughly 2-3 weeks, depending on your package and complexity of your design, the schedules of our designers, and the rate at which we receive feedback from you.
Our project coordinator will provide an accurate start and completion date for your project upon receipt of all documents.
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What about payment gateway and shipping integration on e-commerce websites? |
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We can integrate the most common methods on our e-commerce websites, however you might have a specific request and it might take some time to study that specific case. We're open to talk with you and help you during the integration process but we work must together during the process. It may impact the amount of time we initially defined at the start of the project. So keep that in mind and try to keep shipping instructions simple and use common payment getaways providers. Common things make life easier. |
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What is a protosite? |
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A "protosite" its just a preliminary drawing of your future website. It helps both you and Directory One establish the way your website will look. Elements such as page layout, colors, item position, navigation, etc. can be mocked up to speed the design process. If changes (colors, moving things around the page layout, adding columns, text, images, etc.) are needed they can be made before actual coding begins. Once you approve your protosite, we move forward and we will code the protosite you approve into your new website. |
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What is a website architecture? |
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It's something that will help us visualize all your website sections. This its very helpful as it will help the development process. You as the owner, will know what areas your website will cover; a web designer will know exactly what pages he needs to build and the content developer (writer) will know what content he needs to build for each specific areas. |
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Why we need to define website architecture? |
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Building a website without the website architecture its like building a house without a blueprint. We need to write on paper your ideas with our knowledge and suggestions before we start coding. We'll then code as planned. Otherwise imagine how difficult it might be for an architect to add or remove columns to a house and how expensive it might also be for you to pay for materials and resources each time the architect add or remove a new column. When we keep things organized it helps the process to get it complete quickly. |
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Do Flash movies affects my Search Engine rankings? |
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In theory Google can index Flash movies, but we don't think Flash movies/content gets very indexed very well. With things being as competitive as are right now for keyword/key-phrases optimization we don't recommend using them. However, if Flash annimation is important to you and you're up to the challenge, go for it. |
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Why can't I find my web site in the search engines? |
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Once your site has been submitted to the top Search Engines they may require several weeks, or even months to actually spider and list your web site in their directory. How fast your site is listed depends on each individual Search Engines database update schedule. Watch your server traffic logs for visiting spiders.
We suggest you use Guaranteed Search Engine Submit. Please contact our consultant for more info. |
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What aftersales support do you offer? |
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After the completion of a website project we are available for after sales service. Any slight tweaks or amendments are carried out to the site free of charge in the first month. Any support thereafter will be charged based on scope of works.
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