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So you’re planning on distributing your products to a global consumer market via your e-commerce website. This article is written for UK-based businesses distributing products overseas however this article can be used by businesses in other locations using a similar logic.

Weighing your products – It is important that you weigh all of your products which you are planning to sell online to overseas customers. As your customer add products to a shopping basket, you need to know the total weight of the order, the total weight of an order needs to be accurate so the weighing of your products must also be accurate. Distribution costs become much easier to calculate once your e-commerce software application knows the total weight of a given order.

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This article aims to describe what a CMS website is and how a CMS website can help your business. So let’s first start of with what CMS actually stands for:

CMS = Content Management System

A CMS website can be developed in many different ways, it all depends on what your business does. For example if you are selling products online you may decide to build an e-commerce CMS website, this will give you the ability to add categories and products to your website using a secure control panel. A CMS website is not limited to just and e-commerce shopping website, you may be running a different type of business which does not sell products online, for example a business consultancy company, accountancy company or events management company but we would still like to be able to make updates to your website yourself. A content management system (CMS) website gives you the ability to take control of your website and make updates as often as you like.

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This article is dedicated to restaurants owners who are planning on building a new website. The article aims to give you a fundamental structure for your restaurant website.

All restaurants have something in common, you’ll want to generate new customers visiting your restaurant. If you have a website which is informative then you have a great chance of getting new customers through your restaurant doors.

Before building your website you should consider what website structure you need in order to get all the information about your restaurant to your potential customer.

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The first point you should consider is understanding what information your website should contain. In most cases your website should have at least the following basic structure:

Home page – An introduction to your business, services and / or products
About page – An overview of your business, future vision
Services / Product page – An overview of your services / products
Contact page – Provide all your business contact information, address, email, telephone

There are many other web pages which you can add to your website but these pages will be determined by the type of business you own. Below are examples of other pages you may require for your website:

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CSS 3 stands for cascading style Sheets. Cascading style sheets are used commonly when designing a website. Cascading style sheets (CSS) allows a designer to separate the written content of a webpage from the design elements such as content layout, fonts and colours.

CSS (cascading style Sheets) allows a web designer to easily change the style and design of a website without having to edit every single page separately. In essence the cascading style sheet provides a central location which can be updated in terms of style and design, this can then be applied to a website with ease.

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