Q: There
are a lot of companies that offer do-it-yourself
web sites with shopping carts. Yahoo, for instance,
and they're a lot cheaper to set up than a company
like Creative Web Designing. Isn't that a good way
to save money? ANSWER
Q: I've heard the
Internet referred to as a "gold rush." Is it
really that easy to make a lot of money with a web site? ANSWER
Q: Do you provide
the merchant account for processing credit card transactions? ANSWER
Q: How does the
credit card processing work? Does the shopping cart do
the credit card processing automatically, or do we have
to do that manually? ANSWER
Q: I hear a lot
about security, for instance credit card numbers getting
stolen. Will that be a problem?
Why do my pictures in my online store load slow? ANSWER
Q: Why
do my pictures in my online store load slow? ANSWER
Q: There
are a lot of companies that offer do-it-yourself
web sites with shopping carts. Yahoo, for instance,
and they're a lot cheaper to set up than a company
like Creative Web Designing. Isn't that a good way
to save money?
A: You're
right, they are CHEAP, and the results you'll get
will reflect that. There are a lot of reasons why
we don't endorse or support these services:
Most of them make it difficult, if not impossible, to do what needs to be done
for search engines. Without the search engines, you might as well not even
bother.
These services use templates, and you are limited to whatever those templates
allow. Furthermore, you will have to fit your product information into their
structure, as opposed to having the structure fit to your needs the way we
do.
Updating product information is usually cumbersome and time-consuming. We make
it easier and quicker for you to manage your product information.
While these companies might provide information about promoting your web site
(a lot of it is useless), it's not the same as having a consultant working
with you to get the most out of your investment.
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Q: I've
heard the Internet referred to as a "gold rush." Is
it really that easy to make a lot of money with a
web site?
A: No,
it's not that easy. Starting an Internet business is
just like starting a brick-and-mortar business. It takes
time, money, and effort to build it, and help it grow.
That doesn't happen overnight. We have clients making
a lot of money with their e-commerce sites, but they
didn't get there immediately.
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Q: Do
you provide the merchant account for processing credit
card transactions?
A: Yes,
we are now offering merchant services. Please
click here!
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Q: How
does the credit card processing work? Does the shopping
cart do the credit card processing automatically,
or do we have to do that manually?
A: Actually,
the choice is yours. You can be set up to authorize
and settle transactions automatically, authorize
automatically and settle manually, or authorize and
settle transactions manually. Whatever works best
for you.
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Q: I
hear a lot about security, for instance credit card
numbers getting stolen. Will that be a problem?
A: No.
We do not store credit card information online. That
information is stored on your local computer.
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Q: Why
do my pictures in my online store load slow?
A: It
doesn't matter if your emailing photos of your grandson
or putting images of your latest product on your online
store. Too many people don't consider optimizing their
photos for the web. We've all been on too many web pages
where it seemed that the photos would never load, and
sometimes they didn't. So here are some steps to make
sure that your photos show up on your site.
1. Always have a back up original format copy of your image. Never alter the
original. Believe me you will regret it.
2. Crop to size. Make sure that you crop
out any extra information that isn't needed. Remember
the larger the photo the longer it takes to load or
send.
3. Resize to reduce pixels. There should
be an option to resize according to pixels. You're
going to want the largest size to be no more than 250
pixels or you can reduce the dpi to no more than 96.
4. Reduce the color palette. Many images
have millions of colors so the first thing that you
need to do is reduce the colors to 256. You will lose
some depth with this.
5. Save the file in a standard format.
JPEG is the most common for photos and you can compress
the image with a JPEG for further reduction in file
size. It's not unusual to see GIF or PNG as well.
Remember that with a 56k connection a
150k file will take 20 seconds to load. If you're creating
a web page every photo that you add will add to the
time it takes to download all of the images. If you
keep the images small in size the smaller resolution
will not be as obvious.
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Q: How
do I back up my site?
A: Please
follow the instructions below.
1. Login to your Control Panel
2. Scroll over "Tools"
3. Select Database Backup
4. Click on Backup (this step may take several minutes)
5. Select No Compression
6. Then click backup again
7. You should see your backup
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