Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Online Store "DEFINITION"

An online storefront is a web site that enables visitors to find, order and pay for products and services. Running a successful store involves getting qualified buyers to visit your store, helping them to understand their problem (and the pain or desire that it is causing them), giving evidence you can solve their problem (credibility), and making it easy for them to acquire the solution from you (steps they use to gain ownership of the item).

Online storefronts typically include storefronts, shopping carts, payment processing, and order fulfillment systems. There are many store hosting options that can influence the effectiveness of a user experience and web analytics can be used to determine which mix of web pages, content choices, and product offers are most effective.

The basic process for running online stores includes promoting, qualifying, interest building, convincing, and order processing. There are different types of online stores which include online mall, e-commerce hosts, e-commerce software applications or custom software.

The online storefront provides various types of information to the visitor such as company description, product types, product description pages, store policies, and contact information. A shopping cart allows customers to select and temporarily store products that they want to purchase.

Payment processing is a system that allows the user to select which payment method they want to use, gather payment information (e.g. credit card number), and processes or records the payment information. Fulfillment is the process of picking or obtaining the items the customer has ordered, shipping the item(s), and maintaining delivery tracking information.

This figure shows that an online storefront usually contains a combination of storefront, shopping cart, payment processing, and fulfillment functions. The storefront is the display that the user sees which contains company description, store policies and product information. The shopping cart is a process that allows the user to select and temporarily store items that they want to purchase. Payment processing is the capability to gather payment information (e.g. credit card information) and receive payment for the order. Fulfillment is the tracking of the delivery of items the customer has purchased. 

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Know the Indonesian Spice Crops



Indonesia is one of the country's largest producer of spices in the world. Because the same spices that Indonesia was never colonized by another country. Actually what is the spice that ?

Spices are the aromatic parts of plants or a strong taste that is used in small quantities in food as preservatives or flavor enhancer in food. Spices are usually distinguished from other plants used for similar purposes, such as medicinal herbs, aromatic vegetables, and dried fruit.

Spices are the most valuable commodity in pre-colonial era. Many spices were used in the treatment, but now it is reduced.

Spices is one reason why the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reached India and the Moluccas. These spices have stimulated the Dutch and then followed to the Moluccas, while Spain under the leadership of Columbus had previously sought to east through another way and ended up landing in the Americas.

Did not know then no affection, so the saying goes. Maybe just a lot of useful plants around us do not recognize its usefulness, but because it became something that was useful. Therefore, let us now familiar with some spices and medicinal plants of Indonesia.


   
1. Cloves
   
2. Nutmeg
   
3. Cinnamon
   
4. Pepper
   
5. Fennel
   
6. Cardamom
   
7. Cumin