How to Design Your own Ecommerce Web Site - and You're a Designer!

A Home Business Article Contributed by Marsha Maung

How to Design Your own Ecommerce Web Site - and You're a Designer!

You're a web site designer and you need an ecommerce web site running fast. You want to sell your ebooks on designing, web site templates, writing services...etc. You want to capture the online purchasing market as quickly as possible because you've been designing web sites for everyone but yourself.

A short conversation and survey with other web site designers like yourself will be a consolation to you. You will discover that most web site designers have no problem designing complicated ecommerce web sites for everyone but they have huge problems designing their own site. They normally have problems deciding where to start, how to do it, what to include, the direction, the style and the systems to use for their own web sites. Isn't this an amazing AND uncanny fact?

If it's easy for a writer to write their own book, why can't it be easy for web site designers to design their own ecommerce web site?

An Interview with the Ecommerce Web Site Designer

Yes, an interview with you. Pose the kind of questions you would pose to a client to yourself. For instance, a simple question of 'what do you want? ' and then 'what's the purpose of the ecommerce web site? ' and then 'How extensive should the website be? ' and of course 'When do you want it done? '.

Once you've answered the above questions yourself, you should have a pretty clear idea about how your ecommerce website should look like. After all, with all the information now, there shouldn't be a problem on direction and time line. You're a web site designer, remember?

The Web Site Designer Still Hoping to Have own Ecommerce Web Site

This category of web designer does not even have their own domain name yet. These designers are still hunting for a good domain name to book and sitting on their laurels about the design of their ecommerce web site. Start looking around other competitor sites to decide what kind of web site you would like to have. There should be a general idea about how your web site should be like and the kind of services and products you would like to offer through that web site.

Also, observe the following: How fancy were the competitor website? Did it impress you or turn you off? Did they load quickly or did you have to wait aeons for it to load? Was there lots of content in the websites? How different are you compared to your competitors and what is your competitive advantage?

The Designer with an Existing Ecommerce Web Site

If you already have your own web site and it currently is running efficiently, maybe you should take a look at it yourself and take note of the things you like and don't like about your current web site design. If you still cannot decide on the elements you wished to change for your web site, ask your friends, family, relatives, clients or any other third party to check your website out and give you their feedback and comments.

Their neutral and sometimes forthright comments may give you something new to look at and eventually, it will help you develop a more better ecommerce web site for yourself.