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With the Steam Multimedia shopping cart system you can be assured that the customers visiting your shopping cart will have a secure and safe area on your website to make their purchases. Whether it is linked to a PayPal system or using a SSL area on your website, personal details are encrypted to high levels of security before being transmitted and as a result will be nigh impossible to get at.

Why does electronic shopping exist? For customers it is not only because of the high level of convenience, but also because of the broader selection; competitive pricing and greater access to information. For organizations it increases their customer value and the building of sustainable capabilities, next to the increased profits.

Once a payment has been accepted, how do you deliver the goods or services?

Some of the benefits of having an ecommerce website are:

24/7 On-line Shopping

Your shop is always open 24/7 come rain or shine and means you don't have to site at your computer watching your website 24/7 as you will be automatically updated of any new sales (most commonly sent to your email), so your website will let you know when there has been any activity.

An ecommerce payment gateway is a separate service from the ecommerce website itself as the payment gateway acts as an intermediary between your shopping cart and the various financial networks involved with the transaction, including your customers account and your merchant account.

Do you know your DNS from your CMS? Cookies from Breadcrumbs? This section will try to answer some of questions you may have regarding web design and terminology used in the development of a web site. Click each topic to learn more.

More and more people each day are using the internet to find a product or service that they need and most of these people will use a search engine such as Google to find the vendor that they are looking for. So you need to make sure that you are on the front page for the right key words for your business.

Things to think about:

SEO

Link building is a good way of driving new people to your website. Not only that, but as you build more links to your website then the top search engines have more chance of finding your website without you having to add yourself to them. Link building is a vital part of SEO

How the top Search engines work

The best search engines work by following links either through your own website so that they can map it out and index your pages or by following links from another website to your own.

SEO

As said in other blogs it is important to get your website into Google. Here is 5 ways to help your website get ranked better.

Tip 1 – Content

Content is the most important part of your website, the more of it the better. Make sure that you are using the proper tags around your content also so that Google can index it better and know what the important areas of your content are, this can help emphasise your keywords also.

SEO

By creating a Website Brief this means that you will fuller understand what you need and are looking for and can let your web designer know exactly what it is you are looking for so that your website is able to achieve the results that you are looking for.

What to think about before starting your Brief:

To get your website up live on the internet there is a few programming languages that are useful to know.

Designer Programs:

  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator

Basic Web Languages:

  • XHTML
  • CSS

Web Programming Languages:

  • PHP
  • ASP
  • JavaScript

Web Databases: