Website solutions

We've been helping clients realize their website projects since 1995. We have a wide breadth of skills and proven experience whether your needs are a very simple starter website or a complete online shop solution.

The first step is a meeting with you to determine what the requirements are for your new site and produce a cost estimate. We recommend most websites have the following core features:

• Great looks - customers routinely judge a book by its cover. Your business deserves a clean and creative design that gives the right first impression.
• CMS system - a Content Management System (CMS) lets you easily edit your own website pages using an MS Word like interface. This ensures you have control to keep your own website up to date as your business evolves and changes.
• High speed & reliable - our servers run fast, hosted in the UK and USA near most of your clients. They run in a secured and 24/7 monitored data center. Our hosting plans include regular offsite backups and security audits to help prevent bad things happening.
• Basic SEO - all our website feature "clean URLs" and other features to ensure your site gets as high as possible rankings on Google. We also provide basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) training to help you write your site pages in a way that optimizes your rankings.
• Google Analytics - this great free tool help you track your visitors and optimize your website content for rankings. It also integrates into Google Adwords to help you track the efficiency of your online marketing campaigns.
• Contact form - let users fill out a form to email you. Usually this is the single goal of your website which all your pages should be directed towards
• News/blog - writing a few paragraphs of text each month in a blog-like format helps build confidence from your website visitors and keeps them coming back to read more
• Personalized email - bookings@yourcompany.com looks much more professional than yourcompany2009@gmail.com. The addresses can link to your existing Gmail or Outlook -based system.

For some customers, that's all you'll need! Your site could be up in as little as a week from the time you contact us.

Other customers will want a bit more though. Our personalized service ensures we'll talk you through all the options and help guide you to the right solution for you:

• Shopping cart / online shop - choose between a free open source platform such as Ubercart or osCommerce, or we can build you the bespoke solution you need using either the ASP.NET or PHP platforms
• Take online bookings
  
  • For rental properties, try our Porte Verte Properties product
  • For shuttle/transfer businesses, try our Porte Verte Transport product
  • We can also help integrate another open source solution or build you a bespoke solution.
• Bank integration - let users pay online using Paypal, Google Checkout, or direct to your Credit Agricole, Barclays, or Banque Populaire bank account through your bank's eCommerce solution (ATOS, Paybox, etc).
• Photo galleries
• Involve the community - give your visitors the ability to log in and leave comments or post their own text or images
• Multiple language support - let users select between English, French, German, etc.
• Drupal/Joomla - enhanced CMS systems that allow dynamic features to be build easily
• CMS Made Simple - simple CMS system good for smaller websites
• Site search - powered by the CMS or by Google CSE
• Google Maps
• Event calendars
• Forums
  

Our website portfolio
	EURO-XPRAG This group of scientists needed a new website to promote their new ESF-sponsored pan-European research project. The scientists can easily log into the site to write and modify their own pages as the project progresses. A slick, custom graphic design was created to pull everything together.
	Cham Van This leading shuttle/transfer service provider needed an online booking system integrated to the Credit Agricole Paybox system. The Porte Verte Transport system was integrated into a clean and crisp new custom graphic design and the Drupal content management system was installed so their staff could easily make website modifications for both the French and English sides of the site.
	Alpinetransfers4u.com This growing Chamonix transfer company needed a slick new website in order to support a new internet sales and marketing push. The Porte Verte Transport system was integrated to provide quick quote and booking form features.
	Chamonix Accomodation.com This holiday apartment rental / management company needed a feature-rich website where visitors could browse their properties and make online bookings (using Paypal or credit cards). Porte Verte delivered photo galleries, Google maps, search, and online booking features using the Porte Verte Properties product.
	Rutgers University The Rutgers University psycholinguistics laboratory needed a new website to publish their research papers and promote the lab. A Drupal-based framework was used so that the professors and students can log in to upload publications, photos, and otherwise modify the website.
	Velo 26 Porte Verte delivered this feature rich online shop using the Drupal and Ubercart framework. Distributers can log in to bulk order items at discounted prices. Clients can buy individual items linked with the Paypal credit cart gateway system. The Ubercart stock management, discount, and other add-ons were used for a complete online sales solution.
	Haute Weddings Porte Verte delivered this simple but crisp and effective website to promote the client's new business venture. The client can log in to update the pages themselves using the Simple CMS content management system.
Not yet convinced? In total, Porte Verte staff has been involved in the release of over fifty web site and software development projects, since 1995. If you don't see an example in the above that is similar to your needs, contact us and we can probably show you one. Here are a few more samples: Muster Bar TranscenData Verbier Life Bramble Ski Faction Skis ITI Project View L2C2 Chamonix Ten80