e-commerce web sites for business

As a professional, Scottish, freelance designer, I specialize in e-commerce web sites and content management systems for business. Where the main focus of the site is online selling of a medium-to-large product range, I would usually recommend osCommerce and, for a business web site where the priority is achieving a cost-effective method of maintaining fresh content in an evolving site, the Content Management System I would recommend, without hesitation, is Joomla. Three reasons:

1. they're both open-source, i.e. effectively free
2. they're both at the very top of their field
3. I've been installing and customizing them for years and they just keep getting better.

I still get satisfaction from designing static-html web sites so, if you really won't need to update the content on your web site for quite a while, I'd be delighted to give you a first-class, clean-coded, css-based, professional-looking, bangless and whistleless business web site. Most importantly, you'll find your expectations have been met and surpassed, because that's what I set out to do; designing websites is just a part of the job.

e-commerce can be cheap (...without looking cheap)

Opting for the world-leading open-source (free) osCommerce cart means that you get cutting-edge performance, maximum security and reliability for the absolute minimum outlay.
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content management systems for business

Hailed as the best content management system in the world, Joomla is open source and freely available. It facilitates ongoing management and updating of a business web site, and requiring no more than average computer skills. In the short term, a customized Joomla content management system can be much less expensive than a comparable static html web site created by a professional web designer. In the long term, however, there can be nothing more cost-effective since subsequent changes and additions to site content are performed in-house without the need to involve your web designer. New pages can be created and old pages edited in seconds, all at zero cost. Read more about content management systems...

business website design

A Masonhost-built web site is designed to reflect the strengths of your business. Take this site as an example. Web design in Scotland is highly competitive. To give my business the edge, I need: 1) good Search Engine optimization to bring a targeted audience to the site; 2) since business web site design connotes technology and complexity, I want a simple, three-column, no-frills layout and, above all, no bull :) Read more about business web site design...

screenshots:   masonhost-designed business websites

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