E-Commerce 101: An Introduction to Electronic Commerce

Ten Tips to Help You Jump-Start Your Web Store

Building Your Store

Interested in setting up a Web store? Don’t know where to begin? Then start here with our step-by-step guide! Everything you need to know to start selling on the Web, including all aspects of Web store creation are covered including software selection, effective store design, accepting credit card payments and store promotion.

• Introduction
• Selecting a Location
• Laying the Foundations
• Designing the Store
• Receiving Orders
• Getting Paid
• Keeping It Secure
• Promoting Your Store
• Links
• FAQ

Tenfold

These short articles are some of the most popular items on the site. Each of them contains ten hot tips on a key aspect of electronic commerce. A broad range of topics is covered, from why you should open a Web store in the first place, right through to ways to promote your store once you’ve built it.

• Ten Reasons Why You Should Build Your Web Store NOW
• Ten Tips to Help You Choose a Web Store Location
• Ten Tips to Help You Choose Shopping Cart Software
• Ten Steps to Help you Select an Internet Service Provider
• Ten Tips for Designing a Web Store
• Ten Ways to Accept Orders in Your Web Store
• Ten Ways to Accept Payment in Your Web Store
• Ten Ways to Promote Your Web Store
• Ten Key Resources to Help you Build Your Store
• Ten Tips to Help You Beat Credit Card Fraud
• Ten Tips to Help You Jump-Start Your Web Store

Enabling Technologies

Many Web store merchants understandably want to concentrate their energies on what they do best – selling – and either ignore the technical aspects or leave them for someone else to worry about. This resource takes you “under the hood” to explore the key technologies and explain in a straightforward manner how they are used for Web commerce.

• Introduction
• Encryption Overview
• Secret-Key Encryption
• Public-Key Encryption
• Digital Signatures
• Digital Certificates
• Export Restrictions
• SSL
• SET
• Smart Cards
• Links
• FAQ

External Links

Every external link from this site is gathered here to form probably the most extensive list of Web commerce links available online.

• Building a Store
• Technology
• Miscellaneous

FAQ

If you are new to the world of electronic commerce, these sets of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) will serve as an excellent introduction.

• How Sell It! can help you establish or improve your e-commerce Web site.
• How to build a great e-commerce Web site.
• What the key e-commerce technologies are and how they work.

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