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eCommerce

Apart from the usual shopping cart software offerings such as Actinic, osCommerce etc, an alternative approach especially suited to businesses with, or intending to build, their websites in Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Frontpage, Adobe GoLive are ecommerce templates.

These templates provide an extremely powerful fully featured but low cost shopping cart software solution already integrated into the main HTML editors and come in versions for Windows servers and Unix / Linux Servers:

• ASP for Windows servers which requires an Access database and the ability to run .asp pages (active server pages)
• PHP for Unix / Linux servers which requires a minimum of PHP 4.1 installed on the server and a MySQL database.

1. Choose from a selection of pre-designed templates or a generic template to integrate into an existing website design and download.
2. Edit the design in your web editor (Dreamweaver, Frontpage, GoLive etc)
3. Upload to your server and connect to your database
4. Set up your categories and add products using the online admin
5. Select your credit card processor
6. And you're ready to go

Full step-by-step instructions are provided and at prices starting from U$149 we feel this is exceptional value. Although the shopping cart software is extremely full featured there are a number of developers with ranges of additional addons to cater for nearly all requirements (note - this is a good indication of a solid core product otherwise developers would not be wasting their time)