1. We have a site at the moment, but would like to make it more effective. How?

   
 

This is a common question. You may have a site which never seems to be up to date, or is visually unappealing. Or you might want to make your site more interactive and customer-focused. Or you may have a good basic site, but the company who produced it for you may not have the skills or expertise you need to move the site forward. Whatever problems your currrent site has, we can offer the right mix of expertise, experience and ongoing support to move you onto the next and all future phases of development.

   
 

 2. How can I put company data on the Internet?

   
 

Cirioweb has the skills and experience to make this a painless process. We can design a database for you specifically for your web site. If, however, you already have a database that you wish to make available on the Internet, we pride ourselves on our ability to tailor a solution for you. We can design a database architecture and back-office process that allows you to update your internal data and deploy it on the Internet, rather than trying to keep multiple databases in line. Furthermore, since our sites are hosted on Windows NT servers, we can leverage the power of your database using active server pages, providing the end-user with automatically generated, yet visually appealing web pages.

   
 

 3. What are the advantages of database-driven sites?

   
 

Databases have a number of fundamental benefits on the Internet, and are set to represent the future of web development. Ease of updating is the major advantage; rather than hand-coding changes to static HTML pages, updates can be triggered automatically from the database. This means that it is possible to update your own web site quickly and easily with no web design knowledge required. Consistency can also be ensured, since changes are automatically reflected across all affected pages. The database approach can also facilitate a more reliable and controllable search mechanism on web sites, rather than the hit-and-miss free text searches employed on many sites.

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