Thursday, March 19, 2009
Oscommerce
To be honest, before I saw the words oscommerce hosting in the Google search results when looking something else up, I had no idea what it meant and I had never seen them before. So I was curious to learn what oscommerce was and I looked it up online (I am definitely terrible at computers but I have gotten really great with googling info! Ha)
Oscommerce hosting allows people and businesses to create both small and large ecommerce websites. There is even a website with the top sites on it. The website is great because all on one site you can compare ten different hosts as well as their prices, web space, traffic, domain name, and even read reviews from other people that have used or visited. On this particular website most of the reviews are great ones because they only have the top ten sites listed. But when you go to other sites you can find people negatively reviewing them which is good because you can get honesty about the product that not all companies will give you before you put your time and maybe money into it.
My favorite part though when I was looking into the oscommerce hosts was the part with the templates. There are websites full of oscommerce templates that people can use for their businesses or companies website. Some of them are really plain and more businesslike and appropriate and others are fun and colorful. They serve for a large number of clients and some are even custom made like ones for computer companies or jewelry stores. It is interesting to see how the templates that are given on the website for certain things like jewelry really do look like a lot of the websites that jewelry stores have.
Overall though these websites can help you research into different hosts and templates and decide which the best is for you and your companies and which fits your needs the best. You need to decide what your company is looking for in a website (serious, playful, funny, and professional) and then go from there. But thankfully we live in a day and age where you can do basically everything online with just a couple of clicks with the mouse so it shouldn't be too hard and after seeing all of the cool templates it kind of sounds like a little bit of fun too!
Mike @ 2:22 PM