What is ECommerce? – ECommerce or electronic commerce is the buying or selling of goods or services utilizing some form of electronic system such as the internet or other computer network. What this means is that a whole new exciting way to both increase the amount of exposure your business has in the market-place, and a way to facilitate your ability to expand your business into just about any part of the world you wish, much faster and easier than it could have ever been before, is now available. The internet has revolutionized the way the entire world does business. Before the internet most small to medium sized business’ focused primarily on regional and local markets within a certain proximty to their physical location. It was just logistically difficult and very costly to effectively market a business the farther you moved away from the physical address of the home office. Today, this is changing rapidly because of the intetnet. More and more, people are no longer concerned with how far away the company they do business with may be located. The biggest concern now is quality goods and services offered at a good price and excellent customer service. This means that those business’ that do not move into this new arena are going to be left behind and the ones that move forward now are going to be that much better prepared for the future.
Joomla & VirtueMart – We have examined many different ECommerce, CMS, and Shopping Cart systems and after much testing and evaluation we have chosen to use Joomla with the VirtueMart Extension because the flexibilty and features were unbeatable. Together these products allow the creation and design of the perfect online store for any application.
I own a Computer Repair and Data Recovery business in San Antonio, TX. I spent 10 years in database development. I am now also providing Website Development, Hosting, and SEO services. We use the Joomla CMS. Altogether I have been involved in computer programming for over 30 years. I was a self-taught programmer back when the ‘Atari 800′ was all the rage! I had an atari 800 with 16 kilobytes of ram and a 6502 8-bit processor that ran at 1.7 MHz, no hard drive and a 5 1/4 inch floppy fisk that stored just 180 Kilobytes of data. Of course there was no internet but we had the dial in bulletin boards that we connected to at 300 baud. lol.
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