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On line ecommerce shops
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
Web development, design & programming in Guildford
On-line shops
These days, many people are discovering that they can literally make money when they are sleeping! In other words, have a website that sells things on-line 24/7 where money is electronically transferred into their account. On-line shops can sell a wide variety of products and services, anything from dog-food to legal consultations.E-commerce engines
Most on-line shops use e-commerce engines. Instead of having custom made html pages, they have a program running on the server that generates the product pages. E-commerce engines have several drawbacks:- Generally expensive: with big purchase price and/or annual rentals, expensive options.
- Restrictions: on a normal webpage anything the web developer wishes is possible, while on an engine page, only the limited things the engine can do are possible (e.g. a product can only have the options that the engine allows, such as colours, sizes etc.). Some engines are more capable, but charge much more for additonal options.
- Templates: Many engines, especially the cheaper ones, use simple templates resulting in shop sites looking alike.
- Deployment: Most engines need the webspace's server specially configured, or worse, a special server from the supplying company. This locks the customer with them and makes moving to another server very difficult, especially if the supplying company goes under.
