Increasingly, the Internet is becoming more relevant to business. As a resource for information, as a method of performing online ordering and supply, as a way to sell a service or a product or simply as a way to participate in the great efficiencies of Email as a communications medium, businesses are getting connected in great numbers.
- Website Design & Development:
Morningside's web publishing services provide a unique solution for business services. As well as creating high quality "pages" for your business, Morningside offers, through its South Coast Visitors Guide and particularly, its Local Business & Community Directories the only local context in which your business can be promoted. For businesses whose clients are mostly drawn from local and regional sources, the Morningside sites which promote our towns and region, provide the ideal platform for local businesses, however small, to be promoted to the Internet.
For example, if an Internet user is looking for an electrician in the Ulladulla area, we feel that it is inappropriate for that user to have to go to some American search engine to satisfy that request. Rather, we believe that the user will first seek out a website that deals with Ulladulla and then look for "Electricians" within that site. This is precisely how the Morningside "OnLine" websites work. The communities themselves are promoted to the Net and local businesses obtain derivative benefit through their links under the appropriate business categories in the community website.
- Commercial Websites (Selling online):
Morningside offers the facilities of "cgi-programming", necessary to undertake direct, on line commerce on the Net. Some sites try to obtain credit card information which is then sent to the business by way of email. This is a very unsecure method and is likely to be avoided by knowledgable users. The "cgi-programming" approach uses programs residing on the "server" computer to receive orders in a summary form, direct from "Forms" on the web page. Although still not 100% secure (and we are still waiting for secure solutions in Australia), these cgi-scripts are much more acceptable to users than any email alternative.
You can see our cgi "shopping" scripts in action, accepting online transactions here or here.
The growth and use of the Internet for business (E-Commerce) is unstoppable. Almost all computer manufacturers, software developers and general businesses of all kinds are making massive investments in the Internet. Its establishment as a fundamental tool for doing business in the 21st century seems inevitable. Now is the time for you to make your first steps so that you will not be left behind as the Internet juggernaut sweeps rural Australia as it is already doing in the cities.
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