E-commerce sites

Many of my clients are now selling products over the internet, having moved on from plain "brochureware" sites. Having tried many different packages over the years, I have decided to "buy British" and settle on the Surrey-based Actinic products, for which I am an approved and trained partner. These provide shop functionality that is hard to beat, and the latest version includes WYSIWYG editing for shop layouts, an intuitive product-tree interface for amending product details, links to all the main payment gateways like WorldPay, Paypal, Protx etc. and lots of features such as "best sellers list", "latest products" and "also bought" options.

The web shop operation divides squarely into two parts; site creation (software licensing, design framework, layout, network connections and so on), and shop management (design fine-tuning, adding products, changing prices, processing orders etc.). The former is what I would do for you, the latter is what you do on a day-to-day basis. However, and unusually amongst web designers, I also run my own web shop too (for a separate business), using the Actinic package. So as well as being able to set up your site, I can also share my experiences of everyday operation. The advanced features, such as special offers, voucher discounts, tax and shipping options often take someone who has some hands-on experience to know how to use them.

Finally, being an approved Actinic partner means I have direct access to the support team, so any time the package is not working as you expected, we can get the people who wrote the software to propose a solution. Here are a few examples of Actinic sites on my network:

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