An e-commerce site is a great way to introduce new products to your customers. If you have a physical shop it will make your business look more professional. Moreover, e-commerce sites are great for home based businesses.

What is a e-commerce site?

An e-commerce site enables you to sell products online. it incudes a shopping car as well as payment processing services such as Stripe and Paypal. This type of site can be time consuming to set up and I will do all of that for you.

What is included?

Pages included

• Home
• About
• Contact
• Product page
• 10 products to get you started (your provide the images)

Other features

• A quality WordPress theme
• A full Woo-commerce installation
• Included UK Domain name and 12 months of hosting
• A company email address
• Online contact form
• Location Map
• Social media integration
• Admin panel
• Personal service

Jargon buster

Often web designers assume more knowledge from the public than they should, below is a guide to some of the terms you may hear.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is the world’s most popular web based platform, used by thousands of businesses throughout the world. There are thousands of plugins that make it infinitely expandable. Moreover, it is easy for users to add content at any time.#

What is Woo-Commerce?

Woo-commerce is the world’s most popular e-commerce solution. It is used by millions of sites and is easy to use. products can be added easily and it has full shopping cart functionality.

What is an Admin panel?

In WordPress the admin panel is where the site is managed. You login into it on a specific web address that will be provided once the site is up and running..

What is a domain?

A domain or web address is a unique address that is used to access your site via a web browser, it is in the form www.yousite.co.uk

What is hosting?

Hosting refers to the location where your website is stored on the web. It is also known as a server or “The cloud”. There are many hosting providers and they usually charge monthly or annually.

The things that others don’t mention

Running costs

There are regular costs involved in owning and running a website. The main ones being Domain name renewal, every two years, and hosting costs. For more sophisticated sites you may also also have to pay for software licences. For example, paid plugins often have annual charges. However the £69.99 charge, here, will keep you up and running for 12 months and your only costs after that, will be domain renewal and hosting. I will keep you informed when these are due.

What I need from you

Initially I only need four things:

• The name of the business
• Any logos you want to use
• The content for the pages
• Any images you want to use

Your site will be up and running in five days

Get online today! A service By Geoffrey Whittaker BSc MA

email Geoff@electronincantation.co.uk