Jan 07 2009
Web Site Templates for E-Commerce Web Hosting
Whether you’re looking for a simple web site or a functional e-commerce website, the chances are that you may be able to find a few web templates from your web hosting company. A simple web template may cost under $20 dollars, but a well-designed professional e-commerce website will cost a few hundreds or more if not thousands. The cost of web templates is still cheap comparing to custom-made e-commerce websites when Web designers charge anywhere from $20 to $100 per hour. If you want to check out some templates, go to www.templates box.com
Additional the requirements of normal hosting plans, Webhosting templates for ecommerce should have a shopping cart that supports online catalog and online payment like Pay Pal. Web templates for e-commerce often include common pages and navigations for online shopping - searching or browsing products, adding items to shopping carts and making payment. The web templates for e-commerce do not include or connect to any specific shopping cart. It’s up to the webmasters to add shopping cart to the site.
The alternative e-commerce hosting to web templates is e-commerce turnkey solution. EBay Stores, Yahoo! Hosting and HostGator Hosting are the most popular turn-key e-commerce solutions for small businesses that want to setup online stores easily. Different hosting plans may have different free structures. The cost of each hosting plan often varies on transaction volume.
When comparing functionality, there’re many questions to ask: 1) whether a shopping cart accepts online check or debit card.2) Whether there's a limit on the number of items and classes that you can configure; 3) whether it automatically sends out an message alert once an order is made at your website.
When looking at the cost of commerce operation, you’ll need to ask questions about 1) what’s the basic monthly fee for transactions; 2) is there’s a setup fee for a new online store; 3) how about handling taxes?; 4) how much it charges for each transaction.
