What is the difference between basic website, business website, e-commerce and custom website?
websoftsc2019-08-07T17:56:13+02:00In essence the difference lies in the website’s functionality.
Basic website
includes the following functionality in few pages, a brief description about you, your contact information, and a gallery/ pictures. It’s suitable for:
- Introduction of a small or starting business
- Seldom popularization of a single product or package of products/services. In this case the main advantage is, that we put an accent on this particular product or service (we emphasize on it)
- Personalized introduction on the internet for bloggers or freelancers – e.g. people that rely on their personal popularity, their personal knowledge and skills, on their personal authority when describing themselves and making their image on the internet.
Who is the basic website not suited for?
The basic website is not recommended for internet stores, or businesses that need dynamics in their representation, or businesses that need attaching to a lot of application to the website such as:
- Order tracking
- Product catalogue with the ability to purchase and order through the internet (e-cart)
- CRM implementation
- Attaching other extras such as online games, calculators, and the likes.
Business website
It’s functionalities include introduction of your business with at least few dynamic modules. To them we can generate few data bases, including establishing a link to CRM systems. The site may include the options to add different classes of users – normal users, moderators, administrators that can have different levels of access and rights. You can include statistics for the attendance and the sources. There are more advanced options for the gallery by which we mean, that you can add descriptions to the photos in the gallery, which gives more information to the users, improves the quality of your SEO, and in turn your search engine ranking.
E-commerce
In essence is a platform for trading on the internet. The main goal of this platform is online sales. There are some distinct features here:
- Suffice to say that this trade may include other people’s credit card information and because of that all the security measures must be top notch. In turn that requires exceptionally good administration and website support.
- Second the gallery must support the feature to send the products chosen by the users to their shopping cart
- Its desirable that after the order the user can track its movement – this is the so called tracking module, that requires your website to be connected to a shipping company, which gives coordinates to this module and it shows the user where his order is located. Usually this would make the building of your website substantially more expensive.
Custom website
This platform gives the user the opportunity to choose for them self what applications and modules are needed for his business. Any application can already exist and just needs to be integrate a suitable version on the website. Some examples are:
- Calculators
- Online dictionaries
- Integrated map with the ability to show routes
- The ability to integrate user forum
- Custom gallery, that except the standard features includes advanced ones for example to one base product to be able to add different extras and the calculation of the product’s price and the added extras to be done automatically or for the product to be show different formats such as color gamut, dimensions, items in stock and others.