CMS and E-commerce

Basic Development Process

Now its time to take a look at development process. Basic development process consist of planning, design, programming, testing, publishing, maintaining and improving process.

The development process occurs in phases. If each phase is approached deliberately and the end results are properly generated, you’ll develop a great e-commerce site as effi ciently as possible. If, on the other hand, you jump around, rush the process, skip steps, and make omissions, the whole procedure will take much longer, and the end result will be buggier.

Things you should know before using payment system

In our previous articles two payment system (payment processor and payment gateway) have been described. But if you’ra asking me which one is the best, then the answer is depends on the objective of your e-commerce and off course the budget.

Payment gateway consider more more professional and ought to be your solution for all but the simplest e-commerce sites. But payment processors are quite commonly used and do make sense for some businesses, so don’t dismiss them as an option entirely.

Payment System

As with your choice of a Web-hosting company, the payment system you use for your e-commerce site will have a significant impact on the end result. This is not to say that the site will be married to a single payment system for eternity, but as with any divorce, ending a relationship with a payment system can be tedious and costly for your business.

There are two broad types of payment systems, which are frequently known by a variety of names but can be described as either a payment processor or a payment gateway.

Which web technologies to use?

The goals and the possibles issues you already known, now its time to the next step, which is choosing web technologies such as coding, etc. The world have changed, and the popular web technologies as well, previously we have html ((HyperText Markup Language). then PHP, also CSS, CMS, etc, those might be confusing for you.

Also we could create a basic e-commerce online site easily from major company such as Yahoo!, Google, and others provide. By answering some questions and using their interface, you can create a basic e-commerce site in a day. It’ll even be tied automatically into a payment system. But make no mistake: Although you’ll get up and running in no time, the end result will be rather amateurish and very limited.

Legal Issues

Like any other business in this world, like it or not you got to deal with legal authorities eventually. The first time you build your own business company, you’ll be faced with series of legal papers need to solved, and that’s just for starter.

Although in some countries an online business its not quite popular, so that there only little limitation on legal issues, but you got to know your area, cause might be someday you’ll need it after all.