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Published: October 30, 2006
Every successful website must contain several different items. Likewise, every website currently under construction should also contain these design elements.
When starting work on the website's creation, experts at both Homebusiness-websites.com and Creativearts.com recommend potential entrepreneurs lay out their website's design on paper. Make notes, draw flow charts and diagrams to map out where everything needs to be from home page to checkout.
This step should also include choosing a name for your website and having the domain name registered.
The next step is choosing a web design for your website. The colors, fonts, graphics, and other components should be taken into consideration. If the website owner's computer expertise is limited, hiring a web designer to do the work for you may be a good idea. Aside from finding a web designer, a reputable web host should be found. The host will keep the website's files in a secure server where the system administrator can oversee and maintain the computer hardware to make sure the website stays online.
After the web host and designers have been chosen, an e-commerce website owner needs to obtain a merchant account to accept payments over the internet. Homebusiness-websites.com recommends using Credit Card Now for new merchants or GTA Net for existing merchants. The GTA Net system includes a shopping cart system that can hold as many as fifty items. Merchants also need to make sure the payment system uses SSL encryption. Another website, Webhost-observer.com, recommends merchants accept payments from a wider variety of methods, not just credit cards. Those methods include PayPal and an electronic check payment service.
Before the website is launched it is important to remember the target market and demographics of your customers. Is your website geared to a specific age range, race, or ethnicity? Is it geared to only women or does the website include products for men as well as women?
One of the most important features every good website includes is a newsletter. Visitors and customers can enter their e-mail address in a form on your website. This way, merchants can keep their customers updated regarding new or discontinued products, sales and promotions, and any other information the customers should be aware of. One handy tool merchants can include in their newsletters, e-mails and newsgroup postings is a signature file. A signature file is a small note consisting of six to eight lines of text at the end of every message. It can contain your contact information as well as any information about sales and promotions.
Like a newsletter, a merchant always needs to be available for their customers. The ability to answer questions and offer product support is vital to ensure your customers are happy with their purchases. Product support and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) should be on every successful merchant's web pages.
If a customer e-mails a merchant to ask a question not listed in your FAQ list, an autoresponder can be a reassuring tool. When a customer sends an e-mail to a merchant's company, the autoresponder automatically sends an e-mail back to the consumer basically telling them the message has been received and a reply is forthcoming.
Another optional feature for a website is a forum where customers can post questions, comments, or complaints about the quality of service. This way potential and present customers can see how well other customers are being treated.
There are three items considered crucial for every e-commerce entrepreneur to abide by. Webpronews.com suggests a website should be easy to read, easy to navigate, and a quickly loading website is the key to e-commerce success. The normal method for creating a web page is dark text on a white or light colored background. Short sentences should also be used. "Keep it simple and you'll keep the sale."
Secondly, make the navigation of your website easy. If people can’t get through the website easily, they will lose patience and leave the site. Avoid broken page links, and provide navigation buttons including the home page button on every one of your web pages. Lastly, a web page dragged down by a lot of graphics, photos, music, and text will mean the page will take forever to load. This is especially true if the customer uses a computer with a slow internet connection.
If all of these topics are taken into consideration, your website should not have a problem becoming profitable. Sit back, relax, and watch the money roll in as you hear from all of your satisfied customers.
Homebusiness-websites.com. Steve MacLellan. October 18, 2006. http://homebusiness-websites.com/sebook/index.html
CreativeArts.com. "Building a Dynamic Online Interactive Brochure." Copyright 2000. Creative Arts Company. October 18, 2006. http://www.creativearts.com/business/
Massie, Mike. "Three Things You Must Do When Designing and Building Your Small Business Website." WebProNews. April 4, 2005. Copyright 2005. Modern Digital Marketing LLC. October 18, 2006.
http://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/smallbusiness/ wpn-2-20050404ThreeThingsYouMustDoWhenDesigningand />
Webhost-observer.com. "Tutorial/ Business Websites." October 18, 2006. http://www.webhost-observer.com/businessWebSites.h tm
When starting work on the website's creation, experts at both Homebusiness-websites.com and Creativearts.com recommend potential entrepreneurs lay out their website's design on paper. Make notes, draw flow charts and diagrams to map out where everything needs to be from home page to checkout.
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The next step is choosing a web design for your website. The colors, fonts, graphics, and other components should be taken into consideration. If the website owner's computer expertise is limited, hiring a web designer to do the work for you may be a good idea. Aside from finding a web designer, a reputable web host should be found. The host will keep the website's files in a secure server where the system administrator can oversee and maintain the computer hardware to make sure the website stays online.
After the web host and designers have been chosen, an e-commerce website owner needs to obtain a merchant account to accept payments over the internet. Homebusiness-websites.com recommends using Credit Card Now for new merchants or GTA Net for existing merchants. The GTA Net system includes a shopping cart system that can hold as many as fifty items. Merchants also need to make sure the payment system uses SSL encryption. Another website, Webhost-observer.com, recommends merchants accept payments from a wider variety of methods, not just credit cards. Those methods include PayPal and an electronic check payment service.
Before the website is launched it is important to remember the target market and demographics of your customers. Is your website geared to a specific age range, race, or ethnicity? Is it geared to only women or does the website include products for men as well as women?
One of the most important features every good website includes is a newsletter. Visitors and customers can enter their e-mail address in a form on your website. This way, merchants can keep their customers updated regarding new or discontinued products, sales and promotions, and any other information the customers should be aware of. One handy tool merchants can include in their newsletters, e-mails and newsgroup postings is a signature file. A signature file is a small note consisting of six to eight lines of text at the end of every message. It can contain your contact information as well as any information about sales and promotions.
Like a newsletter, a merchant always needs to be available for their customers. The ability to answer questions and offer product support is vital to ensure your customers are happy with their purchases. Product support and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) should be on every successful merchant's web pages.
If a customer e-mails a merchant to ask a question not listed in your FAQ list, an autoresponder can be a reassuring tool. When a customer sends an e-mail to a merchant's company, the autoresponder automatically sends an e-mail back to the consumer basically telling them the message has been received and a reply is forthcoming.
Another optional feature for a website is a forum where customers can post questions, comments, or complaints about the quality of service. This way potential and present customers can see how well other customers are being treated.
There are three items considered crucial for every e-commerce entrepreneur to abide by. Webpronews.com suggests a website should be easy to read, easy to navigate, and a quickly loading website is the key to e-commerce success. The normal method for creating a web page is dark text on a white or light colored background. Short sentences should also be used. "Keep it simple and you'll keep the sale."
Secondly, make the navigation of your website easy. If people can’t get through the website easily, they will lose patience and leave the site. Avoid broken page links, and provide navigation buttons including the home page button on every one of your web pages. Lastly, a web page dragged down by a lot of graphics, photos, music, and text will mean the page will take forever to load. This is especially true if the customer uses a computer with a slow internet connection.
If all of these topics are taken into consideration, your website should not have a problem becoming profitable. Sit back, relax, and watch the money roll in as you hear from all of your satisfied customers.
Homebusiness-websites.com. Steve MacLellan. October 18, 2006. http://homebusiness-websites.com/sebook/index.html
CreativeArts.com. "Building a Dynamic Online Interactive Brochure." Copyright 2000. Creative Arts Company. October 18, 2006. http://www.creativearts.com/business/
Massie, Mike. "Three Things You Must Do When Designing and Building Your Small Business Website." WebProNews. April 4, 2005. Copyright 2005. Modern Digital Marketing LLC. October 18, 2006.
http://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/smallbusiness/ wpn-2-20050404ThreeThingsYouMustDoWhenDesigningand />
Webhost-observer.com. "Tutorial/ Business Websites." October 18, 2006. http://www.webhost-observer.com/businessWebSites.h tm
