Newtek Launches E-Commerce Platform for to Small Businesses

Newtek Business Services, Inc. (www.newtekbusinessservices.com), a provider of business services and financial products to the small to medium-sized business market, today announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc., it has introduced a new service, CTSiteCenter, which provides a powerful and easy-to-use site builder, site editor and online file manager free to all CrystalTech customers.

CTSiteCenter is one of several new services offered by CrystalTech and is yet another example of the company's commitment to helping individuals and small businesses get online quickly and cost-effectively.

CTSiteCenter gives CrystalTech customers the ability to create and maintain their websites without needing to know HTML or the hassles of finding a webmaster. With a variety of pre-designed templates, users are able to point-and-click to build a professional-looking website, all within their web browser.

Already regarded as one of the leading web hosts in the industry, CrystalTech is fast becoming a leader in the small to medium-sized business market by providing merchant account and payment gateway services, low-cost domain name registrations and a shopping cart solution that the company is planning to make available in the near future.

"One advantage CTSiteCenter has over similar products is that, not only are you able to maintain existing sites with the integrated WYSIWYG editor, you can create a brand new website from scratch," said Tim Uzzanti, President and CEO of CrystalTech.

"Another advantage is that no database back-end is required. CTSiteCenter publishes in plain HTML which bypasses the issues other online site builders have with creating URLs that are not necessarily search engine friendly.