Internet Applications

Internet applications are programs that run on your website to create certain functionality such as shopping carts, forums, image galleries, email forms and newsletters. With [' High Wired '], they're all at your fingertips.

Likely you use some of these every day and the internet would be a pretty dull place without them. Let's discuss a few of the most common internet applications and how they work.

...E-Commerce

Anytime you do some online shopping you're using an internet application. An E-Commerce app lets you display a catalog of your inventory, which you update and maintain via a password protected area of the site. Customers can choose from your products, add them to a shopping cart and checkout. At checkout, everything is taken care of for you. Shipping is calculated, sales tax (if applicable) is added, payment is handled automatically through a credit card gateway, and all you have to do is ship the product. Beautiful!

...Newsletters

Customers are a forgetful breed, so we all know that one key to a successful business is letting your customers know you're still there! Newsletters are a great way to do just that. As users request to be on the mailing list, it adds their email address to a database on your website. Now, every week or month or whenever, you can type up one email and have it go out to everyone on the mailing list. And what's best, you don't pay a dime to send out your newsletters... and who doesn't love cheap advertising?

...Image Galleries

Many times a company has a portfolio of work they would like to show off and an image gallery application makes this a breeze. What a pain it would be if you had to copy your images into different sized files, optimize them for the web, upload them to the web server, and add all of the painstakingly tedious html on to a page to add the images and link everything together. Fortunately an image gallery does all of this for you. In our portfolio you will see a few sites we've built that have image galleries and you can get a good feel for how they work.

So really it doesn't matter what kind of internet application you need, [' High Wired ]' Web Development will make it a reality.