CMS and E-commerce

Testing

Testing your Web site isn’t a one-time, standalone step, but rather something you’ll need to do often. You cannot test your site too much! Unfortunately, it’s hard for the site developer to perform a truly good test of the site: He or she
created it, so he or she knows how it should work and uses it accordingly.

A better test is what happens when your family, coworkers, and annoying friends give the site a whirl. And I specify the annoying friends, because they’re the ones who will attempt to do things you never would have imagined. When these people, who aren’t Web developers themselves, purposefully or accidentally misuse the site, what happens? From these experiences you can improve the user interface and security of the whole application.

Database and Programming Design

Continuing our last articles about Basic development design, lets have a look at database design and programming design in this article.

Designing the database is a key step, largely because changes to the database at a later date have far larger implications and potential complications than changing any other aspect of the site. Adding functionality through database changes is a steep challenge and fixing database flaws is excruciating, so make every effort you can to get the database design right the first time.

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.

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.

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.