When you decide to set up your new Web site, you have many different choices on design. You can work with an independent web designer and start from scratch. You can also find many ready-made templates just by googling “web site templates.”

Thousands of successful merchants have decided to go another route–getting their web site through Yahoo! Merchant Services.  Yahoo! has an all-one e-commerce package that is up and running in days. This is not to say that there is no learning curve–there is. You need to learn some basic RXML (instead of HTML) language and you will need to make a number of different decisions on how you want to tailor the Yahoo! store templates.

Yahoo! actually does everything for you.  They host your e-commerce store on their Web servers and give you full access to their fully featured shopping cart solution. They will also give you basic design support on your new Web site. This is only $39.95 a month for the starter package, plus a 1.5 percent fee off your gross sales.

Some merchants would rather place the look of their store in the hands of an experienced Yahoo! web designer. Ventura Web Design, for example, has a whole range of services for putting up a Yahoo! store.

If you want some more information about how to get a Yahoo! store up and running, just click on the book and get going: 

The benefits of Yahoo! Include
Tools and templates  for storefront design

Search engine optimized shopping cart

Credit card and payment processing

Web hosting for the store

Many different additional features and add ons

The Yahoo! brand on your Web site to reinforce security

Round-the-clock technical support

Powerful analytics to keep on improving your site