February 17, 2004 ~ PC magazine " Creating an Online Store " by Sheryl Canter

-every online store needs to components: a catalog to display your products and to allow your customers to make selections, and a method of accepting payment
-a multi product order page which lets customers enter quantities next to each item; with a single button labeled checkout which brings customers to a payment page
-if your online store contains a large number of products, you'll probably want to use a catalog with a shopping cart, which can remember users selections
-there are three options for selecting payments online: person to person (P2P) services, such as Paypal or Yahoo! PayDirect; payment services, which accept credit cards for you; your own merchant account for taking credit cards