Making a business website that sells product is bit different than regular websites. You must have a shopping cart in place with reliability and security to perform online transactions. Installation of shopping carts is not a rocket science.

 

Today I will show you how to make an e-commerce website in 3 easy steps.

 

Step1:

 

The first step is to acquire a domain name for your e-commerce website. There are different extensions of domains available online but you should focus on .biz or .com domains for business website.

 

Both domain extensions will cost you approximately $11 to $15 per year. Go to godaddy or name.com and register a domain name for your online venture.

 

For example: wwww . Your product name . Biz , www . cheap service . Com etc.

 

After registration you will be given credentials to control your domain name. Save these credentials as you will need to change the DNS record in next step.

 

Step2:

 

Now you are ready to host your online property. The next step is to purchase a hosting account to make your domain visible on internet world.

 

There are many good and affordable hosts in market. Find an affordable package that includes cpanel and fantastico. Both are excellent tools to install shopping carts and manage website using single user friendly interface. A web hosting account will cost you around $3 to $ 9 per month.

 

I would like to recommend my favorite host ShopaServer.com, one of the best host with excellent affordable services. ShopaServer has an excellent repute in cheap shared hosting, reseller hosting with moneybookers and cheap vps with top notch technical support.

 

 

Go to ShopaServer.com and purchase a hosting account.

 

After successful payment, you will get CPANEL information to control your online store. You will also get a DNS record to add in domain control panel discussed in earlier step. Now login to domain control panel and add the newly given DNS or name server record i.e ns1.clientpanels .com , ns2. Clientpanels .com .

 

 

Step3:

 

The third step is to install Shopping Cart web application. A shopping cart is ta ype of software that provides you easy billing management system to sell products online. Its a complete system to handle transactions, generate bills and send notifications.

 

Some common and popular open-source shopping carts are:

 

ZenCart

CubeCart

Mangento

 

Login to CPANEL and locate the smiley icon of Fantastico. Click on Fantastico and further click on any shopping cart of your choice i.e ZenCart. Installation of shopping cart is very easy. All you need is to fill in the necessary information such as your email address, website title and contact address etc.

 

 

WOW! You are done with your first e-commerce website.

 

Now you can add your products using shopping cart admin panel, set prices and receive payments.

 

Have fun!