Summary

Electronic commerce over the Internet is predicted to grow at an ever-increasing rate over the next few years. Many companies are beginning to investigate the feasibility of using this new sales channel, and many retailers have now established online sales sites. This market is expected to really explode in the next few years as more retailers jump onto the Internet commerce bandwagon.

With the preceding in mind, this chapter has sucessfully traced the development of a commerce site through the different stages from planning to implementation. It provided an introduction to developing commerce sites.

Finally, the chapter showed how to build a basic commerce site from scratch. Following the suggested methodology, the chapter showed you how to go through the stages in the development of a commerce site. After reading this chapter, you should now have a fairly good idea of how to develop a commerce site.