Category Archives: E-commerce

How to Create Selling E-Commerce Websites

How to Create Selling E-Commerce Websites

How to Create Selling E-Commerce Websites

This e-book steps you through the preparation of your e-commerce projects, showing you what it takes to present merchandise as beautifully and convincingly, and how to run valid and successful A/B and multivariate testing of various designs.

The articles are a selection of the best from Smashing Magazine in 2009 and 2010 dealing with creating e-commerce websites. They have been carefully edited and prepared as a PDF version and versions for ePub and Mobipocket compatible e-book readers, such as the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle. Some screenshots and links were removed in order to make the book easier to read and to print.[ad code=3 align=center] Continue reading

Magento: Beginner’s Guide

Magento-Beginners-Guide

Magento-Beginners-Guide

Magento is the world’s most evolved e-commerce solution. It runs on the Apache/MySQL/PHP platform. From one installation, you can control multiple storefronts, all sharing customer and product information. Magento’s templates and themes enable you to customize the look and feel of your store, even optimizing it for mobile phones. Extensions enable you to connect Magento to a large number of payment gateways and shipping services. Modular code enables you to upgrade your Magento installation while retaining your customizations. Support is provided free by an active open source community and by subscription to Varien, the company behind Magento.

Magento is one of the most exciting, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you an extensive suite of powerful tools for creating and managing an online store. As your online store grows, you can be sure that this robust e-commerce system can handle your needs. However, getting started with Magento can be difficult without the right guidance.[ad code=1 align=center]
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Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL

Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL

Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL

In this comprehensive guide to creating an e-commerce Web site using PHP and MySQL, renowned author Larry Ullman walks you through every step—designing the visual interface, creating the database, presenting content, generating an online catalog, managing the shopping cart, handling the order and the payment process, and fulfilling the order—always with security and best practices emphasized along the way. Even if you’re an experienced Web developer, you’re guaranteed to learn something new. The book uses two e-commerce site examples—one based on selling physical products that require shipping and delayed payment, and another that sells non-physical products to be purchased and delivered instantly—so you see the widest possible range of e-commerce scenarios. In 11 engaging, easy-to-follow chapters, Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL teaches you how to:

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E-commerce Web Design Turn Your Website Into Profit: E-commerce Guide to Success

E-commerce Web Design Turn Your Website Into Profit

E-commerce Web Design Turn Your Website Into Profit

When it comes to e-commerce, your first thought is Amazon or Zappos where you can purchase books or a great pair of shoes. Electronic commerce is when buying and selling of products or services happens over the Internet or other computer networks. Amazon and Zappos are just two of the wellknown sites where business-to-consumer transactions occur. However, there are many of other exchanges online for business-to-business commodity exchanges, and almost all large retailers now

have an electronic presence online. In the 1970’s, businesses used an Electronic Data Interchange technology to send purchase orders and invoices electronically. This began what is now known as online shopping, an industry relied on heavily for manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and businesses combined. In 2008, manufacturers alone accounted for $2,154 billion of total e-commerce shipments (U.S. Department of Commerce).
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