A type of website where business transaction takes place online is an electronic or e-commerce website. Shopping and paying for products and services online are enabled by this type of website. Ebay and Amazon are both e-commerce websites. At present, even small businesses brought their endeavor online, seeking for more consumers. Through the internet, consumers can build a site easily.

Building a website from scratch is not easy, especially when you don't know anything about basic web designing. Before you build a site, you must first have a branded line of products or specific services you offer. Highly influenced by the brand name are consumers' decision to buy a certain product. If you're planning of introducing a new line of product, work hard in making your brand name known, through creating a website which reflects the qualities and nature of the brand. Also, a good e-commerce website design is simple yet catchy, but does not subdue the products. The products serve as the core of your website. You still cannot sell your products if they are not quality products, even if you have an attractive page design.

Easy navigation is another quality of an effective website. Well designed applications and graphics compose easy navigation. E-commerce sites always contain a shopping cart feature. Automatically computing the total amount to be paid (inclusive of charges), and helping the users collect items they want to buy are the functions of the shopping cart. You cannot not find shopping carts in online stores. Consumers are attracted to this feature because it can make shopping much less of a hassle.

How to add a shopping cart to your website? A full page and a mini shopping cart are the two forms of shopping carts. Having its own page is a full page cart, while a mini cart is only a small icon. Both kinds of shopping cart are preferred, but it will be an advantage to use mini shopping carts because it will not outshine the layout of your webpage because it occupies only a small space. On the other hand, if you use a full page cart once you build a site, you can provide more information and options for your user.

Another way to design your shopping cart is a step-by-step process. Sign in, billing and shipping, payment, verify, and edit, are the four steps to design your shopping cart. You can also have another option to link your full page shopping cart through an icon in the homepage. Maximize the space in your homepage through this. However, you have to make sure that the icons are emphasized and will draw the eyes of the user. Use clear font face and size to avoid miscommunication with the consumer in terms of prices.

The verify and edit page is essential for the confirmation of purchase. Checking the items before making the actual purchase is important on the part of the consumer.