Ecommerce Web Design Portal: Listings

Below is the 'demo' version of the relevant page in our e-book.

ECommerce Portals: Adding Features

Try to find a hosting company that supplies the features you need, as adding extra services/components to a shared server can be difficult. The portal components listed here are more for dedicated or in-house servers, though you may be able to link across to a third-party server. The better services obviously shade into customer relationship and information management portals.

1. site. Customer billing and management.

2. site. Adds a comprehensive search mechanism to your site. $199.

3. site. Gives you a personalized current newspage on the Ananova server.

5. site. Provides customer surveys and searchable database for your site: add-on software or site hosting.

6. site. Classified ads software. Fully automated. $429.

7. site. Manages customer billing.

8. site. Adds a free (for visitors) chatroom. Free with adverts; otherwise from $4.95/month.

9. site. Web-based collaboration and message boards for financial institutions.

10. site. Poll manager: cgi (Perl 5) script to run polls on your site. $99.

11. Site Adds classified ads pages to your site. Payments taken in Nochex and Paypal. Over 50 individual Perl scripts for $150. $25 setup if required.

12. Site Interactive customer communications over phone and Internet.

13. Site Adds audio and video to site.

14. Site An intelligent search engine for ecommerce and information portals.

15. Site Offers range of portal ad-ons, including a classified ads board (at $25/month to rent or $495 to purchase.)

16. Site Adds streaming multimedia.

17. Site Handles document distribution and sale.

18. Site Tools to add Fedex shipping rates, tracking and address checker to your site.

19. Site Perl script for a search engine facility on your site. $40/license.

20. Site Some 30 chat room and bulletin board codes: free, but you'll have to know C++, Perl, etc.

21. site. Adds a search facility to your site, logging results of searches for site optimization. Free for personal sites. From $19/month for commercial sites.

22. Site Adds a search facility to your site. Basic small business version is free.

23. Site Interactive chat, message boards and group discussion areas.

24. Site Offers 3 bulletin boards. Offered as hosting deal or from $199.

25. Site Enables a visitor to search the LinkSpider directory from your portal.

26. Site Adds an ASP-based message board to your site. $39.

27. Site Lets you provide customers with access-protected documents.

28. Site Provides strategic billing.

29. Site Manages security access to portals.

30. Site Allows transmission of legally-binding forms.

31. Site Portal tools (newsletter, surveys, referral generator, etc.) or complete portal builds.

32. Site Adds realtime currency conversion to your site. Commission is 1%.

33. Site Hardware, hosting and software for UPS shipping and tracking.

34. Site Adds a bulletin board. $85/year or $160 for purchase. German version also available.

35. Site Offer various website add-ons: forums, audio, free content, etc.

36. site. Software to create and manage classified ads. $50.

37. Site Free application facilitating collaboration on ecommerce and portal sites.

Renting an ECommerce Portal

Many all-in hosting companies offer what is virtually an e-business portal at modest rates. Check the terms and conditions carefully of specific portal suppliers, however, as some charge commissions on sales and/or require you to display their adverts. And if you outsource to an Application Service Provider, do ensure you understand the pros and cons of the various portal packages now available.

1. site. Range of solutions for SMEs and corporations.

2. site. Very fully-featured portal aimed at local communities. Setup is $29; hosting is free if you carry advertising. Other tools at cost.

Building an ECommerce Portal

Many of the better storefront programs will create portals, but the following are aimed specifically at portal build.

2. site. Part of the popular Actinic range. Many advanced features, including product searching across all sites in the portal. £20,000.

3. site. Combines more than 25 e-business applications in the one package.

4. site. 9i Application Server. Fast-build solutions for e-business data.

5. site. Portal build company for hotels sector etc. Uses intelligent search engines to collect and classify relevant URLs.

Customer Relationship Management Portals

Some CRM portal packages/systems can be expanded to Information portals proper. Check with the supplier, as the two are not entirely distinct. A selection of the many packages and systems now available is provided on our corporate resources page.

Information / Content Management Portals / Servers

Once your site has grown to some hundreds of pages, you'll want to consider automating update with content management software, listed on our corporate resources page.

Background Information and Listings

Choosing a portal server, building the site and handling data flow is rather technical. These sites will help you appreciate the many factors involved.

1. site. Lists portal programs with brief descriptions. Also search here for CRM software.

2. site. Useful articles; more when you subscribe.

3. site. Helpful introduction to portal programs and their evaluation.

4. site. Thorough technical evaluations of the better-known portal servers.

5. site. Large listing of portals under various categories.

6. site. Brief portal news, events and listings.

7. site. Introductory articles on all aspects of portal build and maintenance.

E-Book

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