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If your domain name is going to be more than 3 words then use hyphens.
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If you’ve registered a domain name, have your hosting account, and are now ready to take the next big step in creating your first website, there are some important questions that you’ll have to answer first. You likely already know what the site will be about, but the important question then focuses on what you’d like to accomplish with the website.
Perhaps the site’s purpose is to provide information to interested visitors, or to sell a produce or service. Other possibilities are that the site is designed to collect information from targeted visitors, or merely serve as an online “business card” for your company. Whatever the case, getting your site online and functioning properly depends on what you’d like to accomplish with the site. Here are some things to consider when putting together a successful website:
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Dynamic Sites are those where the content and design live separately. The content lives in a database that is placed on a webpage only when needed or asked. The benefit of this is that it allows for quicker page loading and it allows just about anyone, with limited or no web design experience, to update their own website via an administrative backend. This set up is ideal for those who wish to make frequent changes to their websites including text and image updates. Dynamic sites are also great for image galleries, online calendars or e-commerce.
Applications:
Static Sites are Web pages that always comprises the same information in response to all download requests from all users. Contrast with Dynamic web page. Displaying the same information for all users, from all contexts, providing the classical hypertext, where navigation is performed through "static" documents.
Definition: Officially, electronic commerce is “Electronic Commerce is the paperless exchange of goods or services through the use of electronic data transfer”.
This term has been in use for dozens of years and was originated to describe the transfer of data between two companies through dedicated or dial up connections. It wasn’t until the advent of the public Internet that e-commerce became a household word. Today, the more typical definition of e-commerce is “To sell goods or services on the web.”
This type of e-commerce is definitely here to stay. Growth of Internet based sales is in double digits and the growth of Internet use by the public is still showing dramatic increases. The ease of placing an order online has brought the buying public to Internet sales. The technology may change but the market will remain.
In fact, if you currently have a retail location and don't have an e-commerce website you are probably loosing sales. Many people are using the Internet to locate and price products that will eventually be bought locally. Having your products online will also help promote your business locally. Benefits: The true benefits of the Internet as an electronic commerce medium are easy to delineate. The web allows almost instant change to your entire business structure, merchandise, pricing, marketing, promotions and sales process. In fact, the Internet will allow you to change all of this from customer to customer. Unfortunately this is only useful if you have a web site that will allow it to occur. Static HTML sites cannot give you the ability to let the site customize it’s self to the customer. You need sophisticated computer programs running your e-commerce site. Market Research: In the early years the Internet actually helped flatten the playing field between large and small e-commerce businesses. In fact, many customers would rather do business with a small company rather than a large one because the customer service is more personal and interactive. Today things are a little different. The cost of creating an online store has dropped dramatically over the last 10 years. Today even a small retail store can have a valid online e-commerce site for under $2000.00. The complexity of online credit card payments has been reduced dramatically. A few online merchant account companies have bundled the entire process into one inexpensive and simple to use and understand process for the average online e-commerce site. If you need custom features they are available, but for most companies, the standardized processes work just fine.
The complexity of finding someone to host your e-commerce site has also been reduced over the years. It is recommended to host your e-commerce solution with the company you purchased the solution from. When you do this you can rest easy about functionality problems. It will not matter whether it is the software or the hosting solution… the same people are responsible for making it work.
