Need some help

[bigwater]

I need some help with website development. I've got a online startup going on that is moderately complicated. I had to fire my last developer due to utter failure to accomplish the tasks required. I spent over a month with that company and they totally failed to perform.

Basically, what I need is four elements.

1: A vibrant, eye catching website that will lure people to the site and keep them there.

2: An order entry system that is simple and easy to navigate... drop down boxes for custom specifications, each one based on a database sort of selections of the previous one.

3: A robust shopping cart, capable of handling stand alone credit cards through an SSL layer, as well as handling punch throughs to all of the 3rd party processors like paypal, etc.

4: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so that it lands on the top of all of the normal searches like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

Please, if you have somebody that you have personaly dealt with that can utterly deliver this sort of service without fail... please let me know. I'm asking that you not do searches on the internet and offer suggestions based on reviews you find from a google search... I want real life feedback from companies you've dealt with. Please tell me how complicated your experience was with the company, how satisfied you were with their performance, and whether or not you lost any hair in the process.

[AndyW]

Sorry Ron, I use a site builder programme that takes the guess work out of a majority of what you ask, have the ability to add sales pages if I wanted, a lot of the say google rankings seems to come at a cost, I had a voucher that basically offered google adds for a certain amount of time. Other ways is to embed every term you can think of on every page of the site, so that it is caught by everything that crawls, another thing is regular updates, so when google caches the information, when search's are carried out it can add what it sees as the newest information first, until traffic is generated in numbers, also the site link everywhere, as each site is cached the name appears all go towards rankings.

[sharonsstudio]

Sorry Ron. you know me, All I know how to do is find stuff on here not the tech side of it..
but I use go Daddy not the best out there.. but simple

[bigwater]

Well the canned packages don't seem to work for me. Joomla, Wordpress, etc. just cannot be made to work. I'm looking for a custom solution, and have budgeted a significant amount of money to accomplish this. If it's done right, the development costs will be paid back within six months. I need a nuts and bolts developer that can put a professional e-commerce site together from scratch. I was just hoping maybe somebody here had gone through this before. I've got feelers out on a bunch of sites though, so maybe something will pop up for me.

[air_fx]

I wish I could help, but I can bearly take care of my old free website with Angelfire.....lol. And to top it off I'm now thinking I need to build some sort of mobile frendly site....Dunno how big that can of worms is gonna be yet.....I wish I could afford to pay someone to all these things for me,but the budget for that just doesn't exsist.....Good luck to you Ron.