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Contact Details Kevin James BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD, FIAP Member of The Society of Authors Fellow of The Institution of Analysts and Programmers
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t/a K James Software Development, 22 Beech Road, Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 2AR
Tel/Fax: (01384) 395759 (Answering service outside office hours) E-mail: info@kjames-software.co.uk
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e-Commerce Solutions A variety of e-commerce systems can be built to your requirements. These include database-driven web sites and ASP.Net applications, XML-driven applications, e-Shop packages, and integration with secure payment processing services such as PayPal or WorldPay. As an alternative to conventional MS Access / SQL based systems, I also offer a less costly bespoke e-commerce solution: e-Merge. This is an easy-to-use web-generating database designed specifically for small to medium e-commerce and cataloguing applications. It is simple, flexible and can be tailored precisely to your needs for as little as £500.
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Simple Item Categorisation |
Supplied as part of your bespoke web-design, e-Merge allows you to maintain a hierarchical database of all of the items you want to appear on your web site (e.g. products for sale). You can specify whatever product categories you need, and you can nest sub-categories up to eight levels deep! All that is needed is to enter the appropriate details of each product into a tailor-made form (below). This form is designed specifically for you, so it is very easy to use. |
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Bespoke Product Database |
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Enter details such as product title, description, price, stock code, photographs, and information on product variants (e.g. size, colour etc.) Then, at the click of a mouse, e-Merge will automatically create your complete e-commerce web site. This includes your on-line catalogue and product-ordering pages, together with menus, hyperlinks and other navigation aids.
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Automatic Web-Page Creation |
Your web pages are laid out in accordance with templates designed especially for your application. You get the high-quality presentation you would expect of a professionally designed bespoke web site; the simplicity and flexibility of your own dedicated product database, and full compatibility with third-party payment systems such as PayPal. It's also very affordable. A fully bespoke e-commerce site can be created for as little as £500. e-Merge is not limited to e-commerce applications, either. It can be used just as effectively for managing any type of hierarchical web-based data. |
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Other Benefits
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e-Merge Categorized Web-Page Generator At the heart of e-Merge is a technology somewhat analogous the "mail-merge" facility common in word processing packages. Instead of using a mailing template, however, e-Merge employs a bespoke HTML template that defines the appearance and functionality of each resulting web page. Not only is e-Merge ideal for building and maintaining e-commerce sites, it also offers a simple and elegant means of presenting all types of categorized lists on the web. Some of the more obvious applications include on-line marketing, advertising job vacancies, presenting collections, notice boards and web-based catalogues. e-Merge runs under Windows NT4(SP6), 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, and XP. |
Simple to Use Your bespoke implementation of e-Merge is designed to reflect the logic of your own particular application. Because its design corresponds precisely to the processes and information that are central to your business, e-Merge is very straightforward to use. It employs a standard Windows user interface, so even if you have only a passing familiarity with PCs you should have no difficulty mastering e-Merge. Just specify whatever text and images you want for each item or category, then build all of your web pages with a single mouse click. Every image and piece of text you enter is automatically formatted (according to your bespoke page design), forming a clean and consistent hierarchical web presentation. |
A Very Economical Means of Building and Maintaining your Site Because every implementation of e-Merge is built upon a standard DVI (Dynamic Variable Insertion) core technology, the your site's design and integration costs are minimal. The software is customised precisely to your needs and this greatly streamlines web maintenance. Whether you plan to keep the site updated yourself, or employ a third party to do it for you, e-Merge will undoubtedly minimise your ongoing maintenance costs as well. A typical e-commerce application costs from £500 to £750 using e-Merge. This includes a bespoke implementation of the e-Merge database and web-page generator; custom designed web-page templates; static ancilliary pages (e.g. your contact details, Terms & Conditions etc.), arranging your web hosting and domain name, and, of course, full instruction. |
Bespoke Web Design with e-Merge The whole e-Merge system is constructed specially for you, in accordance with an agreed design specification. It is supplied, fully configured and ready to use, together with page templates and any static web pages that your site requires:
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Flexible Tailor-Made Product Database As standard, every bespoke implementation of e-Merge offers:
Even a standard implementation of e-Merge is extremely flexible, but because yours will be designed specifically for you, there is an almost unlimited scope for including whatever additional features you might require. |
Compatible with Third-Party On-line Payment Systems e-Merge is designed for use with third-party credit-card payment and order-processing systems like the very popular PayPal. Indeed, e-Merge offers the ultimate interfacing flexibility. It can be configured for use with almost any third-party web resource. Whether it's a full payment system or just a simple hit counter, e-Merge can generate an interface to any entity that could normally be addressed from a standard HTML web page. |
Compatible with Virtually any Web Host Unlike many e-commerce systems, e-Merge does not require:
The corollary is that, e-Merge remains fully compatible with all popular web servers. Your e-Merge-based web site will coexist with FrontPage Server Extensions and SharePoint Team Services, as well as with proprietary server-side e-commerce software. It will also work in a relatively limited amount of web space. A fully illustrated, small to medium e-commerce site can usually be accommodated within 50MB of web space - often much less (the actual limit will depend largely upon the number of product images you wish to display). |
Compatible with All HTML Web-Page Editors e-Merge gives you total flexibility in modifying your web site. Its templates and static pages can be altered easily with any HTML web-page editor, word processor or text editor, for example:
This list is far from exhaustive: in fact, e-Merge templates and web pages can be modified with any program that is capable of editing plain text files. |
