As little as one decade ago an ecommerce site was the domain of techno wizs and coding geniuses. Today the Internet business world is not limited to the technically gifted and motivated. Anyone can build an ecommerce business due to the advent of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors, web building wizards, open source blog and web site platforms, as well as platform like Ebay, Amazon, etc.
A person can build a viable web business without ever understanding how to configure a Mysql database or coding in HTML or PHP. A strong computer background or time needed to learn, is all the skills needed to get started.
Static Pages & Content Management Systems
Static pages are like digital paper. They do not change. They end in .htm, and remain the same until the owner changes the content on them.
A content management system can be as simple as a www.blogger.com or WordPress blog. Or, it can be a complex $10 000 platform that is powerful enough to run 100 000 pages of content. The objective is to create something for the search engines to send their robots to for ranking and traffic generating.
The content should be designed to create...