"Choosing a product:  The first and most important step is to plan what product or products you wish to sell through your online business.  There are several key rules that you may want to follow in order to make your business profitable.  Strive to sell a product that is in high demand by consumers.  In addition, think of what products are currently popular or what products are in short supply to the public.  You will find that selling a product that is in high demand will result in more traffic to your site and the possibility of more sales.  The next step is to develop your product.  There are millions of products that you can sell; the key is finding the correct one.  Either construct a product yourself, hire a company or contractor to build a product, or the most preferred method, resell merchandise from an existing company."

    A browser is a program that allows you to access the Internet.  Common browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape. A browser translates a programmer’s lines of code (HTML) into a visible graphical user interface (GUI) or what you see (colors and text etc.) when you go to a specific website.   For example, when you go to www.yahoo.com the blue on the right hand corner and the tables are actually produced by lines of programmer’s code or HTML and transformed into a visible GUI or what the web page looks like.  To see the lines of HTML code that creates a specific page on Internet Explorer, open Internet Explorer on your desktop and look at the top area where "File Edit View" resides.  Click on "View" and move your mouse down to "Source."  A Notepad window will pop up and show all of the programmers code (HTML) that creates the current website you are viewing.

    "The paid site requires you to make a significant consummate investment.  You need to register a domain name, buy a hosting service and purchase a shopping cart program (a shopping cart is a program that allows you to sell merchandise online. Further explained in the "types of shopping carts" section.)  The advantages to a paid site are complete customization, a professional presentation to your customers, and no annoying forced advertising.   For example, a paid site would have a domain name like www.buymystuffhere.com, while a free site would have a domain like www.geocities.com/buymystuffhere.   To create your paid site we recommend www.myhosting.com and www.fatcow.com web hosting providers because of their price, support, and ease of use..."