Some website designers and/or agencies try to make it sound like the kind of website that you get with them, is the same kind that you get with Merkados™. If you are in search of a developer, the best recommendation is to compare Apples-to-Apples when it comes to the features, functionality and future upgrading capabilities of your website.
In terms of features, Merkados offers a comprehensive array of options that will deliver a powerful web property. That property, will continue to be relevant and competitive in your industry over an extended period of time.
Sooner or later, you will have to update your websites; new technologies arise and new standards are implemented. Instead of redesigning your website's look-and-feel, structure and content every time, by effectively separating them, you can update them at intervals. That way, your website can continue to take advantage of improvements in technology while keeping your upgrading cost down.
Take a look at some of our Website features and remember to compare Apples-to-Apples. Once you are ready, please feel free to contact Merkados for a free consultation about your particular project.
| Website Features | Merkados™ Basic Package | Some other Agencies in the Triangle |
|---|---|---|
| Code Renders in Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) | Yes | Yes |
| Full 100% custom and marketing-driven design. Your design is unique and copyrighted. | Yes | No |
| Create, Update and Delete your content without the need of a webmaster. Capacity to create pages and posts 24/7. | Yes | No |
| Dynamic PHP driven site instead of Static HTML pages or templates. | Yes | No |
| Multi-user Blog Section | Yes | No |
| Form-to-Email Script with built-in security | Yes | No |
| Admin Platform with beautiful user interface using JQuery. | Yes | No |
| Multiple user platform with multiple permission options for each user (administrators, editors, writers, etc). Unlimited number of users. | Yes | No |
| Flexible navigation. Drag and Drop Functionality to change your menus. | Yes | No |
| Add photos from your computer with a click of a button. The website automatically resizes your images for added efficiency. | Yes | No |
| Easy WYSIWYG editor for each page. Add bold, italics and other formatting to your pages with ease. | Yes | No |
| Listing of all the pages in your site organized by category for easy management. | Yes | No |
| One hour full one-on-one website management training in the Merkados office conference room. | Yes | No |
| Cross-browser compatible. IE7 and up, Firefox 2 and up, Safari 3 and up. Apple© Ipad™ compatible*. | Yes | No |
| Fully separated Markup, Content and Styles. Change only what you need in the future. When is time to redesign your site only change the look and feel while preserving your structure. | Yes | No |
| 30 day - 100% satisfaction guarantee. | Yes | No |
| Search Engine Friendly Features | Merkados™ Basic Package | Some other Agencies in the Triangle |
| Search engine friendly, Hand-Coded markup and stylesheets. | Yes | No |
| Search engine friendly URLs. | Yes | No |
| 301 Canonical Server Redirections. | Yes | No |
| Automatic RSS feed publishing. Push your content directly to people using an RSS reader like Google Reader. | Yes | No |
| 100% W3C XHTML standard specification compliance. | Yes | No |
| Online Marketing and Analytics Features | Merkados™ Basic Package | Some other Agencies in the Triangle |
| Analytics installation included. Gain advanced marketing intelligence about your visitors such as visitation patterns, keywords driving traffic to your site, search engine traffic, visitor geographic location, conversion funnel review and much more. | Yes | No |
| Revision system for content. Create pages and revise them later multiple times as needed. | Yes | No |
| Social Features | Merkados™ Basic Package | Some other Agencies in the Triangle |
| Password retrieval for any account through email procedure directly from site. | Yes | No |
| One-click sharing of content, posts and pages with Facebook, Twitter and other social networking platforms. | Yes | No |
| Dozens of available plugins. Extensions allow your website to add functionality as needed and grow as your audience grows. | Yes | No |
| * Some video components in the site may use Flash depending on the configuration of the final client's site, in these cases, the rendering for Ipad users degrades gracefully and shows all other portions of the site. | ||
Alex was great at explaining the technical terms into more everyday terminology. The website design was fresh and appealing to the ever changing internet world and he was able to captivate the new look we wanted for the website and company.
He is very trustworthy and straightforward which is important when working on a detail intensive project.
Amy Christenbury - Swank Chiropractic
