Chapter 2: E-Commerce Site

In This Chapter

check.png Assessing needs

check.png Designing the site

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Author and web designer, Janine Warner is a busy lady. She writes books about web design, teaches web design, and designs websites. She has two websites: one to promote her speaking and writing, and another site that she uses to sell books and videos. In this chapter, we feature the site she uses to sell products. Ms. Warner is the author of more than a dozen books on web design and the presenter of more than 50 hours of video training. We discuss her e-commerce site in this chapter.

Assessing Needs

When Janine decided to create a website to promote and sell products, such as training DVDs, she had to find a reliable hosting service with lots of features. The hosting service she chose enables her to add features like blogs without having to create databases or upload software. In addition, the hosting service features unlimited bandwidth and economical pricing.

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