Custom web design for quilt shops and quilt businesses
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Why Not A Template?
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Wild & Woolly Web
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I Can't Wait
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How To Spot A Bargain
Skip The Gimmicks
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Matching Key Phrase
Who's Ahead?
Visit Your Visitors
Shopping Carts:
Test Drive That Cart
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Custom Web Design

Custom web sites are professionally designed exclusively for your business. We will work closely with you to create a design that matches your business and that greatly pleases you. Please see our portfolio for examples of our work. You'll find that the custom web sites we've created show a level of professionalism and creativity found in few other quilt or craft web sites. If you think you might be interested in a custom web site, please contact us via email or phone at (479) 677-2235. We look forward to talking with you about your web site desires and plans.

Most professional web designers can offer you a well-functioning web site, but we can offer you a web site that integrates a great knowledge of quilting and crafting into the design and functioning of the site. We listen carefully to you, the business owner, about your business, your desires, your needs, and your customers. We work closely with you to develop a web site that reflects your business, is user friendly and easy for you to maintain. We understand your business needs because we specialize in web sites for quilt shops and other crafting businesses. We guarantee our work and provide expert and friendly telephone and email support. If you are on a tight budget, be sure to take a look at our Economy Web Site Design Packages.

You can add our shopping cart to your custom web site for a one time fee of $499. The shopping cart is especially designed for quilt and craft businesses and has special features to help you sell fabric. There are no extra monthly charges associated with our shopping cart. Please see the details about the shopping cart below.

Our newsletter software is an excellent addition for almost all custom web sites. The best way to bring online customers back to your online store is to stay in touch with them. Our email newsletter allows you to do this easily. You enter all of your text and photos for the newsletter in a private area of your own web site. the newsletter is displayed on your web site and can be emailed out to your mailing list. New customers can sign up for the newsletter right on your web site and their email addresses are automatically added to the database. You can email out the newsletter to your customers with the click of a button. The newsletter software has a one time fee of just $499.

The Quilt Professionals class list software is an excellent option for quilt shops or stores selling sewing machines. Your classes are easily listed on your web site and your customers can search for classes by type of class and teacher.

Details about the Quilt Professionals shopping cart are provided below.


Shopping Cart		   
  • Easy for your customers to find and buy the products they want
  • No monthly or per product fees.
  • Displays over a thousand products, each with its own photograph. Attractive display.
  • 10 products installed in shopping cart (product descriptions and electronic or photographic images provided by customer). 
  • Product information stored in your own shop database. You don't lose your product data if your web host goes out of business or you decide to change web hosts.
  • Special fabric display options. Every piece of fabric can be simultaneously categorized up to ten different ways. Makes it very easy for customers to find the fabrics they want.
  • Easily add and update products on a secure page on your web site. (To add pictures of the products you will need a scanner or digital camera and FTP or other software allowing you to upload the graphics to your web site.) 
  • Whenever an order is placed, both you and the customer receive an email confirmation.
  • View orders right on your web site. Print orders out on your printer.
  • Easily change shipping and sales tax charges right on your web site.
  • Includes installation of the shopping cart on your web site on our recommended web host. (Please review what you'll need, below.)
  • Includes our fabric calculator
  • Microsoft Access database. (You own the database that contains your product catalog. This is important because you won't lose your product listings if you decide to change web hosts.)

What you'll need for your e-commerce web site: Your shopping cart and store will need some basic supports in order to operate properly. We will be happy to help you understand and obtain the necessary supports. Please see our Quilter's Guide to Placing Your Business on the Web for additional help in understanding these requirements.

  • Compatible web host: Your web host must use a Windows server and provide support for Active Server Pages, ASP.Net and an Access database. We ask that you use our recommended web host to provide these services.
  • SSL certificate (optional): If you plan to take credit card information online (rather than calling the customer for the credit card number), you will need to obtain a security (SSL) certificate. Our recommended web host will allow you to use one of their shared certificates at no cost to you.
  • Compatible payment gateway/processor (optional): If you want to process credit cards online (rather than in your bricks and mortar store), you must acquire the services of either 1) a third party payment processor or 2) a payment gateway and an internet merchant account. The Quilt Professionals shopping cart is compatible with PayPal or Authorize.net. We charge a setup fee to connect to Authorize.net, but the connection to PayPal comes free with the cart.

 

 

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