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Information about the design of your ecommerce website 
Providing affordable ecommerce website design
About Peter Day, ecommerce website designer
An interview with Peter Day, about ecommerce website design
History - Over 20 years of design experience.
Company Mission
Company Vision
Website design awards
What clients say about our ecommerce website design
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Providing affordable ecommerce website design
Your Online Shop was created by Peter Day to provide an affordable and fully customised ecommerce website design solution specifically for small and new businesses. Until now, setting up and running an ecommerce website and selling your products on-line was either too expensive, or too restrictive for small and new businesses to do. The alternatives have been to either spend many thousands of dollars with an ecommerce website design company, who would design a customised ecommerce website using expensive licensed and proprietary technologies, or use a run of the mill template based, off the shelf shopping cart style ecommerce website design, where you would be charged a setup fee and an on-going monthly fee just to use their website. This meant the success of your on-line business relied heavily upon the ecommerce design company staying in business. If your ecommerce website design company goes out of business, so do you because you cant transfer your ecommerce website elsewhere.
Your Online Shop design ecommerce websites differently. They quickly design and create you a very affordable, customised ecommerce website using free open source hi-technologies like PHP and MSYQL, built around the worlds most successful and trusted open source ecommerce website shopping cart engine, OsCommerce. Have you heard the saying "There is no point in re-inventing the wheel"? Your Online Shop have, which is why their ecommerce websites are built around OsCommerce shopping cart technologies, so you dont have to pay to develop something that already exists and is proven to work.
With an ecommerce website custom designed by Your Online Shop, there are no licensing fees to pay, no quirky ecommerce design company specific software that forever locks you in to any one website design company and you get the freedom to have your customised ecommerce website hosted wherever you want, giving you security and peace of mind when operating your ecommerce website.
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About Peter Day, ecommerce website designer |
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Customer service is Peter´s passion. Understanding the value of personal attention has shaped how he does business. This personal approach helps Peter better understand your business and your business´s website design needs.
Peter Day
~ Proprietor
~ Graphic Designer
~ Ecommerce Website Designer
~ Webmaster
Visit Peters ecommerce website design profile on
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An interview with Peter Day, about ecommerce website design |
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Describe your company in just a few words.
Affordable, creative and helpful.
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How was your company name chosen?
To reflect the diverse skills required to design an ecommerce website and market and sell products on-line. Selling products online is more than just having a company design you an ecommerce website. Its about ensuring the ecommerce website delivers a return for its owner. This can be more quickly achieved by making it easy for customers to buy products through clever ecommerce website design and by making it easier to find products on the internet through website promotion, website marketing and search engine optimisation.
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What´s your business philosophy?
To provide clients with the most affordable and functional customised ecommerce website design solution available. To maintain my clients satisfaction with their ecommerce website, to be there to assist in the on-going running and management of their ecommerce website and to help grow their on line stop into a strong ecommerce business.
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Describe your office environment.
My Office can be anywhere - home, at my clients and even at cafes. All of my work is performed on my Apple Powerbook Pro. I have set it up to run as a portable Web server, so I can work on and demonstrate functioning ecommerce websites to my clients anywhere at any time.
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What technologies do you use when designing ecommerce websites?
My main work computer is an Apple Macbook pro running Apache 2 web server, PHP 5 and MySQL. For straight coding for ecommerce, I use BBEDIT and for website design and layout, I use Dreamweaver. To create and edit website images, I use Photoshop.
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Describe how your team interact and work together.
Its a great team - just me, my laptop and my client!
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What makes you different from other web design companies?
I take time to listen to what the clients wants in an ecommerce website design and then work hard to provide the best and most cost effect solution to their requirements. Understandably, most clients have only a little understanding of what is required to design and operate an ecommerce website. This is due to the complex technologies used in ecommerce website design, so I try to avoid speaking to clients using complex technical terminology and instead explain with language that is far less confusing.
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How do you get the majority of your business?
By referrals from clients I have designed ecommerce websites for and the through my website on the internet.
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What do you think is the most crucial element of creating a good client relationship?
Clear communication is the key. Ecommerce websites rely on advanced technology to operate and as a client, you need to know exactly what sort of ecommerce website design you are getting and that its what you want. Thats why I make sure everything I explain about the project is in plain english, without using lots of technical terms. As you learn more about your ecommerce websites operation and as your on-line business grows, you will have questions and request modifications to your ecommerce website. I believe it is important to respond to these requests promptly and do not want to keep clients waiting. This is why I am happy for clients to contact me directly on my mobile, personal email and even at home.
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How do you manage demanding clients?
With patience. I understand my clients ecommerce website is important to them and the technology behind the design can be very confusing.
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If a client was trying to decide between a shortlist of web design companies, how would you recommend they go about selecting the right one for them?
Ask for testimonials from clients who have had ecommerce website design work completed. Contact them and ask if they are satisfied with the service and would they recommend them for ecommerce website design. Look at the designers previous ecommerce website design work. Do you like what they have done? Find out how long have they been in business. See how fast their ecommerce websites run on the internet. Ask them can you regularly download a copy of the database for your ecommerce website - all ecommerce websites need a database to run. Ask if you can host your ecommerce website elsewhere. Is the technology used to create your ecommerce website free and open source, or has the technology been designed only by this website design company. If its not open source you could be locked in to using only that designers ecommerce website design technology. If they go out of business what will you do. Find out if its easy and what it might cost to change and modify your ecommerce website as your ecommerce business grows.
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Where do you see your company in 10 years time?
To continue to be a successful ecommerce website design solution for small business. To stay ahead of the changes taking place in ecommerce and the the way business is conducted using the world wide web.
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Where do you see the ecommerce website design industry in the future?
Its an exciting and high growth industry. Sales over the internet of all types of products, are expanding at an unbelievably fast rate. The internet uniquely provides the possibilities for anyone to sell and market their products and services to the world, cheaply and effectively.
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If you were to give your clients one tip on how to get the most from their ecommerce website what would it be?
Take time every week to update your ecommerce website with fresh new information and content. This will help keep customers interested in your products and more confident to buy from you. It will also help with your search engine ranking position.
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History - Over 20 years of design experience.
Your Online Shop is a part of PDA Design, a graphic design business established in 1987 by Peter Day. PDA Design´s purpose was to provide a ´one stop shop´ offering a complete range of design and print services, with a commitment to service, quality and value. Success followed as PDA Design quickly become a cost effective alternative to main stream ad design agencies, graphic designers and printers. In the early 1990´s, with the world wide web proving a viable means of reaching more clients, Peter combined his design, computer programming and internet technology knowledge to begin designing websites for businesses to help them enter this new and exciting domain. Today Your Online Shop provides a quality of ecommerce website design professionalism, gained from over 20 years of "hands on" design experience, catering specifically to the needs of small to medium sized businesses.
Mission
Your on-line Shop´s mission is to provide you with the most affordable and functional customised ecommerce website design available. Apply the latest search engine optimisation techniques for ecommerce website design to make it easy for potential customers to find your products on search engines. Offer you practical and effective ecommerce website promotion strategies that will help build your ecommerce business. Maintain your satisfaction with your ecommerce website by being there to assist you in the on-going management of your ecommerce website, helping grow your on line store into a strong ecommerce on line business.
Vision
Your Online Shop´s vision for the future is to continue to be a successful ecommerce website design, search engine optimisation and website marketing solution for small business. To always stay ahead of the changes taking place in ecommerce website design, search engine optimisation, website marketing and the way ecommerce business is conducted on the world wide web. |
Website design awards
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International Association of Web Masters & Design
Gold Award 2004 |
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The World Wide Web Award 2004 |
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This web site conforms to W3C standards. Does Yours?
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Youronlineshop worked on my website when it became in-operational. Peter is quick to assist even though the original website was not designed with them. I found this to be exceptional service as they were result focused and expedient and met my goal of getting a new website up and running ...
Robert Chomaniuk - New Look Image Design
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