If I want to build a ecommerce website, do i need to have both an account with a web hosting company and an account with a ecommerce developer like monstercommerce or are they essentially the same thing?
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monstercommerce is a web hosting company who specializes in ecommerce features... you can check network solutions www.networksolutions.com ... you can set-up thru them...
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There is no substitute for having your own code. Here are crucial things you will need. If a site does not provide all of this you are better off hiring somebody to do a custom job for you. \n\nDo you get to download data from the database. Yahoo is a horrible place to host a biz site. One reason is if you ever decide to rehost you lose every bit of customer data you had. Nor can you get the HTML for your site. So you have to rebuild from scratch. Can you access, edit and copy the html used to create your site and is it propriatory to that host? If you cannot rehost the website it is useless to you. What happens if the hosting fees suddenly jump or something else happens that forces you to rehost or entices you to rehost? You do not want to rebuild the entire site from scratch. \n\nHow secure is the transations? This is very important. If somebody gets their credit card info ripped off from a purchase at your site you are the one who will get the blame for this. \n\nHow much room is there for expansion? Whatever you sell, you will likely branch out to other products or improve the description of your products. You need a hosting company which will allow you to add custom code to your site to do exactly this. \n\nAnother crucial factor is the ablity to display and organize your products. I personally have given up on web sites which had poorly organized product lists and made me wade through dozens of pages with maybe only one or two items on that page of possible interest. \n\nSearch capabilities are crucial. People want to quickly and easily find a product. They also want to be able to bookmark a product to share with friends or to return too after comparing with competitors. If the product detail listing does not allow you to bookmark a specific item then you will lose sales. \n\nAre any of your products contraversial or adult in nature? There are special hosts for products like that and most mainstream hosting services will not touch such endeavors. \n\nBandwidth is crucial. Customers will quickly give up in your web site is slow. \n\nWill your code work with all common browsers. A common mistake is to write code specific for IE or Firefox and not double check. Depending on who you ask IE or Firefox is the most commonly used browser today with the other running a close second. Netscape, Safari,  Mozilla, Opera, and a dozen others comprise at least %3-7 percent of the market. Few business's can afford to tell %3-7 percent of potential customers we do not want you. If you only support IE or Firefox you are telling at least half the people who visit your site that you do not want them. That is what somebody says when they do not support your favorite browser. While it is impossible to support every browser made, if you stick with WC3 complient code you will support %99.9 of the browsers out there. \n\nMake sure you get a valid cert. \n\nSSL support is %100 essential. \n\nIf you are not a good graphic artist get somebody to design your graphics. The better a site looks the more you will sell. \n\nAvoid cheesy URLs like xxx.yahoo or xxx.MSN this is a sign of a fly by night shop who will not honor warentees, returns and who will not be around or easy to find next week.
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Many hosting companies also offer e-commerce add ons for their hosting at a pretty small cost. I use stargateinc.com and they have e-commerce functions built into their sitemanager for about $8/month\n\nPaypal has a nice system for intrating your shopping site with them. You create the front end and then send the user to Paypal for payment.\n\nEbay has free shops you can setup to sell and so does amazon, called zshops.\n\nIf you aren't up to speed on asp or php i would recommend that you don't try to build the payment processing your self. this can be tricky and you would hate to have major problems when you are dealing with peoples credit cards. You also have extra costs like setting up the merchant account, buying and installing an SSL, and of course all the development and testing time.
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If you have already designed your page, you're almost there.  HOSTING is when you pay to use space on someone's computer.  They have a server that they sell space on.  You pay them - upload your files to their server and it's accessed from the internet.\n\nDomain name is your '.com'.  You typically 'buy' that name from a company you find and typically it's good for a specific period of time - at which time you 'renew' your name.\n\nYou need 'both' of these things to really get a site running.  I have used 'free' hosting but usually it has to contain a lot of ads.  I choose to pay for my domain name and site name.  Many times, the HOSTING people will provide you some software so you can 'upload' your page to their server.  Just ask them ahead of time..... Can get pretty sophisticated.  Many people that do this will be happy to help you get your stuff on their server.
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Well, if you wanted to have your own site and eventually a domain name, you should look into getting web hosting and using a shopping cart system.  My dad uses PayPal, which is free but charges a transaction fee.  This takes money from each item you sell.  Google offers a service like this too.  There are plenty of shopping cart scripts though, if you find a web host that gives you a MySQL database and offers PHP so that you can install it.  Below I added a link to a list of them.  As for hosting, it depends on how much you want to spend or if you want to start off with a free site.  I recommend searching for this yourself but I have added links two directories I find helpful to speed up the process.
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You don't need a programmer!\n\nGo to EZLAVA.com and they have a software program you can use that does everything you would need a programmer to do.  They have a web site builder that uses a click and drag system, and click and edit admins.  It's really easy to use.  It also has an e-commerce shopping cart builder, and a HTML text manager.  They provide the hosting and tech support too.  And they're really cheap.  We love 'em!    :)
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Hello. \nThere are a few things. If you go to www.geocities.com you can register a free website. it will be minimal and contain geocities in the URL (thats the address bar text). If you go to the website below they will help you register a domain. That means you take something like johnnyboy.com and make it your own. Most places over charge you for this service, the link below is the cheapest most reliable website I know of. \nMake sure you register the domain 'privately' that means people looking to spam new website owners cannot get your email and address. \nOnce you have registered a domain you can use the websites 'web builder' to create your website. It will walk you through it and you dont have to know code. If you want to incorporate sales and money into your website, a good one is paypal. If you use that site you can accept credit card and check payments or donations. I'll put a link for that below too. The address below may be too long. When you get to 1and1.com click on hosting, and then click the option that is 2.99 per month. It will register a domain for you for free! when you use that service. So your website will endup costing about 40 dollars per year. That is a very good price.
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Yes you need a web hosting and domain, try this one : http://www.88cent.com They offer very affordable web hosting 500 MB space, 5 GB monthly transfer only 88 cents per month there are no hidden fees. They can also register your domain + web hosting + design your web site (business , personal or gallery) in flash. Their very professional staff will help you promote your web site, give you ideas what to do to get it on search engines etc.
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No. You don't need to set up 3 different accounts for your 3 websites.\n\nTo track how each site is performing, set up each website as a channel. You can set up a URL channel for each website, so you can know exactly how much each site is contributing to your total Adsense revenues.\n\nhttps://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=9868&ctx=en:search&query=channel&topic=0&type=f\n\nFor more information on how you can increase your Adsense income, read the following articles:\n\nGoogle Adsense: How Small Business Entrepreneurs can Earn from Online Advertising http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol139/contextual.htm \nEarning Revenues from Contextual Advertising http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol123/adsense.htm \n8 Tips for Maximizing Contextual Advertising Revenues http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol146/contextual.htm \nContextual Advertising: Why Are You Earning Only Pennies? http://www.powerhomebiz.com/022006/adsense.htm
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First, you will have to decide if you wish to use your own domain name (i.e., http://www.mydomain.com) or prefer to use a subdomain (i.e., http://www.yahoo.com/myshop/) You may wish to consider using Yahoo Small Business for your needs until you get more capital - http://sbs.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/?p=1 for as low as $8.95 a month. (i.e., I will not post links to other commercial businesses that offer these services because its a violation of Yahoo rules but you can Google them). The Yahoo Starter package includes all the things you need to get started, including MySQL (you can even create a customized shopping cart), PHP, etc and enough pages to suit your for as long as you are still a small businesses. It also offers over 200 email addresses, and a Sitebuilder with templates that you could get started with.\n\nYou may also consider using your home computer to host your own website for free. It would need to have an dedicated internet connection and server software such as Apache (free web server). I wouldn't recommend this until you have more experience and capital.
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You can go with a free web host, then later upgrade to a paying account if you need more features. This is a good option, because free web hosts often offer very easy to use programs and interfaces that make it a snap to build your own web site, even if you don't know much about programming [HTML, javascript, etc]. Some will even give you cool graphics and templates to start you off with. You can also go with a fee-based host as well. Just make sure-- if you're totally new to web page building-- that whichever one you eventually choose has an easy program you can use to build your site with.\n\nI have to warn you, though, that based on your content [nudity], you might run into a little trouble setting up an account. This is because many web hosts are very strict about the type of content they will host. So before you sign up with any host, make sure you read its Terms of Service to make sure your photos are acceptable, or you might find yourself in violation and have your site revoked one day down the line.
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My site, the company, is a pain, if you have those programs all you need to do is find a 'hosting company.' Do a web search there are even still a few 'free one's' out there otherwise pick a company and sign up, send your money and they will give ya your URL. You need that to launch your site. My space ya used to be able to make the page using their site. Dunno if you still can?\n\nhttp://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/
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Hi\n\nI am freelance web designer. Let me share my experience. I am hosting with many Indian and US companies. \n\nLot of hosting companies brand hosting service from hosting companies and sell in India. They wont reveal this. But technically we can find that without telling them. So while selecting its better you go to the companies who are real hosting companies. One such recommendation is following\n\nThe best option would be trying www.netandhost.com. You can register your pack online and get instantly activated.
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It is not that easy to do business on the Web, as you are now learning. In fact, creating a website is the easiest part - to get visitors to your website and to get them to buy your products is a whole different ballgame.\n\nWith the bizopp you signed up with, you have to remember that you are not the only one with the same pre-set website. All Watkins affiliates have the same website; and you are competing with the main Watkins website which has almost the same look as the website of affiliates like you. I am not sure whether Watkins allow affiliates to reconfigure the pre-set templates; but given your current website your chances for getting traffic from search engines organically (natural rankings as opposed to pay per click) is very low.\n\nYour main chance is to advertise your website. And it can be expensive, whether buying pay per click through Adwords or buying links from other websites.\n\nHowever, buying email lists is not advisable. Whatever these email vendors tell you, the fact that the people in the lists they are selling have not explicitly agreed to receive email from you means you will be spamming them. Authorities are increasingly tightening up on spammers, and I don't think you'd want to tangle with that.
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You don't need any kind of agreement to start a store.  When you go to actually "open for business", you will need to have either a valid merchant account set up or a PayPal account.
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Yes you do.The very nature of ecommerce is to for the buyer to receive their product or service ASAP.Likewise the seller  wants to sell while the visitor is there.You could operate on checks and money orders ,but that involves additional cost(postage) and elongated time for the buyer to receive their product or service,as the seller has to wait for the check to clear and then ship.Many items(non tangible)do not require a shipping cost ,but if you have to send a hard copy,then you have additional shipping cost added to the cost of the product or service.This is the day of instant acquisition and gratification,and if the customer doesn't buy from you because you offer no way to pay immediately,they will buy from someone else.Sellers are not responsible for credit card debt,the credit card holder is,and its about time they shoulder the responsibility for their own mismanagement.
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You can go with Godaddy.com or I htink that yahoo also sell domain names now. As for design and set up, it's best to find some sort of content management system that is already packaged. YOu would have select one and then learn either php or asp or jsp and a database like MYSQL to st it up.. you should look up "open source content management system" and hopefully find one that doesn't require databases.