Site Design and Payments

I was excited to learn how to create a button for my website this week to enable selling. Since my website will be to sell products, I chose to create a Shopping Cart button through PayPal. I am still a bit nervous about this because I want to make sure it will work before going live. I may look into a different provider because PayPal seems to have higher transaction fees. 

It was unclear as to the information I needed to include for the button. It would have been helpful to have instructions in the week’s lesson since this is not something I have ever done before. A video walking through the process, step-by-step, would have made it a smoother process and given me more confidence that I was doing things correctly. Since the process of creating a payment button is something that is for an actual business and not just an assignment, I definitely need more in-depth instructions before feeling confident in what I am doing.

As part of this week, I also enjoyed looking at other websites that sell similar products to the business I am starting, Lush and Cosette. They had similarities as well as differences between the two sites. There were things that I will definitely want to include in my website.