The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Making Website for Small Retailer
1. Get Your Domain Name
The first thing you need to do before anything else is to get yourself a domain name. A domain name is the name you want to give to your website. To get a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrate for the right to use that name. Getting a name does not get you a website or anything like that. It's just a name. It's sort of like registering a business name in the brick-and-mortar world; having that business name does not mean that you also have the shop premises to go with the name.
2. Choose a Web Host and Sign Up for an Account
A web host is basically a company that has many computers connected to the Internet. When you place your web pages on their computers, everyone in the world will be able to connect to it and view them. You will need to sign up for an account with a web host so that your website has a home. If getting a domain name is analogous to getting a business name in the brick-and-mortar world, getting a web hosting account is analogous to renting office premises for your business.
3. Designing your Web Pages
Once you have your domain name and web host, your next step will be to design the web site itself. Although there are many considerations in web design, as a beginner, your first step is to actually get something out onto the web. The fine-tuning can come after you've figured out how to get a basic web page onto your site. One way is to use a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") web editor to do it. Such editors allow you to design your site visually, without having to muck around with the technical details..
If you prefer to use free software, you can find a complete tutorial on using KompoZer, a free WYSIWYG web editorThere are many other web design software around. If you prefer not to use either of the above, you can find some others listed on thefreecountry.com's Free HTML Editors and WYSIWYG Web Editors page.
4. Testing Your Website
Although I list this step separately, this should be done throughout your web design cycle. I list it separately to give it a little more prominence, since too few new webmasters actually perform this step adequately.
You will need to test your web pages as you design them in the major browsers: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6, the latest versions ofFirefox, Opera and Safari. Since all these browsers are free anyway, it should not be any hardship to get them and install them. The trick however, is testing with two versions of Internet Explorer since the later version will overwrite the earlier.
5. Collecting Credit Card Information, Making Money
If you are selling products or services, you will need some way to collect credit card information.
6. Getting Your Site Noticed
When your site is ready, you will need to submit your site to the search engines, particularly Google. You can find the Google submission page by clicking on the "About Google" link on Google, and then locating the "Submit your content to Google" link on the page that appears. However, submitting your site to Google alone is, quite frankly, a pointless endeavour. If there are no other links to your site on the web, Google will be appear most reluctant to index your site and show results that include your pages. If there are many other links to your site, you don't even have to bother to submit it to Google - it will find your site by itself.
This is where promoting your website is important. This involves many things, including the usual way people did things before the Internet: advertisements in the newspapers, word-of-mouth, etc. You might want to consider advertising on places like Yahoo! (which puts your ads on Yahoo!, AltaVista and CNN), 
Ask (which puts your ads on Ask, Excite, Match.com, Gifts.com, etc) or Google.
Source: www. thesitewizard.com
Main issue | Detail |
Which types of e-business applications do we develop? | CRM, online ordering and e payment |
Which technologies do we use? | Email and web based ordering |
How do we achieve quality of service in applications? | Security, Reliability, Speed |
Where do we host applications? | Local and international hosting (.com, .net) |
Application integration | B2B exchanges and intermediaries |
Which access platforms do we support? | Mobile access |
Which development technologies and standards do we use? | HTML and PHP |
How do we manage content and data quality? | Control by our self as an owner but for daily operation, we can assign our human resources |
How do we manage employee access to the Internet? | Block another website that not related to our job by password |
How do we secure data? | Using 2 server and manual backup |
