Your website is the face of your company. It is your first impression, and, in many cases, a primary avenue via which current and prospective customers interface with your brand. It is critical, therefore, that your website is a living, breathing entity, impressing and engaging your audience at every turn. Today, the tools and methods you use for managing your corporate website have a profound impact on the success of your site and, subsequently, your business, so you need to make sure you are taking the right steps.

At Silverscape, we keep a close eye on the results of our website (and our client sites) and we love to teach others how to read the Ouija Board of Google Analytics. It’s certainly not breaking news that a website is a key part of any successful business today. What does tend to be overlooked is how much information is available to monitoring the success or weaknesses of your company’s website.

From last-minute Christmas shopping on amazon.com to working on design for DRIFIRE's webstore, our 2009 was chock-full of e-commerce. Here’s a rundown of the five most interesting and innovative ecomm site features of '09, from both inside the studio and out.