Welcome to Better Business Web Design!
We started this unique program because the current options for building business websites are either too easy to hack (Wordpress) – too complex to manage (Magento) – or too expensive for most small business owners to afford (Shopify). They all involve vendor lock in and many saddle small business owners with huge hidden fees.
Our goal is to change the direction of Ecommerce by providing you with a better way to build your business website.
Business websites are different from personal websites because business websites include a database which contains important financial information. Insecure business websites are a prime target of hackers who use flaws in your business website to gain access to your business database, bank records and financial information. We don’t just help you build a professional looking business website, we help you avoid business-killing Ransomware attacks!
Our mission is to help you create your own successful online business using a new generation of free open source web building tools. These free tools include Joomla 4 and Phoca Cart. Open source means the source code, or software, is free and can be shared by anyone with anyone for any purpose. Open source is like a library...free and open knowledge shared with the community for the common good. No patents, no hassles, no barriers, no limits!
We are not your traditional web consulting firm…
The traditional system for commercial businesses has been to hire a staff of consultants to build and run their websites. This system of farming out your website to computer programmers works well for larger corporations that have the funds to hire a full time technology staff.
But this traditional top down approach does not work well for small business owners and organizations who cannot afford to hire consultants. Even the simplest of changes to your online business requires hiring a consultant familiar with computer programming for a fee of hundreds to thousands of dollars. If you want to send your customers a newsletter, that is another thousand dollars per year. If you want to set up a virtual shopping cart, that is another thousand dollars. If you want to promote a new line of products or a new set of services, that is another thousand dollars. Even after spending thousands of dollars, business owners are too often left with a website they cannot control and cannot use to grow their business.
We are a different kind of web consulting firm. We work with you to guide you on a new and better path. We help you build your own business website where you have full control over the appearance, content and function of your website without computer programming – simply by clicking on a series of buttons!
Here are 12 ways we help you build a better business website.
#1 Real Business Website Experience…
Our unique business website building process was created by David Spring M. Ed. David built one of the world’s first business websites in 1994 – one year before the start of Amazon. Since then, David has trained thousands of business owners how to build their own secure interact business websites. David is also an experienced teacher with a Masters Degree in Education and more than 20 years of experience teaching college level technology courses. With our unique step by step process, you get more than just a pretty website with an About Us page. We help you build a REAL business website! LEARN MORE…
#2 Real Computer Security…
We know that website security begins with computer security. We also know that hackers love to attack business websites. The only way to avoid being a victim of Windows Ransomware is to use a Linux computer to build and run your business website. We therefore give you a Linux “computer on a stick” – or help you reflash any computer to Linux – or help you purchase a secure Linux computer. We then provide you with a free course in using Linux. People are surprised to learn that Linux is actually much easier than Windows! LEARN MORE…
#3 Real Business Website Security…
Every year millions of business websites are hacked – costing business owners billions of dollars. If you have a hacked website and want to recover it, or want to avoid having a hacked site in the first place, we can show you how to build a truly secure business website. Real website security requires a secure foundation. This is why we use Joomla rather than Wordpress as the foundation for our business websites. Joomla is much more secure than Wordpress. But we do not stop there. We add many additional security tools to protect your business website. We also help you learn how to use Joomla. LEARN MORE…
#4 Real Business Website Shopping Carts…
Whether your business is selling products or services, you will need to display your products and services in a way that makes it easier for customers to buy them. We provide you with one of the world’s easiest, most secure and most powerful shopping cart tools – and we provide you with free training on how to use it. LEARN MORE…
#5 Real Business Payment Gateways…
Too many online payment processors charge huge and often hidden fees – in addition to providing no real customer service. We will help you avoid this online payment nightmare by helping you set up a secure, inexpensive, easy to use payment gateway. LEARN MORE…
#6 Infinitely expandable...
Add as many products as you want, from as many manufacturers as you want, and place them in as many categories as you want. Common categories include downloadable virtual products, books, videos, clothing, services, subscription memberships and anything else you can think of. Everything, including product images stay nicely organized into sortable tables. While most online stores turn into an ugly mess over time, we help you build a business website that organize products and images into easy to understand tables organized by categories to help you keep track of thousands of products, product images and web pages. You can assign products not only by descriptive categories, but also by brands and/or tag categories. For example, you can display a page for all Sale Items or all Holiday Special items. LEARN MORE…
#7 Infinitely adaptable...
With each product, you have the ability to assign prices, tax rules, currencies, short and long descriptions, normal and thumbnail images, and minimum, maximum and current stock levels. You can also add attributes to any group of products such as sizes and colors for clothing. You can help your customers better understand the benefits of your most unique and important products by creating a Longer Description, List of Features, Product YouTube video, Specifications, Reviews and Related Products all of which will appear in a Tabbed section below the Product on the Product page. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a promotional video for each of your product is worth a million words! LEARN MORE…
#8 Complete Order Tracking System...
with automatic billing and a complete history of the status of each order…so that you (and your customer) can tell what is happening with any given order with just the click of a button. Optional automatic confirmation emails keep your customers informed at every point of the process, from the time the product is ordered to the time it is shipped. Invoices and receipts can be attached to emails as custom PDF documents. LEARN MORE…
#9 Automatic Inventory Control…
An important key to the long term success of any business is inventory control. We provide you with an adjustable workflow tied to both vendor and customer orders. This workflow automatically increases inventory each time a product enters your system and automatically reduces the inventory each time a product is sold. You can even automatically notify customers when a product is back in stock! LEARN MORE…
#10 Business Email Newsletters…
Two problems with most business email newsletter tools are that someone else controls your customer email database and you wind up paying huge monthly fees just to stay in touch with your customers. We provide you with afree integrated email newsletter tool that allows you to keep direct control over your customer database. Equally important, you also retain full control over the appearance and timing of your customer newsletters…giving you complete freedom to send customers newsletters about their purchases and coming sales. LEARN MORE…
#11 Full Control over your website, your data and your future…
Many business owners make the mistake of handing over control of their business website to someone else. We show you how to create your own online store. Creating your own online store means no vendor or developer lock in. You retain complete control over every aspect of your online business and have the ability to change any aspect of your online store at any time. You retain complete control over your business and business database. Our goal is to help you learn how to control the content, appearance and function of your business website so you can have greater control over the success of your online business. LEARN MORE…
#12 Dramatically Lower Long Term Costs…
Many business website building tools are loaded with huge hidden long term monthly and annual fees costing thousands of dollars per year. Sadly, the Ecommerce world is now burdened with millions of hacked Wordpress websites and hundreds of thousands of very expensive Shopify sites. We offer you a different option. You do not have to choose between an insecure Wordpress site or a over-priced Shopify site. If you are willing to put in some time and effort, you can have an online store that is both inexpensive and extremely secure. The future of Ecommerce is in your hands. LEARN MORE…
Are you ready to take your online business to the next level?
Let us help you build a better business website. Fill out our Ask Us a Question form and we will schedule a time to answer your questions and review your goals. The appointment is free and the information is priceless!