Our developers pride themselves in being proficient in a number of development languages including HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, Silverlight & ASP.NET. Knowing these development languages means very little but it does mean we are not limited in the development tools we make use of when creating the solution you’re after.

CMS based websites offer the administrator of the website a number of easy-to-use features that enable updates to the website without the need for much understanding of web development. A CMS provides the administrator the following benefits:

• WYSIWYG Editor
• Image & Video Uploader
• Fully Searchable Keywords Site-wide
• Automatic Link Creation
• Create Multiple Users
• Unlimited Pages

The growing popularity of online shopping is an exciting opportunity for every business. Our capacity to develop an online store for your product or service means that you are open for business 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Development and implementation of a full product database linked to a shopping cart that stores the products until a customer wishes to check out. With the ability to track sales on your website our E Commerce solution will help you track sales trends and tailor your offering for maximum sales return and customer retention.

The store can also be handled with a CMS providing administrators the ability to fully manage the content via:

• WYSIWYG Editor
• Product Price
• Product Image
• Product Code
• Unlimited Products
• Additional Options (Shipping, Colour)

Our news and blog management platform provides you the opportunity to include a news or blog section to your existing website. A custom written solution offers clients a login to an administrative back-end that allows the administrator of the website to post news with a featured image, date, time and headline.

Development of a CMS based news or blog system allows the administrator access to:

• WYSIWYG Editor
• News Categories
• Featured Images
• News Archives
• Date
• Keywords (Tags)

A striking visual enhancement to any website, a gallery of your latest events or a portfolio showcasing your best work or products.

Our CMS driven gallery and portfolio solutions offer the website administrator access to:

• WYSIWYG Editor
• Title
• Description
• Thumbnail & Full Image Options
• Video Linking
• Portfolio Categories
• Keywords (Tags)

The ideal solution for handling the planning and execution of an event. The event planning & management system ensures the smooth planning and running of your events. An optional sign-up for attendees lets you grow your database for future invites.

A CMS driven product that offers the administrator of the website access to:

• WYSIWYG Editor
• Calendar
• Seating Options
• Title
• Description
• Contact Person
• Date
• Location with Google Maps
• Image or Video Attachments

We provide a wide variety of hosting options to suit your requirements. We offer local and international servers and are always pushing to increase our hosting capacity when necessary.

Our clients websites are assured 100% uptime, we are so sure of ourselves we will give you 1 day free hosting for every hour (or part thereof) your website is down and our support staff are available to call 07:30 – 18:00 daily!

When traditional web hosting won’t cut it and dedicated servers won’t scale fast enough, Virtual Private Servers from DreamHost are an ideal solution. Available in both specialized MySQL and general-use configurations.

Virtual Private Servers are a premium hosting solution designed from the ground-up to give you ultimate control over just how many server resources you use – and just how much you pay for them. We’ve harnessed the power of Linux-VServer to give you your own “private server”, thereby protecting your CPU and RAM from all other users for the ultimate in stability.

Our dedicated server hosting provide the use of an exclusive, private server. Advantages to dedicated servers include increased reliabiltity from being located in data centers with redundant power sources and HVAC systems, as well as less overhead and a larger return on investment.

Domain registration is the first step in getting your business online. Our domain registration process intergrates seamlessly with our hosting packages and development strategies, all in a convenient one stop package, now thats service.

Not ready to host a website yet? No problem, you can easily add hosting options at any stage. You can reserve your domain name today, or pay just for the email service at @yourdomainname.co.za.

We facilitate domain registrations for all major domain types – .com, .co.za, .org etc.

Having a website with low amounts of traffic is fruitless for your business, SEO is key to drive customers to your site. Search Engine Optimisation ensures your website is visible on natural searches done using keywords that are relevent by your target market.

Apex Multimedia provides intelligent, effective SEO solutions custom made to suit your target market and specific industry requirements. SEO is particularly important for new websites and for websites that are being rebuilt. We look through all the content and derive keywords that will help your site outrank your competition and produce the ROI (Return on Investment) you are looking for.

SEO is an on-going, dynamic process that requires constant work, strategy and development to ensure maximum results, contact us today for a FREE SEO evaluation.

PPC advertising is a great way to add value to your online presence and to increase your visibility on many popular search engines and social networks. PPC advertising allows you to create an ad, that is displayed for free and only charged for once clicked on, with the ability to add budget limitations to these ads PPC is the ideal way to create high yield, relevant traffic to your website.

The most popular forms of PPC advertising are:

Google PPC

Google Adwords allow you place your adverts in many formats including: text, images, flash or video which is displayed on relevant Google search result pages as wella s on Google partner pages (Youtube, Gmail, Google Maps, etc.)

Facebook PPC

The Facebook ad system is similar to Google but it targets your market according to demographics (age, location, sex, interests, personal info) opposed to a keyword, meaning you can target exactly who you want, when you want to. With the ability to link to your website directly, a Facebook profile is not required to market through the social platform.

The core component to most eMarketing campaigns is email marketing. Its highly targeted, measurable nature allows Apex to measure its effectiveness and build on a strategy that works for you. As part of you online branding efforts, we can create a mail campaign that is fresh, slick and functional.

Email marketing can communicate a variety of messages to new, existing and future clients. We’ll create newsletter that give customers useful, relevant information and create sales-driven publications that advertise your latest product, service or special promotion.

Apex encourage an ever-expanding database by creating a call-to-action style “signup” on your website, digital marketing channels and social media platforms so you can reach more people, more often. We can track which email addresses opened the mail, who forwarded the mail, who unsubscribed, if links were clicked and which ones. These stats help us analyse and refine your offering, continually driving traffic to your website as well as creating brand awareness for your off-line offerings.

One of the quickest ways to grow your online presence is through the correct use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Our professional consulting and strategy development for social media optimisation ensures maximum return on investment and rapid, high yield feedback. The aim of SMO is to personalize the brand by meeting consumers where they are most comfortable and becoming a brand that is easily consumed.

Once our team have analysed your online goals, we are able to create custom landing pages and applications for various social media platforms. Apex can also manage, update and monitor the conversion rate of posts, promotions and specials on these social networks.

Social media efforts are also a great way to boost the SEO rating of your website by inserting feeds from various networks,you will be adding new “content” to your website as well as increasing the number of inbound links to your website. Social media also helps us to gain insight into your target market and interact with them, on their terms, seeing which parts of your SMO are working and which aren’t.

The ability to measure digital marketing is the single greatest advantage it has over conventional marketing. Using analytic technology we are able to track every aspect of your website including:

• Which pages are viewed the most
• How long are visitors staying
• What browsers they are using
• What internet connection speed they are using
• and so much more…

These statistics allow us to see who your target market really is and what they want from you, transforming not only your website, but your entire business into a more profitable entity.Once we have analysed the numbers we can consult and advise on which are the best channels for you to market your brand online, ensuring you get the maximum ROI (Return on Investment).

We can install analytics tracking code into any website and use the information to advise you in which direction to head with your online marketing campaigns.

The world consumes more and more of the web daily, a solid strategy and reputation are imperative in succeeding online. Online Reputation Management (ORM) is fast becoming a requirement for any online venture as having a static, “brochure-like” website becomes obsolete. A dynamic website that enables users to change the way the consume your brand and the way you respond can grow your bottom line and help grow your visibility on and off the web.

We find and analyse mentions of your brand online and find ways to engage with your market on a personal, relevant level. Acting on both positive and negative mentions about your brand ensures that you will improve your PR and maintain a higher level of positive feedback on the web, increasing user trust and loyalty.

We use a close-knit consulting style when dealing with clients regarding marketing strategy and implementation. The synergy between the client and our team is what ensures a successful, measurable result. We believe its humans that make business work and place unparalleled importance on staying in touch and meeting regularly, making sure we are working towards the results you require.

Apex Multimedia offers clients a consulting service for all aspects of their online management, with objective views that are both concise and result driven. We analyse your current marketing efforts and evaluate them to pin-point which are working and which aren’t. Using this information we can provide a solution that fits your brand and ensures your strengths are highlighted and develop strategies to improve your weaknesses.

Our consultants are both professional and personal when dealing with all aspects of your brand, and can be used to assess your online status, provide solutions and implement those solutions or let your preferred supplier carry out the proposed strategy.