Ecommerce  Web Design

E commerce (or electronic commerce) is a phenomenon that has revolutionised how businesses operate. Ecommerce has paved the way for producers of goods and services to access markets in countries and regions, which would otherwise be impossible. eCommerce has helped businesses be visible to a global audience at a relatively low cost when compared to other media channels, expanding the horizon of the small people.

The Market place for e commerce is mostly the Internet. ECommerce is; distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over the Internet or through any other computer networks. The IT industry might define e commerce as an electronic business application targeted for commercial transactions. Considering the latter, e commerce activities will expand to include electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, e-marketing, online marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), automated inventory management systems and automated data collection systems. Ecommerce rely mostly on communications technology of the World Wide Web and at the same time it cannot exist without other computer technologies such as databases, and e-mail. All these Ecommerceactivities will have to be supported by non-computer technologies such as transportation, for the actual goods sold via e commerce.

According to Person Halls book on e commerce, the origins of e commerce dates back to 1994 with the first banner ad being placed on a website.

Quoting from the October 2006 Forrester Research report entitled, "US e Commerce: Five-Year Forecast And Data Overview, "Nontravel online retail revenues will top the quarter-trillion-dollar mark by 2011. What drives this growth surge is an 8 million (roughly) strong segment of the most active Web shopping households. A group of consumers extremely technology savvy and value convenience above everything else when they want to shop.