Database Design and Web Application Development

Whatever business you're in, there's data to be kept track of for administrative purposes and often data that can be mined to discover repeat business. If you have an online shop, the details of who bought what will be stored in a database which will contain what you need to fulfill your orders.

As there's most likely no other business exactly like yours, a custom database application created to meet your specific requirements is what you need.

The most important considerations when considering a database application for your business are:

• What do you want to keep data on? Customers? Sales?
• What data items do you want to store for any of the above? Name? Address? Rating?
• Expanding on the above, what types of data will each item be? Text? Numbers? Image file? Sound file?
• How do you plan to get the data into your database?
• What do you need in terms of safe and secure storage of your data?
• Have you thought about controlling access to your data?
• Have you thought about rights for different users? Who can make changes to, add to or remove from your data?
• How do you want to use this data? You'll need reports showing, for example, all customers with outstanding accounts of more than $10 for more than 30 days

There is no doubt, if you have any amount of data a database application designed to meet your needs can be extremely useful in most businesses. Click on the "Get Information" button to get information relevant to your specific case.

In short: database and database application design and creation.

• design and create your database
  • All databases are designed to at least Boyce-Codd third normal form
  • All relationships are enforced - we do things right
  • Your database can handle many users at the same time
• design and create the software application you need to interact with your database
  • Access control and user authorisation for different actions included, if needed
  • Your database can be accessible to anyone on the Internet, subject to the above
  • Your database can be accessible to anyone on an office network, subject to access control and authorisation
  • This application can handle many users at the same time
  • This application can have reports, if needed, like invoices and many more
• if you want something like an online shop, advise you on a few points that will make your shop more visible on the Internet
• we may be able to make changes to an existing database or online application - contact us and let's see.

Whether you want to sell physical products that have to be delivered, services or documents in the form of a download - no problem, we can do it for you. The ways you interact with your shop application is tailored to what you want; sales reports, loading of new items, you name it.

Payment is easily taken care of by third party online payment processors, like PayPal or DirectOne. You don't even need a secure connection or handle credit card details - the money just turns up in your bank account. It's that simple.

Here's an example of an Online Shop which you can try out.

If you're shopping for an online shop, contact us and let's start building.

Database Applications can find someone to design your website while doing the database work on which your website relies.

Alternatively, you can choose a css template from among the many available ones on the web and Database Applications can use that. They are available from free to about from $20 to costing in the thousands if you want sole use of the template. Here is a link to a site with some free css templates and many cheap ones. You can replace the logos with your logo and the images with your images of similar size and style.