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.

PCI Compliance Issues

Continuing our previous articles about legal issues, there is another legal issues you need to know, PCI Compliance. PCI DSS, is short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This is a specific set of rules for ensuring secure, proper handling of credit cards by all commercial vendors. Any company that processes, stores, or transmits credit card information must follow these guidelines, thereby being PCI compliant.

You absolutely do not want to store the user’s credit card information! There are companies that do that, yes, but that’s their full-time job and they have the knowledge, resources, and money to do that properly. Still, even taking credit card information on your site and passing it off to another company means you should be PCI compliant. The specific requirements differ based upon what you actually do with credit cards and how many transactions per year you process.

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

Joomla

There are many of CMS, but this time I’d like to talk more about Joomla. Other CMS system which are related to Joomla is Mambo, the code itself based on PHP and MySQL as the core database system.

The word Joomla comes from Swahili, which could be translated as “all together” or “as a whole”. From the word we do know that its related to community and forums, that inspire OpenSourceMatters, Inc. creating this free and web based CMS.