In the first article of this three part series you read a brief overview of what's involved in starting an online business, and you read about business checking accounts and domain name registration. The second article explored Web hosting and merchant accounts. Here, in this final article, we look at the design of your site and the implementation of a shopping cart.
Several factors prohibit one from starting an online business.
The mistaken assumption that doing so is costly ranks high on the list. A third factor is the fear that it's too difficult to actually create a Web site. I started my Small Biz Zone site to answer all these concerns and to serve as a resource for non-technical people interested in starting an online business. You can create a business site consisting of dozens of pages full of stylized text, fancy graphics, and Java scripts. However, you certainly don't need to.