SEO, Web Design & Development Melbourne Blog: April 2012

Monday 9 April 2012

How much does a shopping cart cost to install on a website?

Installing a shopping cart may not be as expensive as using it.

Installing it may cost you anything from $0-$200, But buying a Shopping cart may cost you anything between $0-$1000 and using it monthly may cost anywhere between $15-$300 per month.

Also if your shopping cart is online and full functional, customer may buy a product, and you the vendor could be charged a small % fee per transaction, a fixed fee or both.

Transaction fees can be between: 0-4%

Fixed fees can be between 0-$1.

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How to add a shopping cart to your website?

This can be simply done with a drag and drop method. All it takes is 3 simple methods.

1. You will need a Shopping Cart. There are many shopping carts out there.

Just go to your favourite search engine, hit in “free ecommerce shopping cart software”

Just save the folder onto the desktop.

2. Now that we have a Shopping Cart, We need a Host. The Host is where, your shopping cart or your website will be viewed?

There a Free hosting available out there, so go back to your favourite search engine, hit in “free website hosting”, make an account and remember those details, or write them down to a file.

3. Now that we have a free hosting account, we need a FTP (File Transfer Protocol), this is a program to connect to your hosting account. Now again head back to your most trusted search engine, key in “FTP”, download a version that’s suitable for your computer. Once installed, open the program. It will write (usually at the top), host, username, password, port.

Now go back to where your hosting details are, and type in as follows, host, username, password and the port you don’t have to worry about usually, but the default number is 21 or 22.

Now if you haven’t connected, then retry the host, username, password and post. If you keep getting nothing or an error, contact your host.

It you’re connected (CONGRATS! Well done! Don’t worry, you’re nearly finished!) Once connected, usually there are 2 square boxes! On the left box are the files that are on your computer and on the right box are the file in your web hosting account for your website.

There will already be a list of files in your web hosting account. All you have to do is look for a folder called. “public_html”, this folder is the root location for your website.

Drag and Drop your shopping cart files into this folder, it may take long depending on how many files your shopping cart has.

Wait for it to finish and once done, visit your URL of your web hosting, and it should come up as a install.

Follow the prompts and youll have a shopping cart online!

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How to create a website?

In order to create a website, you need to know what a website is made out of. To do this.

If you’re using Internet Explorer, right click on the background (preferably where there’s no text or images) and select “View Source”. You can also do this by Click “view” on the top toolbar and clicking “Source”, either way it gets to the same spot.

If you’re using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, right click on the background (preferably where there’s no text or images) and select “View Source”. Otherwise you can hit “Ctrl” + “U”. This is a shortcut to view the code.

Now that you have the website code up in front of you, it may look like a bunch random characters, you may understand some words if not none.

Most of the code you will see is called a HTML (Hyper Text Mark-Up Language). Websites are mainly coded in this but there are many other web programming languages. You can learn HTML from W3Schools.

To make a website look stylish and easy-to-use, it takes time and effort but also knowledge and experience. So be patience if you’re looking to get become a Web Designer!

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Shopping cart for website

You need a website that supports a shopping cart? Need the right plans to suit your budget?

At Elegant Web Designs, we are specialists in Ecommerce Web Design, we create Elegant looking websites with online shopping to serve your customers!

Visit, Web Design Company to view our portfolio, package deals and for a free quote!

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Best ecommerce solution for website?

Well what is it?

Some Shopping carts are expensive to you and some may be free. What which is better?

Zen Cart. It’s easy to install, use and good management with its Admin panel.

Shopify. It’s an easy to use online store builder, fully customisable store design and secure shopping cart provided.

Magento GO. A Flexible Design, Powerful marketing tool, has a Magento Connect “App” Store.

As you can see, out of the three of these shopping cart software builders, they all have different aspects but all serve one main purpose, and that is of course to serve your customers. Each can be customisable to how you’d like your shopping cart to look online!
This is why at Elegant Web Design we custom build your ecommerce website.

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What is Ecommerce?

The E in Ecommerce means Electronic. Meaning simply electronic commerce.

Electronic Commerce also known as shopping online. Buying and Selling goods and services.

It is one of the most popular ways to get your business known and keep reoccurring customers. It is faster, safe (to an extent) and for some, it may also be cheaper!

Due to the modern technological age we live in today, our internet speeds can load up a page, ready to go under a second. We can search the website, if it has the function and we can look for it under the appropriate category, unlike trying to find the product or service in the shop then paying for it. Most Ecommerce website designs today, have a checkout installed with a credit card function for quick payment processing. Unless you use online banking system, like PayPal, Western Union.

Some may disagree some may not, but it sharing your valuable information, like your credit card, may result in you getting scammed or recorded to be used for the attacker’s purposes’. The internet is never 100% secure. So always be careful where you enter your credentials or what website you visit, there’s always an attacker out there waiting for you.

It is cheaper than retail or even warehouses due to not having a middle man. Usually the products you buy will come straight from the manufacturer which means no other costs involved, maybe only the shipping. Most people now days shop online to grab great bargains off websites like Ebay, Craiglist, Gumtree.

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How to choose a web design company?

How to choose a web design company?

This question may be puzzling you? Who am I going to choose? What are my options? Where do I stand? No worries, below your questions can be answered in a little depth to help make a decision you won’t regret.

This question has a few factors involved around it. Cost, Appearance and Designer.

First of all, Cost.

If your happy to spend a little bit more than your budget, you’re most likely to get what you want. Spend less and not get what your money’s worth.

Due to some circumstances, yes money can be an issue, but if it’s going to be a website you love and your customers keep returning back to it, then it will be an investment. We must always weigh our options to see how it pans out.

Second, Appearance.

Of course appearance has a lot to do with attracting your customers to go with you or to choose your competition. Just like hiring a person for the job. You want the right person, but who can do it more effectively and efficient? Person A? or Person B?

Third, Designer.

Well we’ve come to the gold nugget. The one or who can solve your website needs.

Some may disagree and some may not but actually the Designer is the one why people choose that company to create their website. Even if you have a budget or the designer’s portfolio is your liking, once that make you feel comfortable you’d prefer them, instead of a designer, that just wants your money and do the design.

Usually the golden rule is for any customer. Portfolio > Cost > Website.

Meaning if they’re portfolio is excellent, the cost is worth it for their website.

Saturday 7 April 2012

Elegant Web Designs Social Network Update!

Elegant Web Designs Social Network Update!

We are now on LinkedIn and Facebook!!

Links below;

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