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Friends have been asking, “What shopping cart do you recommend for online retailers?”. My personal favorite would be osCommerce, but it might be too advanced for beginner. From hosting, installing, tweaking and beautifying, it sure takes a lot time and effort for a beginner. However, people might enjoy the freedom of tweaking osCommerce because it is an open source project.

So, a stand-alone shopping cart is not in your option list. You do not know a thing about web hosting, FTP file upload, and server-side scripting. Hiring a programmer or a technical support is something you do not want to invest, you have doubts on your own products, is it going to make it online? Well, thanks to Internet, some people out there are ready to solve your problem.

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Today, I did an osCommerce installation on my web space. Pretty straight forward process in a nutshell, a little bit of patching needs to be done your web server has disabled “register_globals” variable in php.ini. It can be easily solved, not a big problem at all.

First, download your copy of osCommerce. Upload to your server, best if you’ve got SSH access, upload the archive to your web root, and extract it there. If not, extract the archive on your local system, and upload the extracted files with your FTP login. Refer to following pre-requisites check.

I feel upset after reading this post from Gobala Krishnan. Yes, upset and provoked by the fact that we Malaysians are not well awared of the danger of the Internet and how cunning can people be if it’s about money.

The story is not new, another “I-Can-Build-You-Money-Making-Website” scam. Look at the complaint filed by a victim at complaints.com, you’ll find out the the scam was from a website storeonline.com. How on earth did people just believe to something like that and actually spent that much for websites.

Make sure you’ve read the part 1 before going on.

Okay, the first choice of mine, and most of my contacts in Singapore, would be Worldpay.com.Very strong background, Swiss bank group, they have branch office in Singapore. I guess dealing with money is what they do best. During my first experience with them, the account activation charge was SGD 650++, the same per year, and now they don’t publish their package price on their web anymore, all you can do is fill in their form, and request quotation from them. So far I have not received any negative feedback from my clients that using worldpay service. Their WorldAlert anti fraud mechanism worths every penny, at additional cost of course. I’m not sure whether they deal with individuals or not though, all the sites I’ve dealt with, they have proper business registration at local authority.One thing for sure, worldpay deals with Malaysia.

Alright, first of all, this post is aimed to reach all my dearly fellow malaysians. If you are not one, sorry. Please also bear in mind that what I’m telling here is all my personal experiences and opinions. I do not hold any responbility for any action you make after reading this.

It’s not easy being a Malaysian, all the traffic jams, neighborhood security issues, fogs from Kalimantan, rising gas prices, and many others you can tell. Cheers to all the brothers and sisters, for we’ve made it so far. So now you think, the world outside is so dangerous, let’s make a living at home, with your computer and Internet.

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