The first question you have to answer is "What shall my web site be usefull for?" Very often, your web site will be, depending on your needs and its complexity, a mix of the following site types:

• Showroom / institutional sites:: the goal with these sites is to show who you are and what you can provide to your potential customers. A wide range of modules (news, FAQs, photo galeries, forums, documentation downloads, guest book, newsletters, RSS streams, advertising banners, partner site links, ...) allow you to tune your site as needed. If you have specific requirements, we can develop dedicated modules.
  
  
• E-commerce sites: a complete solution to manage your product catalogs, product details (their characteristics can be used as search criterias), shipping methods, multiple currencies, multiple tax rates depending on shipping countries and products, payment methods (check, credit card, PayPal, ...), customer accounts (identity, shipping address, invoicing address, orders history, ...), shopping cart, new orders and their status progress (pending, paid, shipped, cancelled, refounded, ...), ...
  
  
• Documents sharing: an intranet/extranet plateform to manage users, user groups  (employees, contractors, customers, ...), user access rights, document upload / downloads, email alarms to be warned when documents are modified, ...
  
  
• Enterprise management: a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) intranet/extranet plateform to manage your prospects, your quotes, your orders and your invoices, to make some statistics analysis, ...
  
  
• Portals: usefull when you want to make a synergy over several sites.