CMS and E-commerce

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.

Virtue-Mart

VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce component for Joomla!. It enables Joomla! site administrators to build a product catalog, configure payment and shipping methods, and allows the selling of products online.

Like any other shopping cart (such as osCommerce, Zen Cart, Magento, and so on), VirtueMart allows administrators to configure the shop, configure the selling workflow, configure the payment and shipping options, configure product categories and catalog, and manage customers and orders. However, the difference between VirtueMart and shopping cart applications like osCommerce and Zen Cart, is that

CMS and E-commerce

As the first articles, I’ll try to describe about CMS and E-commerce. CMS which is stand for Content Management System, is a free web source that we could found on the internet. Although at the beginning some people doubt it, especially for its security and compatibility, but till know web masters like to use it.

The reasons are simple, cause its free, easy to modify, and doesn’t need to start it from a scratch. How about E-commerce, an electronic commercial system which are use as electronic shopping, are became trends as well as the internet usage kept on increasing each years.