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Establishing Your Own e-Business WebsiteBy: Niko Atmadja

Establishing Your Own e-Business Website

On this topic you will learn about: The benefit of having your own e–

business website How to check and register your

domain name How to choose Web Hosting

Provider How to choose and deploy open-

source e-commerce software on your website

Establishing Your Own e-Business Website

On this topic you will learn about: How to work with the graphics How to make use free video

streaming provider such as YouTube to store your products video and display it on your website.

Using Yahoo Messenger to provide support/help to your customer.

Meet James

Meet James the T-shirt Designer

Name : James

Age : 28

Business : T-shirt Designer

In Business : 5 years

Employees : 2

Needs : E-commerce website to promote and sell his product online

The benefit of having your own e–business website

Take control of everything in your e-commerce system.

Build your own brand name Customize to your needs

The Costs

Setup cost Domain Name Web Hosting Provider Web Development / E-commerce

shopping cart Maintenance cost

Domain Name Web Hosting Provider

Register Domain Name

Get Web Hosting Provider

Install Shopping Cart App.

Adding Product

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Domain Name

Check available domain name at: www.allwhois.com

Register your domain name

Domain Name

12 October 2007, WallStreet.com was sold for US$3million

Web Hosting Provider

What you need to know about web hosting provider: Reliability Technical support Hosting Features Security Cost

Web Hosting Provider

Features Web Hosting Provider

CBN Centrin RumahWeb

Capacity ( MB ) 50 20 120

Monthly Fee ( USD ) 25 20 5

PHP Support Yes Yes Yes

FTP Access Yes Yes Yes

24 Hours Support Yes Yes Yes

Daily Server Backup Yes Yes Yes

Monitoring Traffic Access

Yes Yes Yes

Online Technical Support

Yes Yes Yes

Web Statistic Yes Yes Yes

Shopping Cart Application

Yes No Yes

E-commerce Software (Open Source)

osCommerce How to Install?

E-commerce Software (Open Source)

CPanel

Fantastico

osCommerce

The Costs

Yearly fee (USD) Setup fee (USD)

Domain Name 10 10

Web Hosting25/mo x 12 =

30015

E-Commerce Software

0 0

TOTAL 310 25

osCommerce Main Page

Adding a Product

Go to Admin page: http://yourdomain.com/admin

Adding a Product

Click on Catalog, then ‘new product’ button.

Adding a Product

Fill in all required fields and click Preview, then click Update to save your product.

Meet James

Working with Graphics

James now already running his online shop open. Some customers already buy t-shirt from his shop.

But sometimes he receive complain from customer saying that what they get is not the same as it displayed on the web page.

James realized that some pictures are too small so customer cannot see the detail. Some pictures are too dark because he took the pictures under low light environment.

Why graphics important? You can see, but you cannot

touch and feel. Consumer expectation of the

purchased product.

Image taken from: http://www.antiquealive.com

Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Using MS Office Picture Manager to: Adjust Brightness or Contrast

before after

Crop Image

Picture, Crop. Crop the image, when you finish click Ok.

before after

Compress Picture

File, Export, JPEG Options, select a custom compression setting.

Change the value to 70.

Meet James

Meet James the T-shirt Designer

One day James browses the Internet to see other competitor’s website, he saw that other website display their products as videos.

James think if he can display his t-shirts using video, customer can see 360 degrees view of the product, he can also add voice to the video. It will make the product more alive.

Creating Product’s Video and host it in YouTube.com

How to: Take the product’s video using mobile

phone camera. Download the video from your mobile phone to the computer.

Creating Product’s Video and host it in YouTube.com

Sign Up with YouTube.com

Creating Product’s Video and host it in YouTube.com

Upload your video

Embed YouTube Video in Your Website

Open MyVideos

Embed YouTube Video in Your Website

The Code:

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RuP8f_OAcbY&rel=0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&border=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RuP8f_OAcbY&rel=0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

osCommerce Product Edit Page

Meet James

Support/Help Desk

To serve his customer better, James using Instant Messaging software to chat with his customers. He uses Yahoo Messenger (YM). He put his ID on the website, so customer can chat with him via YM. If customer want to talk with him, the customer need to add James ID to his YM.

But sometimes, customers found difficulties in knowing whether James online or not. James needs to put his YM status on his online shop.

Showing Yahoo Messenger status in osCommerce

Get the Yahoo Presence HTML code: http://messenger.yahoo.com/addpresence.php

Showing Yahoo Messenger status in osCommerce

Paste the code into osCommerce main page

Showing Yahoo Messenger status in osCommerce

Showing Yahoo Messenger status in osCommerce

Conclusion

Establishing your own e-commerce website doesn’t need to be expensive. With US$25 for setup cost and US$310 for yearly cost, you can have your own e-commerce website. We also can use what are free from the Internet such as YouTube to display your product’s video, use Yahoo Messenger to give support/help desk to your customers online.

Thank You

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