A well designed website is worthless if it doesn't function flawlessly. Errors, slow load times and lack of scalability can be the death of a website. Northie and it's team of developers have years of experience building large websites that are error free, lightning fast and scalable. We've built sites that have withstood being on the front page of Digg (also know as the Digg effect) which can account for over 100,000 unique visitors in under 24 hours. We love PHP / MySQL here at Northie, but if your project calls for it we can also work with .NET.
We offer a number of website development services including:
Facebook Integration
Facebook has a number of tools to connect your site to your customers on Facebook, and their friends on Facebook. These tools can help you promote your website, products, blog posts, and anything else you have to offer on your site. If your site has a registration system you can use Facebook Connect to allow users to register with just two clicks. Research has shown that integrating Facebook Connect for registrations can increase registration rates by 30 - 200%! [Source: Facebook] With over 500 million active users and growing, Facebook has surpassed Google in traffic, accounting for over 7% of U.S. Web traffic. [Source: CNN]
Twitter Integration
Twitter has a number of tools to connect your site to your customers on Twitter, and their followers. "Tweet This" buttons can be added to blog posts, product pages, or your main homepage. Your Twitter stream can also be added to your site so customers can keep up with your tweets without leaving. With over 160 million accounts and 300,000 being added every day, Twitter is now receiving 3 billion requests each day, generated by 180 million unique visitors. More than 80% of users on Twitter are age 18+, so you'll be sure to find your customers on there. [Source: Website Monitoring]
Content Management System
We believe that websites are never complete, they are just launched. This not only applies to technologies but also to the content on your site. If you want to keep visitors coming back you better give them a reason to. A CMS allows you to change text, photos, links, and anything else on your site. You can update specials on your homepage, update the product of the week, or anything else you think will keep visitors coming back everyday.
Our CMS is easy to use and provides a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor that looks just like your favorite word processing program. With this WYSIWYG editor you can make text bold, underlined, add links and change the color of text. We also offer solutions for photo galleries that allow you to easily upload and organize your photos.
Blog
Having a blog on your site is another great way to keep visitors coming back, as well as help with search engine optimization. Both visitors and search engines love fresh content, especially about your industry. Your blog will allow you to write about what's going on with your company, the industry, and anything else you think your visitors might be interested in reading. Your blog can be designed to match your site design to the last pixel. With Northie Blogs there's no choosing from thousands of templates that don't look exactly how you want them, we create a custom one for you.
Ecommerce
If you sell a product then an online store is a necessity for your website. We can create an easy to use and easy to manage online store for your customers to shop 24/7. Your store can include reviews, social media integration ("Like" this item on Facebook, Tweet this item, etc) and user accounts so customers can save their shipping and billing information for future purchases.
Custom Applications
The applications listed above are just some of our more popular choices. The truth is we can build anything from social networks to Faceboook applications to iPhone applications. If you can dream it, we can build it. Go ahead, try and stump us! We love a challenge!
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