What is Ecommerce?

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.

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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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facebook

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Facebook Marketing and Business

What can Facebook do for me?
I should start out by saying, Facebook is the biggest, fastest and most popular social media tool in today. It overtook MySpace, which had been around before and will keep overtaking any newer social media networks.
It is a great way to keep in touch with long lost friends or family. As of July 15, 2009, "Facebook is now connecting 250 million people around the world", Mark Zuckerberg said.

Today on Facebook, you can advertise nearly anything. From Businesses to Cars.
People can find businesses via Facebook:
Things you can do;

• Talk about it 
• discuss topics
• play games
• tag your people or services (including your business)
• like it
• see places (locations)
• poke people
• share comments, posts, music, videos, questions, photos 
• and many more things...

How to make a facebook page?
Go to www.facebook.com, sign in or create a new account then and there.
Visit our Website Design Facebook page

Why you should i make a business page?

• anyone can view your Facebook page
• Facebook users can become a Fan of your business page
• You can view statistics about your business page through Facebook Insights
• You can run Facebook Ads directly to your business page
• You can send an update to all of your Facebook Fans
• You can stream your Facebook page directly through your website
• Facebook users can become Fans directly from your website
• You can get more than 5,000 fans on your business profile. (on personal profiles you can only have a maximum of 5,000 friends.

What is the 'Facebook Like Button'?
The Facebook Like button, is used throughout Facebook. If you like something, you can simply click the 'Like Button' and you will give a positive recommendation to whatever you have 'Liked'.
Where can it be found?

• Facebook Status Updates
• Facebook Comments
• Facebook Business Pages
• Any Website links
• Web pages

What is the 'Facebook Wall'?

All Facebook pages, including your Facebook Business Page, have a location, known as a 'Wall'. The Wall is the page that people land on when viewing your Business Page or Personal page. It can also be directed to via the left side navigation. The Wall is used to share information with other Facebook fans.
It is mainly where all the interactivity is. It also includes 'Status Updates'.

What are 'Status Updates'?

Is the information posted on your wall, to share live to everyone that views your page and to other friends or fans.
*Always make sure you share post on your business page if its for your business, otherwise you could be on your personal page.
Once written what you want to share. Click the 'Share button' and your status update will be posted below, and in to the 'Wall' section of your page.

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Flash vs HTML - Which is better?

Theres always been a battle between the 2. But which is better?

Flash is mainly used for creating animation, with high quality graphics. But when it comes to search engines, its not so great.
HTML on the other hand, isn't at all good for animation, unless you slice up a stream on photos on Photoshop and create a .gif file, but its still not as great a flash animation, as the photo quality is reduced.

Flash 

Pros:

• Supports audio, animation, and advanced interactivity.
• Relatively easy to learn, as it provides a designer-friendly authoring environment. However, it requires a good understanding of computer graphics, and the advanced features require familiarity with programming or scripting techniques.
• Integrates well with other Web technologies.
• Is bandwidth efficient.
• Is widely used. This means that most visitors to a Web page incorporating a Flash animation will be able to view it without downloading and installing the Player application. (In fact, probably 96% of Web users already have Flash Player installed .) 

Cons:

• Encourages design abuse,
• breaks Web fundamentals, and
• distracts from a site's core values.
• This is also why our Website Design doesnt have Flash :)

 HTML 

Pros:

• View able by web browser
• best support of assisting technology
• most accessible solutions when done correctly
• can partially automate compliance checking

Cons:

• cant easily search entire presentation
• requires working knowledge of HTML or HTML editing software.

source: http://www.hyperwrite.com/Articles/showarticle.aspx?id=36 

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CMS and Websites

What is CMS?

Content Management Systems. It is software on the internet, that allows you to control and manage the content within the website you are creating.
You dont need any experience with HTML or programming. just simply use the software and you're creating a website.

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Elegant Web Designs FAQs - Domain and Hosting

Q. What is Domain Names and Web Hosting?

A. A Domain Name is what your website address will be (for example; www.elegantwebdesigns.com.au).
Web Hosting is where your website files will be held, so it can be online and people can access it from that 'Domain Name'.

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