Site Developement [user & search engine friendly sites]
Gravitate Online knows how critical it is for a site to be build on a foundation that makes the site both user and search engine friendly. First, the site has to make it easy and intuitive for the users to navigate, load quickly and have a modern engaging layout that doesn’t look like it was built back in the 90′s. Equally important, the site has be have an infrastructure that search engines can easily read and index. If the URL structure partially encrypts the content on the page and the data based generated pages make the pages hard to read, naturally search engines are going to have a harder time getting you to show up in the appropriate search result pages, let alone rank you highly.
These are not just things that Gravitate Online considers while building your site, but actually are at the very core of everything we create. We know how to get your site to show up in premium locations on search engines and it all starts with the initial website development.
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Magento Development
- Most popular open source eCommerce platform
- Robust eCommerce features makes it a no-brainer
- Gravitate Online customizes the platform to fit your needs
Magento is the most popular open source eCommerce platform on the internet. The reason is simple- it provides a great infrastruture for building stores that are user and search engine friendly. Seamless integration with payment gateways, an intuitive checkout system and an almost endless selection of extensions have helped to make it the rage of of the open source development community.
Gravitate Online leverages these built in features and adds our own design and marketing expertise to make a Magento based site look stunning and at the same time get the attention of Google. We know how to build it so that it will quickly rank in even the most competitive search phrases in search engines.
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Enhanced eCommerce
- eBay and Amazon are internet’s most popular marketplaces
- Go where the customers already are waiting and integrated into your online store
- Gravitate Online integrates all your online selling venues into one place
eBay and Amazon are the most popular marketplaces on the entire internet. Millions of people purchase items from these two online stores every day. Many of our sellers have a strong presence on one or both of these venues, but have no way of integrating these with their current online store. It has been a problem for many years, with many sellers resorting to expensive 3rd parties that take a large percentage of their sales.
Gravitate Online believes there is a better way- how about letting you keep all this money and run your own system that integrates these marketplaces for you. It saves you thousands of dollars each month while providing an easy to use venue management system that will make fulfilling orders easier than ever.
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WordPress Development
- Most popular non-eCommerce and blogging platform
- Robust SEO features built in, with easy to use admin features
- Gravitate Online custom builds your site on a backbone that will grow with you
WordPress isn’t just for blogs anymore. As the most popular open-source non-eCommerce platform on the internet, it quickly grew out of simple blogs and now runs some of the internet’s largest sites. Robust and scalable admin features allow site owners to easily manage and grow their online presence. Adding pages and changing the design of your site has never been easier.
Gravitate Online knows how to draw visitors to your site with WordPress SEO features that are to die-for. Then, we draw them in with our custom designs that engage your potential customers and get them to call or write in to your business.
Custom Magento Development
Magento is a robust open source ecommerce platform that when customized will integrate with eBay and Amazon seamlessly. Once installed, hosted and customized it will allow online retailers to manage their store front, eBay and Amazon listings from one, user friendly interface. Retailers pay for the configuration once and then own the entire platform, allowing them to divert the money they are spending on expensive services like Infopia, Channel Advisor and Kyozou into marketing their websites directly.
Overview of Magento Features
Site Management
- Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
- Administration Permission System Roles and Users
- Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
- Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets
- Customer Groups
- Content Management System for Info Pages
Marketing and Promo Tools
- Flexible Coupons
- Catalog Promotional Pricing by percentage or fixed
- Free Shipping Option
- Multi-Tier Pricing for quantity discounts
- Bundled Products
- Customer Group-specific pricing
- Landing Page Tool for Campaigns
- Recently Viewed & Compared Products
- New Items Promotional Tool
- Up-sells & cross-sell in Shopping Cart
- RSS Feeds and polls
- Newsletter & Wishlist Management
Payment
- Configurable to authorize and charge, or authorize only and charge on creation of invoices
- Integrated with multiple PayPal gateways
- Integrated with Authorize.net
- Integrated with Google Checkout
- Saved Credit Card method for offline payments
- Accept Checks/Money Orders
- Accept Purchase Orders
Product Browsing
- Product Reviews
- Related Products
- Stock Availability
- Multi-Tier Pricing Upsell
- Product Option Selection
- Grouped Products View
- Add to Wishlist
- Send to a Friend with Email
Search Engine Optimization
- 100% Search Engine friendly infrastructure- ready for optimization
- Google Site Map
- URL Rewrites give full control of URL’s
- Meta-information for products and categories
- Site Map for display on site
- Integrated blog for easy content creation and upload
Checkout
- One-Page Checkout
- SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
- Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
- Shopping Cart with tax and shipping estimates
- Option to create account at beginning of checkout
- Accept gift messages per order and per item
- Saved Shopping Carts
Gravitate Online Enhancements
Gravitate Online transfers retailers from their current limited service onto a flexible and enhanced Magento system. Gravitate Online has also enhanced the Magento system to integrate with Amazon and eBay marketplaces, making it a perfect alternative to expensive, non-responsive and limited management systems. Once the transition is complete, retailers use their freed up resources and invest them directly with Gravitate Online to drive customers to their site, allowing Gravitate Online to do the transition for a fraction of the cost.
Custom WordPress Development
WordPress is an open source and robust software technology that makes creating feature rich and user friendly sites easy and fast. Gravitate Online utilizes WordPress for most non-ecommerce sites, increasing the speed to market and lowering the required investment, while producing secure, fast and great looking sites that make your business look professional and up-to-date. Starting out as a blog software, WordPress has now matured and is used to create large scale, enterprise websites.
Overview of WordPress Features
Site Management
- Code compliance, every bit code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C
- Administration Permission System Roles and Users
- Content Management System for Informational Pages
SEO
- Permalinks create SEO friendly URL’s for every page
- Easily optimized images
- Meta data for each page
- Clean code that is easily crawlable by search engines
- XML sitemap integrations
- Pinging options
Blog Integration
- Comments, visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries
- Spam protection
- Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
