E-Commerce Design and Development

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Increase your sales on the internet

E-commerce (electronic commerce or EC) is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. In practice, this term and a newer term, e-business is often used interchangeably for online retail sales. A good e-commerce website design is the most important factor in achieving maximum efficiency in selling your products online.

• You need a website that is designed well
• Secure Server
• High speed hosting

Read more and see how WebServerUK can help in your online retail success.

E-commerce can be divided into:

• E-tailing or "virtual storefronts" on Web sites with online catalogue's, sometimes gathered into a "virtual mall"
• Business-to-business buying and selling
• The security of business transactions ie: World Pay, Google Checkout, PayPal etc.

E-Commerce, keeping it simple
E-tailing or The Virtual Storefront and the Virtual Shopping Arcade as a place for direct retail shopping, with its 24-hour availability, a global reach, the ability to interact and provide custom information and ordering, and multimedia prospects on the Web is rapidly becoming a multibillion dollar source of revenue for the world's businesses.
A number of businesses already report considerable success. As early as the middle of 1997, Dell Computers reported orders of a million dollars a day. By early 1999, projected e-commerce revenues for business were in the billions of dollars and the stocks of companies deemed most adept at e-commerce were skyrocketing.

Although many so-called Dotcom retailers disappeared in the economic Gloom of 2000, Web retailing at sites such as Amazon.com, CDNow.com and CompudataOnline.com continues to grow as does every other aspect of e-retailing. No Rent, No Staff, No Rates, a well designed e-commerce website can be as big or as small as your Stock list.

If you are serious about your business, then you should be serious about your e-commerce site. Quick set-up template shopping systems are all well and good, but you will be paying in the long run. Good design and easy navigation are just two of the key factors in e-commerce success.

Many Low cost e-commerce providers, provide advanced manageable ecommerce systems with lots of features but miss out one key component when it comes to building e-commerce websites. The single most important factor that will determine whether customers buy from your website or not is down to the overall quality of the design and layout of your website.

Although many solutions offer customisable templates and online tools for you to build a website, a website built this way will never look as good as a website front end customised by a professional designer.

Provide online credit and debit card payments

Keep It Simple But Not Stupid
Let’s take a look at web designers. Firstly a lot of them try to make things look as 'Arty' and complicated as possible “Not Good For Navigation and Not Good for Search Engine Ranking” these are good reasons to use an experienced e-commerce designer. Who knows what the customer is looking for? and by placing buying prompt’s and keywords in the right places to maximise Sales & Ranking, and keeping the website clean, crisp and simple to find your way around will keep the customer staying on your site which should result in higher Sales.

Online Secure Software Is A Must For Your Shopping Cart
Now you have the bones of your e-commerce website it’s time to look at some Secure Credit/Debit card Payment Systems. Introducing PayPal, World Pay, Google Checkout, ProtX etc., We support all of these payment gateways, plus a few more. Depending on your budget, the price for using these services can be quite costly. But you have the added advantage that these payment gateways are industry supported by the banks and the majority of shopping cart systems. You also have the advantage that their systems are fully secure, which takes the worry out of you being liable to fraud or even hacking. It is extremely advisable that you use these types of Payment Gateway which not only gives you the retailer the security you need, but also provides the customer with just as much security also.

All card transactions must be completed on secure servers which may involve additional expense.

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