Creating a professional website can be challenging. E-commerce web design is really a complex animal. To cut development time, many web hosting companies start offering web hosting templates or hosting with templates.
Whether you're looking for a simple web site or a functional e-commerce website, the chances are that you may be able to find a few web templates from your hosting company. A simple web template may cost under $20 dollars, but a well-designed professional e-commerce website will cost a few hundreds or more if not thousands. The cost of web templates is still cheap comparing to custom-made e-commerce websites when Web designers charge anywhere from $20 to $100 per hour. If you want to check out some templates, go to www.templates box.com
Besides the requirements of standard web hosting plans, Web hosting templates for e-commerce operations needs a shopping cart that supports on-line catalog and on-line payment processing (here’s a clue, pick Pay Pal). Web templates for e-commerce often include common pages and navigation's for on-line shopping - searching or browsing products, adding items to shopping carts and making payment. The web templates for e-commerce do not include or connect to any specific shopping cart. It's up to the webmasters to add shopping cart to the site.
The alternative e-commerce hosting to web templates is e-commerce turnkey solution. EBay Stores, Yahoo! and Go-Daddy.com are the most popular turn-key e-commerce solutions for small businesses that want to setup on-line stores easily. Different hosting plans may have different free structures. The cost of each hosting plan often varies on transaction volume.
When comparing functionality, there're many questions to ask: 1) whether a shopping cart accepts on-line check or debit card. 2) Whether there's a limit on the number of products and categories that you can setup; 3) whether it automatically sends out an email notification once an order is placed at your web-site.
When looking at the cost of commerce operation, you'll need to ask questions about 1) what's the basic monthly fee for transactions; 2) is there's a setup fee for a new on-line store; 3) how about handling taxes?; 4) how much it charges for each transaction.
Talk with your hosting service on e-commerce issues and discuss the best plan to go with.
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