CMS for your website

Posted on July 15, 2010 by admin

CMS is a system  that will allow different people to create, edit and manage content on a website. The participants in the system need very littel technical skill or know-how. The systems makes it esy for people of varying technical expertise to work on the same website.

On your SB Biz Hosting control panel you will see several CMS under the CGI Scripts box.

 

These include:

1. WordPress – the most popular and user friendly blogging platform.

2. Joomla - is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

3. Drupal - is a software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website.

4. Mambo - is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Continue reading for a detailed feature list.

5. Typo3 - is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.

There are hundreds of open source CMS available on the web, however, you will need some technical expertise to install them on your website. SB Biz Hosting  has made this easy for it’s customers by providing 1-click installation from the control panel. Once installed, all you need to do is configure the system to your need.

If you would like to see a demo and try out the different open-source CMS, available on the web before choosing one for your website, click here.

Have fun!

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Starting an e-commerce website

Posted on July 12, 2010 by admin

What is an e-commerce website?

E-commerce websites can also go by the names: online store, web store, shopping cart etc.

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, or e-business consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. (Wikipedia)

SB Biz hosting packages come with pre-installed shopping carts (see image below) to help you easily build an e-commerce website. You don’t need to employ a web developer to do this. Configuring the shopping carts, once you have installed it, is easy and requires very litte or no coding knowledge.

The shopping cart will allow you to upload images of your products, set price, give special offers and many more features. You need to research a little before you choose the appropriate shopping cart that you want for your website. You also need to open an account with an online payment service like Paypal or Google checkout. This will enable you to collect payments through your website.

Starting an e-commerce site is not rocket science and can be easily done with a little patience and researching. You won’t need to spend hundreds of pounds to employ a web developer to do it. Get a hosting package that has e-commerce shopping carts pre-installed and you are ready to do business.

Here is a blog post titled ’6 essentials of a successful e-commerce website’. This post gives 6 main recommendations to make your e-commerce site successful. I found it very informative and useful.

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