Web Developer Foundations: Using XHTML
Second Edition by Terry Felke-Morris
 
Chapter 12 - E-Commerce Overview

E-Commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet. Whether business-to-business, business-to-consumer, or consumer-to-consumer, web sites that support e-commerce seem to be everywhere. This chapter provides an overview of this topic.

Examples Certificate Authorities

Amazon
Sears
eBay

Verisign
Thawte

Demographics & Stats Issues

Cyberatlas
Online Population Study
NUA Net Surveys
E-Commerce Times
NetFactual.com
PEW Internet & American Life Project

Section 508 & Accessibility
Domain Name Dispute Procedures
Automatic Translation
Customized Translation
Customer Relations
Security

Payment Processing Instant Storefronts

Internet Cash
CheckFree
Authorize.Net
PayPal

Yahoo!
Bigstep
FreeMerchant
Earthstores
AACart

Commercial Shopping Carts Free Shopping Cart Scripts

Miva
Mercantec

Aspcode.Net
PerlShop
Extropia

Web Authoring Tool Specific Solutions Other Shopping Cart Solutions

FrontPage
Dreamweaver
JustAddCommerce

PayPal (tutorials)
Mals-E.com

Recent Developments

Google has launched a new payment system called "Checkout" to compete with PayPal. Visit Search EngineWatch for an overview.

Chapter Updates

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