eCommerce

Shopping Cart Software Review has awarded ShopSite Pro their top award for the second year in a row.
ecommerce-guide.com - "ShopSite 8 adds a bevy of new features that existing ShopSite users will definitely clamor for."
ecommerce-guide.com - "[ShopSite] adds support for gift certificates and additional payment gateways, XML upload capabilities and intrusion detection - all of which make a first-rate product even better."
ecommerce-guide.com - "ShopSite continues to make a name for itself as a powerful e-commerce solution offering flexibility and real room to grow."
ISP Planet - "The ShopSite software . . . adds a swath of new features, but the basic goal remains serving all customers."
Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, Web Commerce Today - "[ShopSite] includes substantial enhancements and demonstrates to me that ShopSite is on the improvement track again."
Web Marketing Today - "The Pro version includes customer registration. Customers can be assigned to groups and automatically get coupons when they log in. This makes the cart much more inviting to B2B sellers who have negotiated prices with various vendors." (subscription required to read the full review)
InfoWorld - "I tested the service as a merchant and found store creation and management to be quite simple. I did not have to download any software or engage in involved configuration."
PC Week - "businesses will find it an excellent choice for building anything from a simple catalog to a large online store."
C|Net - "ShopSite Manager is a relative bargain for companies with a lot of items to sell"
InfoWorld - "Administration, maintenance, configuration, and catalog management are all performed online using one of the cleanest and fastest interfaces that I have seen."
Computer Reseller News - "The nice thing about this product is that the customer can set it up and manage their Web site by themselves, if they choose,"
eWeek - "ShopSite's handling of product discounts, made it simple to quickly mark products as sales items."
Web Developer's Journal - "[the ShopSite team] has gone to such lengths to make an e-commerce site easy to set up that your mother can probably do it."

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1. Because they are always present, they can be indexed by search engines. A significant portion of customers find sites by using search engines. Dynamic Web pages generally cannot be found through search engines such as Alta Vista, Infoseek, HotBot and others. Note this information from Google, the leading search engine:

   "Reasons your site may not be included [indexed].
   Your pages are dynamically generated. We are able to index dynamically generated pages. However, because our web crawler can easily overwhelm and crash sites serving dynamic content, we limit the amount of dynamic pages we index."

2. Static Web pages are faster. When a customer clicks a link to a dynamic Web page, that page must first be created before the Web Server can send it to the customer's browser, which takes time. Static pages are ready to be served instantly.
3. Hosting companies prefer static Web pages because they use less resources than dynamic pages. With dynamic pages, a database is constantly being accessed for every customer wanting to view a page. This takes server CPU cycles and means that the frequently accessed pages cannot be store in 'cache' (memory) on the server or on the customer's local browser (on disk).