Web Design & E-commerce Store Development Services

We offer a full array of web design, web development, and e-commerce store development solutions to meet your Internet marketing needs. Our solutions and approaches include Static HTML sites, content management systems including WordPress & HubSpot, as well as full B2C & B2B e-commerce solutions from vendors including eBay’s ProStores.  Before you pick your solution, let us help you understand the training, ongoing maintenance, advantages, disadvantages, and return on investment considerations of all the solutions.

HTML/CSS Static Websites

Static HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is code written on a page that physically exsist on a server, unlike database driven HTML in which the content is contained inside of a database. Most of the earliest websites were written using static HTML. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language used to define the look and formatting of a website/page. Many websites use CSS as it is easy to manage the look and feel of the entire site from one CSS file. Static based websites are the traditional means in which websites were built starting in the 1990s. Since Adobe Dreamweaver is the preferred tool used to develop static websites, you can train your employees through Adobe Certified Expert: Dreamweaver training and certification program. While static sites have the advantage of being highly customizable, their popularity is waning as more robust and mature CMS platforms such as WordPress emerge.

WordPress Content Management System

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. While open source based, WordPress is commercial supported by numerous hosting companies such as Go Daddy. The ForwardM.com website is run on WordPress with a custom StudioPress template, as well as our Houston Internet Marketing Forum site and Houston Website Builder Forum community website. We believe that WordPress is the leading CMS in North America.

Drupal Content Management System

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is open source and has a wide and varied community of users and developers, from professional agencies to individuals, the users of drupal are able to develop a wide range of sites, from blogs to peer to peer sites.

Joomla Content Management System

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

HubSpot Content Management System

HubSpot is a leading enterprise-targeted content management system (CMS) who’s strengths and main focus are blogging, RSS content feeds, landing pages, social media integration, and integrated analytics. HubSpot can serve to power only your blog or also your entire content-based website. Forward Marketing is a HubSpot Certified Partner with team members who are HubSpot Certified Professionals.

ProStores E-commerce Platform

ProStores, an eBay Company, enables small- and medium-sized businesses to sell products and services online.  ProStores provide merchants everything needed to set up, design, and manage a customizable virtual storefront at their own Internet domain. As an eBay subsidiary, ProStores has both PayPal and eBay Stores support built directly into the product, as well as search engine optimization features. We believe that ProStores is the leading e-commerce solution in North America.

Magento E-commerce Platform

Similar to ProStores, Magneto is a robust and e-commerce platform. However, it is an open-source application with a large community of third party developers or supporting companies, similar to WordPress. Magneto also offers mobile commerce solutions.

osCommerce E-commerce Platform

osCommerce is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License. While it is highly customizable, you basically need your own software programming team to develop the solution from scrap as well as maintain it. As an open-source solutions, osCommerce is supported by a community of third-party developers who offer add-ons or custom code. We believe this solutions should be reserved only for companies that truly want to be involved in ongoing software development as a means to drive their e-commerce initiatives.

CS Cart E-commerce Server Software

CS Cart is a secure and full-featured online shopping cart software solution. It has a complete set of powerful e-commerce options to create your own online store along with static content pages. In essence, it is an e-commerce solutions with additional content management system features. You run the server application on your own servers, as well as the desktop software for your employees who manage the store. CS Cart is a product and service of Simbirks Technologies, Ltd. which is based in Ulyanovsk, Russia.

X-Cart Pro E-commerce Server Software

Similary to CS Cart, X-Cart is a secure and full-featured online shopping cart software solutions. It allows different suppliers (providers) to sell products and services in one check-out session to customers directly. The software offers unlimited provider accounts, joint catalog, shopping cart, individual backends for each provider trading in the mall. X-Cart Pro also has all advantages of X-Cart Gold. X-Cart is a product and service of Qualiteam, which is based in Ulyanovsk, Russia

Website Design Services

Forward Marketing provides Web Design services  for all types of companies . If you have further questions, please use their Contact Us page or call at 713-449-2000.