Growing demand for e-commerce functionality.UK web designers are increasingly required to include ecommerce See e-commerce. functionality in the sites they build for clients, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest independent research published by Actinic actinic /ac·tin·ic/ (ak-tin´ik) producing chemical action; said of rays of light beyond the violet end of the spectrum. ac·tin·ic adj. . At the same time, the average price that web designers are charging for building an online store is falling. The report is based on an independent survey by pfa Research among a random sample of 76 web design companies. A copy of the report is downloadable from www.actinic.co.uk/does/Actinic Web Design Report-2004.pdf. Comment: "The proportion of websites enabled for online selling has really shot up compared with last year". "As the market both gets bigger and more competitive, it is important for designers to keep costs down and deployment speed up. Packaged solutions are the future here, and we are working hard on moving our products forward to get ahead of this particular game". Chris Lande of Northstar Design says, 'With the growing pressure on web designers to deliver more for less I foresee fore·see tr.v. fore·saw , fore·seen , fore·see·ing, fore·sees To see or know beforehand: foresaw the rapid increase in unemployment. continued growth in the use of packaged solutions, in order to maximise time and cost efficiencies.' Summary of the findings * Actinic's report revealed that between 2003 and 2004, the percentage of sites built by web designers that included ecommerce functionality rose from 17% to 23%. * In the same period, the average price charged by a web designer to build an online store for a client decreased from 3825 [pounds sterling] in 2003, to 2293 [pounds sterling] in 2004. * This downward pressure on pricing may be related to a move towards in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. development on the part of medium-sized companies, with smaller businesses becoming increasingly important to web designers. The proportion of web designers' clients having between 50 and 99 employees fell by more than a half across the board. * While Microsoft.Net is still the single preferred server technology for most web designers building online stores, its popularity has declined by 14% since last year, to 34%. Taken together, UNIX-based operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. including Linux overtook o·ver·took v. Past tense of overtake. Microsoft-based systems as the ecommerce platform of choice among web designer, rising to 40%. * Macromedia Dreamweaver remains the most popular site-building tool, used by over 80% of web designers. www.actinic.co.uk |
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