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This Week's Article: Three Ways a CMS Helps in e-commerce

There are three direct ways that a content management system add-on can help you develop your e-commerce website. This article is going to list those three things and explain how they affect online transactions. Developing an e-commerce website can be a very tricky task. There are many different aspects to the process and each is equally necessary. The major components of an e-commerce process are the inventory catalog, the shopping cart, and the checkout procedure. Designing any of these components is usually time-consuming, and for someone with limited or nonexistent programming skills it can be next to impossible. This is where the content management system (CMS) comes in. Using a CMS makes website development much, much easier across the board. Installing an e-commerce add-on to your CMS essentially does all the programming work for you. Now instead of spending your time trying to figure out how to create the components you can spend it tweaking an existing system. This brings us to the three most important things that a CMS e-commerce add-on provides. Keep in mind these might not be included in all e-commerce add-ons. However, if one doesn't include these features, it's probably best to keep looking until you find one that does. Not only because they're necessary, but also because there are so many different add-ons to choose from that there's no reason why you should settle for one without these three features.

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Web Hosting Benefits Of A Dedicated Server

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Hosting your web sites on your own dedicated server may seem a little expensive in comparison to shared web hosting, but the end result is more advantageous. Shared web hosting, no matter how well managed, cannot be 100% reliable and stable. However if you have your own dedicated server you can manage to avoid most of the variables affecting the reliability and stability of a server, commonly experienced by shared hosting accounts; variables such as: overload, bad codes and scripts from other users (especially beginners); and, too many applications and components uploaded, and so on.

On a dedicated server you will install only software and applications you want to use, while on a shared hosting server you will find a host of other software and applications installed for other users.

By the very nature of the account, a dedicated server: reduces your dependency on the web host; and bypasses time delays and possible expenses incurred from these. With dedicated server hosting you can provide instant support to your own clients whenever required, which is not possible if you are on a shared server. A reliable and fast support service is vital for your own business growth just like the stability and reliability you wish for your own website. In business, reliability is reflected through word-of-mouth as one of the most effective promotional activities.

For people with clients, such as Graphic Designers and Web Designers a dedicated server is invaluable. A dedicated server will bring extra income into the studio, not just as a hosting facility, but, as a designer knows only too well, for the extra ‘bread and butter’ income value. If you have 24hour access to your own dedicated server then you can adjust, correct or update a clients website in minutes, allowing you to keep the dollar back in your studio and not in someone else’s. Ready availability results in reduced labor costs for the client, but higher studio-income frequency for the designer. Hence you will see the return of all your regular offline clients, bringing their web work with them.

The need for a dedicated server to your average shared server user is realized when stats tell you: how quickly people left your site because it was taking too much time to download; or how many daily visitors you are down by, because your site was not up. The true negative is the worry of how many lost visitors could have been your future paying-customers. The loss could easily equal the value of the upgrade to a Dedicated Server!

For a business, a website that is quickly downloadable and up all the time gives the visitor encouragement that your service is just as reliable, hence you will be more likely to make a sale. It will also enhance the company’s image and encourage existing customers to refer your service to others. This will result in more sales for less promotion.

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Updated: March 25, 2009 21:03