At PPS we realise that web-sites are incredibly important to Companies wishing to attract custom and trade over the Internet. Not only are they shop-windows, but can also be retail areas and point-of-sales - many companies now trade exclusively over the Internet with no physical trading areas whatsoever. If a potential customer does not like a site, or finds it time-consuming to use, then that customer will simply go elsewhere and probably never come back.

The Internet, and 'e-commerce', is still relatively in its infancy. Libraries are full of books covering shop and store merchandising techniques; what the ideal height of a product is on a shelf, what products sell best when placed near a sales-point, what different colour-schemes to use for different product-lines etc....  Students can even gain State qualifications in merchandising and the science behind it.  E-commerce however is still evolving, partly due to rapidly moving technology and partly due to the constantly falling cost-of-use attracting ever-more people.  The developers at PPS at constantly browsing the Internet, studying both successful and not-so-successful sites, to ensure they know what works and what does not.  Coupled with ensuring they keep up to date with the latest development techniques and technologies, our developers make sure your website is perfectly suited for the task it must perform.

Website design companies, around the Globe, have still not found a ideal or comfortable method of charging or presenting their pricing structures.  Some use a cost-per-page policy, some use a daily-rate system.  PPS have decided that their is no single, easy, way of pricing. Per-page systems work well when sites are presentation-based, with pages simply presenting information to users, but are totally inappropriate for data-driven dynamic sites where the pages may be being created by software analysing the data contained in a database. A daily-rate system works well when the client company has the technical skills to know exactly what is to be done to realise the required site. Everyday we hear stories of sites costing 'far more than envisaged' and companies having to re-evaluate their WWW presence (Almost every week on the News is a story of another company struggling due to rising costs!). At PPS we believe there is no silver-bullet, no single simple way of pricing a web-site. Therefore, when we are approached to develop a new-site, we begin by working closely with the client to determine the exact requirements of the site, what the client expects and what the design must achieve. We will then quote a fixed-price for the design and hosting (if required) as well as the charges for updates/maintenance based on the function of the site. Contact us to discuss (without obligation) your website, or any further information you required,