Hi all.

 

I'm just a little confused, please go easy as this may seem like a total novice question, which I am.

On a website, when you enter the website, what part of it is the shopping cart and what part is the website. By that I mean, if I am looking at a website and browsing through it, what is the cart(software) and what is the actual designed website?

 

So how far would you actually design a website. Would it be colours, header, footer, policy's and terms, and like links to product pages and then the actual products and information of products i.e. Price, details, delivery are part of the shopping cart?

 

I hope someone can help me clear this up.

Any further info on this topic would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

In online marketing, a shopping cart is a piece of e-commerce software on a web server that allows visitors to an Internet site to select items for eventual purchase

 

you need to know html.css,javascript,php,mysql to make such software

 

you need to install a webserver on your pc like wamp or xampp to install such software on your pc or you can buy a domain and hosting space and host it so that anyone can see your shopping cart

 

you can check some free opensource ecommerce softwares like opencart,tomato cart,zencart to give you an idea

Edited May 2, 201412 yr by sash_oo7

Hi,

 

Essentially there are two types of websites. One is static websites which can be made of just html, css and javascript and the other are often referred to as 'dynamic' websites. A dynamic website is where it uses a database (usually MySQL or MSSQL) and server side language (such as php or aspx). These dynamic sites will generally store and call information from the database, so things like a login will check if a user exists in the database with the password entered and if so then let them in. An e-commerce shop is the same, it's just a database which allows users to view items and click to purchase in a stored session which is your shopping cart.

 

In both cases the web designer (often called a front end designer) will design and code the html, css and javascript. These are the headers and buttons you see plus the layout of product information if it's to become a dynamic site. A web developer (sometimes called back end) will then create the database and write the server side code which goes to the database to retrieve the product information and add it to the page which was designed by the web designer.

 

I hope this helps.

 

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