splat-net aims to keep
your website clutter free, clean looking and easy for your visitors to
navigate around. Having cluttered pages, messy
navigation and lots of bells and whistles on your website can increase the
possibility of a visitor leaving your website in frustration.
If you would like to
learn more about websites,
please click here to see our guide to websites.
A webmaster is a
person responsible for designing, developing, marketing, or maintaining Web
site(s). The webmaster of a website may also be called a system
administrator, the author of a site, or the website administrator.
splat-net refers to
its' webmasters as Domain Managers as our work with managing client's
websites and and also their email addresses involves managing their domain name.
To
support you in your ownership of a domain name, we provide the following
website services:-
splat-net
can design your website for and with you.
Website's are a
collection of information about a particular topic, subject or business.
Designing a website involves the arrangement and creation of web pages that
collectively make up a website. For example, a website might be compared to
a book, where each page of the book is a web page.
Designing a website typically involves working on the following areas:
* The content of your site taking in to consideration your target
audience.
* The navigation of your site. How easy it is for your target
audience to get from page to page.
* The appearance, the style or branding of your site.
* The visibility of your site on the Internet within Search Engines
like Google or Yahoo.
splat-net can integrate your branding on to
your website for complete brand consistency.
Brand management is
the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line,
or brand. It seeks to increase the product's perceived value to the customer
and thereby increase brand franchise and brand equity.
splat-net
can design, implement and manage your online-shop or teach you how to do it.
Electronic Commerce
can be thought of as a market place in the Internet (an online-shop).
Electronic Commerce (also referred to as EC, e-commerce eCommerce or
ecommerce) consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling,
marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic system such
as the Internet and other computer networks.
splat-net can publish your website, webpages and alterations and updates to
it.
Once a website is
completed, it must be published or uploaded to the hosting web
server in order to be viewable to the public over the internet. This is done
using a programme called a FTP client.
splat-net
can set-up a redirection of your website or webpage to another website or
webpage.
Redirection
Examples:
Redirect a unused domain name you own like a .com to your existing .co.uk
website.
Redirect a product webpage to a limited special offer webpage.
splat-net
can maintain a domain name, email accounts and website register for you.
Keeping track of your
usernames and passwords can be time consuming but is very important.
Without them it would not be possible to manage your domain names, email
accounts or websites.
Your security and privacy it very important to splat-net. We will not pass
on your security details to anyone else without your express permission.
splat-net can maintain a regular back-up of your website or your
online-store.
To help protect you
from disasters, splat-net can back-up your websites and online-shops
when you request it, on a regular basis or just annually as a fall-back
precaution. We can also teach how to back-up your emails, contacts,
calendar, notes and tasks lists.
splat-net can arrange for you to have a SSL security certificate for your
website.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),
are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on
the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging and
other data transfers. The presence of an SSL on a webpage is represented by
a little padlock image that appears on the secure webpage and the addition
of an 's' in the https:// part of your browser address. SSL
reassures your visitors that their information is safe with you.
splat-net can
implement automation services for your customers to use via your website.
Automation of customer services
via your website can reduce time spent by staff on repetitive processes an
reduce your costs. Services offered via your website are available 24/7. This
opens up markets globally but more realistically, offers the consumer or
business customer the chance to trade with you out of normal hours.
Automation options
available from splat-net include:
Email Auto-Responders:
"thank you for your email but I'm away on holiday until..." or even
"thank you for your enquiry, we will get back to you within 24 hours..."
eCommerce:
selling your items or services via your website online-shop 24 hours a day,
all year.
Web automation applications have transformed industries like:
* Recruitment
* Travel
* Banking
* Estate Agents
* and many more...
splat-net can implement and teach you how to use your web-mail services.
Access your emails
via your website from any internet connected computer. Send & Receive
emails. You can also access your calendar, notes and tasks via your web-mail
service.
splat-net can provide you with a complete statistical breakdown of your
website visitors.
Website Statistics
Reports are available by request, on a regular basis or just once a year
for your own annual analysis. Details included in the reports include:
The number of
visitors, unique visitors, duration, last visits, authenticated users, days
of week and rush hours (pages, hits, KB for each hour and day of week),
domains/countries of hosts visitors, hosts list, unresolved IP addresses
list, most viewed and entry and exit pages, files type, operating systems
used by visitors, web-browsers used, visits of robots, worms attacks, search
engines, key-phrases and keywords used to find your site, pages not found,
number of times your site is added to visitor's favourites bookmarks, etc.
splat-net
can guide you through the pro's and con's of website content management.
This is a relatively
new web technology. The idea is that the clients control and edit the
content of their own website and web pages. Although this technology is
attractive because it offers the client the ability to keep the running
costs of owning a website down it normally restricts the options to alter
the main look of your website and to control the implementation and
management of interactive components. Client Content Management is ideal for
certain types of websites such as community websites where many people need
to contribute to different areas of the website.
splat-net
can set-up, take over the management of or migrate your existing hosting
services.
Web hosts are
companies that provide hosting space on a server they own for use by
their clients to store their website pages and files. A website browser will
retrieve a webpage for a website from these servers and display it in your
web browser on your computer.
Types of Hosting
services:
Free web hosting service: is free, (sometimes)
advertisement-supported web hosting, and is extremely limited when compared
to paid hosting.
Shared web hosting service: one's Web site is placed on the same
server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands.
Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as
the server's memory and its' processor.
Reseller web hosting: allows clients to become web hosts themselves.
Resellers could function, for individual domains, under any combination of
these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as
a provider.
Virtual Dedicated Server: slicing up a server into virtual servers.
each user feels like they're on their own dedicated server, but they're
actually sharing a server with many other users.
Dedicated hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server
and gains full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access
for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server.
Colocation web hosting service: similar to the dedicated web hosting
service, but the user owns the server; the hosting company provides physical
space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. This is the
most powerful and expensive type of the web hosting service. In most cases,
the colocation provider may provide little to no support directly for their
client's machine, providing only the electrical, Internet access, and
storage facilities for the server.
Clustered hosting: having multiple servers hosting the same content
for better resource utilisation.
splat-net can arrange for your website's search engine optimisation.
A variety of
techniques can be employed to increase the traffic, or hits, that your
website receives. This may include submitting your website to a search
engine such as Google or Yahoo, exchanging links with other websites,
creating affiliations with similar websites, etc.
Here are some other website services that splat-net can set-up for you...
ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
An integrated banner
management interface and tracking system for gathering statistics. You can
easily rotate paid banners and your own in-house advertisements. You can
even integrate banners from third party advertising companies.
AUCTION SYSTEM
An auction site application
offering Reserve price, Buy it now, Standard & Dutch auctions, Item &
Auction watch, among many others. It is a good starting point if you are
planning to develop your own custom web-based auction site.
BANNER ADVERTISEMENTS
Rotating banner adverts for
your website.
BLOGS
A blog is a user-generated
website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse
chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular
subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more
personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to
other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
CHAT ROOM
Online chat can refer to any
kind of communication over the internet, but is primarily meant to refer to
direct 1-on-1 text-based chat or text-based group chat.
CLASSIFIEDS SYSTEM
A classified advert system
that allows users to post advertisements to unlimited categories.
COUNTDOWN CLOCK
A countdown clock displays a
countdown to a specified date.
CRM
- CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
CRM is a broad term that
covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with
customers, including the capture, storage and analysis of customer
information.
E-LEARNING SYSTEMS
A Course Management System
(CMS) is a software package designed to help educators create effective
online learning communities. Scalable from a single-teacher site to a
50,000-student University.
ESTATE AGENT LISTING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Web based listing management
application for selling Houses etc.
FAMILY TREE SYSTEM
A genealogy website builder
which allows geographically dispersed family members to maintain a central
database of research which is readily accessible and editable. By having a
central repository, family members can contribute as and when information
becomes available without requiring them to send it to a central custodian,
or disseminate via email, and allows anecdotal information and possible
leads to be shared.
FAQ
SYTEMS
FAQ is an abbreviation for
"Frequently Asked Questions". The term refers to listed questions and their
answers. Can be a webpage on your website of a standalone FAQ system.
FORUM
A forum is a facility on the
www for holding discussions and posting user generated content.
GUESTBOOK
A guestbook is a logging
system that allows visitors of a website to leave a public comment.
HELP-DESKS
A support platform for you and
your website visitors or employees.
A help desk is an information and assistance resource for troubleshooting
products or services. Businesses often provide helpdesk support to their
customers via the telephone, website and/or e-mail. In-house helpdesks are
geared toward providing the same kind of help for employees only.
IMAGE GALLERIES
An image gallery gives you an
intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website
whether you have a small personal site or a large community site.
MAILING LISTS
A mailing list is a collection
of names and addresses used by an individual, a business or an organisation
to send emails to multiple recipients.
NEWS SYSTEM
A news management system uses files to store its database. It supports
commenting, archives, search function, file upload management, backup &
restore for news articles.
POLLS & SURVEY SYSTEMS
Opinion polls are surveys of opinion using sampling. They are usually
designed to represent the opinions of a population by asking a small number
of people a series of questions and then extrapolating the answers to the
larger group.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
A framework capable of hosting applications like a group calendar,
Address-Book, Email, accounting ledger, inventory, and whatever else your
can think of. These applications can share a common user store, and a
flexible system to control access and information sharing.
SEARCH ENGINE SYSTEM
A search query is entered by a
visitor to your website, results matching that query from your website are
displayed for your visitor to choose from.
SUPPORT TICKET SYSTEMS
Support request "tickets" are
created via email and web-based form with a simple web interface. Easily
manage, organise and archive all your support requests. Your visitors will
also be able to view tickets status and history online.
WEB
CALENDAR SYSTEM
A Web-Calendar is a web-based
calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a
multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by
your website visitors.
VISITOR COUNTER
A visitor counter counts and
show how many visitors have been to your website.
