ers for a small additional fee. Other forms of product ordering include having a person send an email to a sales representative. As in the user interactive system used in forms, the representative must again key the order into the entry system. More traditional forms of ordering can also be used, including phone operators, fax and regular mail. The initial setup fee may be higher for a fully automatic ordering system but the recurring fees will be significantly less then that of user interactive systems. A mix of traditional and automatic systems is most likely the best configuration and will allow people who are uncertain of purchasing items online a way of obtaining your products. Now that you have a product to sell, a method of selling them, a Web address, and a place to store your Web page, you must create the pages. Web pages can be simple or very complex. What yours will be depends on the things you would like to do with it. If you decided to have fully automatic ordering system, your Web page will be more complex than a page that just lists the products and a phone number or email address for customers to contact. Those who decide to have a complex system of Web pages offering many options will find professionally designed pages to be the simplest solution. One should focus on the business' core competencies. Unless your business is offering Web page services, you will want to stick with selling your products and not spending time designing and maintaining the complex Web pages. If you chose to design your own page, there are many applications available to assist you. Web pages are created using a language known as HTML, hypertext mark-up language. Microsoft is now implementing print as html in the newest versions of all their applications. There are also applications that can be used to solely design Web pages; Microsoft FrontPage, Netscape Navigator Gold, and Adobe Pagemill are some of the most widely used. The best way to ...
