E-Commerce Solutions

Complete online website marketing and e-commerce solutions. No matter what your budget is, we will give you the absolute best solution to accomplish every one of your goals. Ecommerce is a broad term that encompasses more than just posting items for sale on E-Bay. E-commerce is also selling your services and your reputation online in a way that is much more complex than just enabling someone to add it to their "cart". That is why we offer a wide array of solutions for your E-Commerce needs.

Merchant Accounts
If you are selling goods or products online, you will want a secure, reliable merchant account to integrate seamlessly into your website. The fees associated with owning and using a merchant account can sometimes become confusing or frustrating. We can take the guesswork out of selecting the proper merchant account and make recommendations to any to work with your budget.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Having a presence on the web is not enough. Your customers and potential visitors have to be able to find you online. We design your website with usability in mind, and even offer custom search engine optimization services for our clients who want to increase their position in the search engine rankings.

Search Engine Optimization involves making your web pages readable for the search engine crawlers that are used to identify website layout and relevancy to particular search terms. Google, Yahoo and MSN all have spiders or crawlers that try to determine what your website is all about.

jB Online Solutions specializes in increasing traffic to your website by improving your position in the search engine rankings without using any illegal techniques like, i.e., keyword packing, spamming techniques. Our search engine rankings specialists work diligently with you to determine your company's marketing needs. We work with you to make your site content relevant, fresh, and search engine friendly - increasing your search engine rankings. This proves to be the most time proven way to ensure that your site stays in the top of the search engine rankings for the long-term.

Website Maintenance

Website maintenance includes revising, editing, or otherwise changing existing web pages to keep your website up to date. The periodic addition of new web pages is also part of maintenance services. 

Websites are not intended to be static. The value of a practice website is the ability to maintain current information online at a reasonable cost. We assume that you will want to revise some or all of your web pages over time, as well as adding additional web pages according to your business needs. To assist you in maintaining current information online, we offer several options for website maintenance. 

If you believe you will be making regular changes to your website over time, you can save money by purchasing a website maintenance contract. A maintenance contract is for a one year term, and is non-refundable. The monthly charge for maintenance is based on the size of your website at the time the contract is signed. A maintenance contract allows you to update an online newsletter, to highlight different services on a rotating basis, or to promote time sensitive programs, services or workshops.

Under our maintenance contract, you are entitled to make an unlimited number of text revisions to existing web pages. This does not includes redesigning web pages, or adding, deleting or editing graphics on the web pages.
 

Go easy on those "Special Effects"
A logo that depends on fancy special effects is not a solid logo. "Special effects" include drop shadows, bevels, lens flares, reflections, and stylistic filters. We remove these effects to distill the underlying logo concept so that we can better improve it. Only once the logo concept is strong by itself should you experiment with special effects …and even then, only in moderation. Also, since special effects are used as crutches by bad designers, the effects themselves are usually tacky. For some "groovy" perspective, see Microsoft's original logo.

Don't Add, Only Subtract
Every element in a logo design is a potential distraction and every extra detail is one more thing to forget. The most successful logos of the biggest companies are usually one or two words with maybe one simple symbol. Be absolutely ruthless while subtracting from your logo. Leave only the most important elements.

No Photographs
Photographs, pieces of photographs, and bitmapped images like photographs do not belong in a logo. They don't scale and are difficult to recognize, especially when your logo is resized. Replace photographic elements with a symbol equivalent (or remove them completely).

Multiple Versions
Once your logo concept is solid, sometimes you'll need different logo versions for specific uses. For instance, you may need a logo for printing on dark backgrounds, a version that is very small, or a very simple version for photocopy and fax. A strong logo must be flexible.

Legibility
Small print text blurs when the logo is small, decorative fonts are difficult to read, and low contrast colors hide your text. Text should typically be large, use conservative fonts, and have high contrast with its background. Unreadable text is ugly and wasteful.

Scaling and Spacing
People like certain ratios common in nature so use them in your logo to improve its wow gold composition. The most famous natural ratio is the "golden ratio" Phi. (about 1.618) Also, use the typographic scale for to keep your font sizes "in tune." In good design, these natural ratios appear often. But don't rely on intuition; break out those rulers and calculators and verify those ratios. Yes… calculators. See? Math is good for everything. (fact)

Vectors
Vector graphics are shapes, lines, and colors that can be mathematically defined. A vector master-copy of your logo is important, especially for printing and for maintaining the integrity of your logo. A logo only saved as a bitmap (or worse, only as physical copy) like a jpg or tiff can't be enlarged, loses data when shrunk, and usually prints poorly. What looks good on a computer screen rarely looks good in print.