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HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers

HTML5 brings the biggest changes to HTML in years. Web designers now have new techniques, from displaying video and audio natively in HTML, to creating realtime graphics on a web page without a plugin.

This book provides a collection of solutions to all of the most common HTML5 problems. Every solution contains sample code that is production-ready and can be applied to any project.

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How to Build an Ecommerce Web Site

You've got a brilliant idea for selling products online that's been festering in your mind for a long time. This means you need to build an ecommerce web site or online store as others would call it, but have no idea what is involved and how much it is going to cost you.

This article will put your mind at ease as I will try to give you the necessary knowledge for creating, building and promoting your ecommerce store.

Steps involved in building an ecommerce website:

1. Do the necessary online research - you first need to see if your product is in demand. It's no point spending time and money building your ecommerce store only to find out no one is interested in your products.

Enter the keywords or keyword phrases that visitors would use to find your web site in the Overture Suggestion Tool

This will give you a good indication of the number of people that regularly search for that term. If there are no search results, you may want to reconsider what you intend to sell or do more extensive research on other types of keywords that may match your products.

2. Prepare your product information - if you organize your products ahead of time in an excel spreadsheet, it will make it much easier for you (or your web site designer) to add them to the ecommerce web site.

Here are the columns to create in your spreadsheet:

a. product categories and subcategories ie horse supplies-horse boots
b. product options ie sizes, colors
c. product ID number ie SK105
d. product description
e. product image
f. product price
g. shipping calculations
h. tax calculations

3. Open a PayPal account - the paypal shopping cart is one of the easiest payment solutions to integrate with your ecommerce web site. You won't have to bother with a merchant account, payment gateway or shopping cart and signing up for a paypal account is free. Paypal integrates all these services automatically and just charges you a small processing fee for each purchase. You can accept both paypal and credit card payments online. Customers don't even have to open a paypal account to purchase products with their credit card.

There is plenty of online documentation on how to set up your paypal shopping cart should you get stuck.

4. Register a domain name - choose a name that is easy to spell and remember. This makes it easier for the customer to return to your online store without looking it up. You can register a domain name for around $9.00 at Godaddy.com.

5. Select a web host company - here are some features to consider when choosing a web hosting company for your ecommerce web site:

web space
bandwidth
email accounts
autoresponders
site statistics
database (if needed)
fast customer service
reasonably priced

You can view some very affordable web hosting plans here: www.isitebuild.com/hostingplans.htm

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100 Questions to Ask
Before Building a Website

How do you know that you've done everything possible to create a unique, enriching, and successful Web site, particularly when you're hiring others to do it? With Website Design and Development, you'll feel confident that you’ve exhausted every facet of building a Web site.

The clever question-and-answer format walks you through easily overlooked details, acting as a virtual consultant. You’ll get clear, easy-to-follow advice on everything from finding a host, design and layout, creating content, marketing, to staying secure.

Each question features a rating as to how critical it is to the welfare of the site, allowing you to pick and choose where to spend your time and money, and the answers contain helpful illustrations as well as action points.

• Features an accompanying video that offers additional examples, commentary, and advice for each question.

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