Shopping Carts and Catalog Pages - How to Include Them

Shopping carts don't necessarily have to be features provided by only big sites. As popular as big mall stores are, people still love to shop in small, focused stores.

If you have a business that offers a unique set of products, there's no reason you can't sell your products on your site by using a very simple shopping cart.

Shopping carts can get very complicated because on many sites that provide them, all kinds of complicated features are included in the design.

If you have a small business with a small set of products, there's no reason for this. All you need is a shopping cart that provides these basic features:

• Allows the user to select a product and add it to the cart
• Allows the user to delete items from the cart
• Allows the user to change quantities once an item has been added to the cart
• Allows the user to review all of the items that have been added to the cart
• Allows the user to check out with as few steps as possible

Catalog Pages

Because small websites should be designed to stay small, they don't need to list all products and services (just as long as this is made clear to the customer).

The advantage of this approach is you won't gunk up your site trying to display too much product information and you can have more control of the visual presentation of your production and service information.

Important Points

• Shopping carts don't necessarily have to be features provided by only big sites.
• Instead of setting up an elaborate database that provides information on all of a company's products and services, a smart website can simply include catalog pages the user can download.

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