Ecommerce Websites

Ecommerce Websites is a website either owned by a co-corporation or small Business who is interested in selling
products and services online.  These types of website’s are both designed and built using HTML technology or using a Database to display content and products.

There are many factors to take into account when you’re considering building an ecommerce website which includes the technology that will be used to build a website and whether to use a database.

When using a database the most popular combos used are either PHP and mysql or ASP and mssql.

PHP is an open source scripting language that drives the database and mysql is an open source database that stores data. Both are very popular amongst Business’ and programmers. ASP (Active Server Page) and mssql (A solid performing database) are both Microsoft products. To use the Microsoft products your website needs to be hosted on a Windows
NT based server.

Once you have your website up and running you will need to create a shopping cart and be able to accept credit cards.

There are numerous open source free to use shopping carts. It might be an idea to approach your Bank for a credit card merchant account which will enable you to take both phone orders and online orders.

If this fails you can always open a merchant account with World Pay which provides you with your own credit card merchant account.

One important step is to make sure that you optimise your website for Search Engines and you can do this by applying the correct keywords.

One other way to build ecommerce websites is to hire a programmer that can do the whole process for you efficiently and within your set time frame. Programmers charge different prices but it might be worth placing your requirement on scriptlance.com where programmers are able to bid for your project.