HOW TO CREATE AN E-COMMERCE WEBSITE?

G`day Laurian,

first step begins right here :rolleyes:

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YiKeS

If you want to create an e-commerce website, you should follow some steps:
1) Step One: Establish Your Online Identity with the Right Web Address
The first step toward e-commerce is selecting the name of your site. Your Web address (also called a URL-Uniform Resource Locator-or "domain name"), tells customers who you are and how to find you on the Internet.
2) Step Two: Build a User-Friendly Site
With a domain name in place, you're ready to start building your e-commerce storefront. But before you begin, take some time to plan.
- Plan Your Site Carefully
- Choose the Right Site-Building Tools
- E-Commerce Site Design Tips
3) Step Three: Set Up Your Web Server-or Select an ISP to Host
Your Web site is a series of files that reside on a special computer, called a Web server, connected to the Internet. For customers to visit your site, they must actually connect to that Web server via the Internet and view the files. Web servers and the Internet connections that link them to visitors must be fast and powerful enough to quickly respond to all the visitors' requests to view your site.
4) Step four: What to Look for in a Web Hosting Company. They are: Shared hosting or dedicated server, Hard-disk [COLOR=#ffff99! important][COLOR=#ffff99! important]storage [COLOR=#ffff99! important]space[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR], Availability, E-mail accounts, SSL Encryption, Support.
5) Step five: Accept Credit Cards
Accepting credit cards and other methods of payment online for your online business is crucial to your businesses success. If a customer has to send you a money order by mail, your sales will suffer because most people won't want to do that
6) Step six: Promote Your Site
Add it to search engines, directories, spam-free ffa pages, and guest books. Ensure not to put blatant advertisements in someone's guest book. That's very rude and would offend anyone. Take a look around the person's web site and tell them what you liked about it, while also leaving your link. Invite them to sign your guest book if you have one. You should attach your url to every email message you send out. This makes it easy for surfers to come back to your web site. Be patient because it takes time build up a steady flow of traffic.
7) Now, Start Selling

Thanks robertstr, thats helped me also.

Laurian,
magentocommerce.com
It's free, modern, open source, lots of tutorials and search engine optimized from the ground up.

On a side note:
I am personally working on solution that would allow anyone to launch micro-online store in minutes, sell anything and completely free. Stay tuned...

Gleb

I am always use VirtueMart: Your free e-commerce solution. - Welcome..., it's very easy to use with Joomla platform. You just need to download the Virtuemart e-commerce edition and upload to your host.

I'd buy a web template and have it customized