how to create online shopping website.. ??

[Jigar A. Thakor]

how to create online shopping website.. ?? any architecture ??
How to design any guidlines ? and what is verisign ?? other secure
protection needed ??
i want to develop in C#,Asp.net,Sql Server...

 

[Champika Nirosh]

how to create online shopping website.. ??

You have to get the requirement first and then program it.. )

- You may start with the Enterprise Samples available inside visual studio
application folder to get some idea about general app development.
- Then you may refer to http://sourceforge.net/ or any other open source
development center to find some simlar type of application to get you
understand the scope ..

any architecture ??
Very difficult to say.. it depend on the requirement.. at highlevel breaking
your system in to two modules would be better for later expansions.. i.e.
ASPX.NET and Webservice
If you are a beginer and want to get a basic understanding of how to break
your system, then you may refer to
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/System_Design.asp

How to design any guidlines ?
May help the same site

and what is verisign ??
A product that can be use to handle online payment..

other secure protection needed ??
Again depend on the requirement and what you going to sell online etc..
if they are book then the way you need to protect them very from the
publisher, and if they are consumer goods then a good payment gateway will
do the trick.. etc

Nirosh.

 

[Guest]

how to create online shopping website.. ?? any architecture ??
How to design any guidlines ? and what is verisign ?? other secure
protection needed ??
i want to develop in C#,Asp.net,Sql Server...

Microsoft has a IBuySpy QuickStart Shopping Site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/dnanchor/html/anch_entdevapparchsamp.asp

 

[Daniel]

Hey

I made a ecommerce site from scratch in asp, just converted it to .net. Too
much to say so i wont bother but on a quick glance of the other answer i did
see this:

"and what is verisign ??
A product that can be use to handle online payment.."

Incredibly innacurate and confusing statement. he makes it sound like a
paying system. It isnt. Verisign, like thawte and other such companies
provide SSL certificates (if you don't knwo what these are look them up, you
will need one). They are recognised companies that will charge you a fair
price to check your company is legit and approve you, on doing so they give
you an SSL certificate. You then load this onto your website and with it you
can place their logo onyour site.

That SSL cert allows your site to use https links, ssl encrypted links,
which you will need to pass over sensitive info such as basket price etc. to
the payment system you use.

Thats all they do. So saying it is a 'product that handles an online
payment' is as i hope you now understand, VERY misleading. It's a company
not a product, it PROVIDES SSL signed certificates that allows you to use
secure communication - this doesnt need to be for payments, could be a
sensitive account area for example... but for payments you would use https
also. In fact the more i read that line the more concerned i get that a guy
who just advised you couldn't understand a way to describe the most key
element to an ecommerce site. Thankfully he just gave you links and 'google'
it responses so you should be ok.

You don't need a verisign cert, there are a lot of companies that offer
these, look for the best price. Some servers you can get use shared SSL
certs if it is a shared hosting and you pay a 'rent' if you like for the
ssl, allowing you to use ssl communication but you wont get the seal.
Nowadays these seals seem to mean less and less as people generally
understand the https or just assume its safe lol. Either way when i made
mine it was for a large retail so i bought the verisign one (one of the more
pricier ones i should add but most well recognised) but i did this purely as
we could afford it and we had a corporate image to maintain.

I hope that helps explain or give a starting to block to just 1 element of
an ecommerce site.

There is also a good one i have seen if you want open source and dont want
to go the whole hog as i did which is oscommerce, look it up. Open source
and i worked for a guy who used this, seems decent. He knew nothing about
coding apart from what appeared to be absolute basics, and he managed to
customise and use this and run a business with it. So i would assume it's
easy to learn and adapt.

Take care

 

[Ali Prior]

There is also a good one i have seen if you want open source and dont want

to go the whole hog as i did which is oscommerce, look it up. Open source
and i worked for a guy who used this, seems decent. He knew nothing about
coding apart from what appeared to be absolute basics, and he managed to
customise and use this and run a business with it. So i would assume it's
easy to learn and adapt.

I can also recommend osCommerce. It's very flexible and best of all
free.
You can spend as much or as little time modifying it as you like
depending on your requirements and skills - we've modified around 200
osCommerce stores for clients

Ali
www.vengavenga.com
Online stores