Its getting more and more important for companies to have an online presence. Consider these facts:

• Online trading volumes have increased 4000% since 1991.
• Online trading value has increased 20 fold since 1991.
• Over half of all stocks traded are now done online.
• In November 1994 music retails outlets had to drop their prices to compete with online music retailers.

Whether you want to trade online or provide information and services online there has never been a better time to have an online presence.

You should, however consider the implications of having a bad web presence. A slow website, a badly designed website or worse still a website that doesn't work, can't be navigated around or looks amateurish will negatively impact your business. An recent IBM commissioned study found that companies with ill equipped and/or badly designed sites were giving the wrong impression to their customers, and the study indicated it is better to have no online presence than to have a bad one. That's where we come in.