E-COMMERCE+TEAM+PROJECT+-+part+2+-

How to Register and Create an Ecommerce Web Site on Google Sites By: Alliette Rodriguez James Donlin  Step 1

Browse to sites.google.com

Step 2

Register if you do not have a user name.

Step 3

Log in with your user name and password.

Step 4 Click on “Create site” on the upper right hand side.

Step 5 Follow the steps on creating the site’s name and choosing a theme.

Step 6 After site name and theme is chosen, click on “create site”

Step 7 Click on “Edit page” on the upper right hand corner.

Step 8 Insert website contents, click on “Create page” to add more pages.

Step 9 Test website to ensure all hyperlinks and contents are correctly displayed

Step 10 Promote your website

Pros and cons of hosting yourself or outsourcing:

Pros for hosting yourself   
 * More control over the server in which your website is hosted on
 * No service costs to pay
 * Privacy/date theft

Cons for hosting yourself     
 * Future increase in demand may be limited
 * Cost of maintaining the server
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Increased downtime
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Less redundancy
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Time

Pros for outsourcing hosting <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Cons for outsourcing hosting <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Less vulnerable to downtime because of hardware failure
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Redundancy in power and date networks
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Scalability
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Less personal time to dedicate
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Costs
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Unable to control specific server configurations
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Data security
 * <span style="background-color: #924545; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bandwidth limits