{"id":125,"date":"2006-05-24T06:36:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T11:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantaccountblog.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-01-06T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T16:58:23","slug":"article-10-easy-steps-to-a-horrible-ecommerce-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/125\/article-10-easy-steps-to-a-horrible-ecommerce-site","title":{"rendered":"Article &#8211; 10 Easy Steps to a Horrible Ecommerce Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish that I would have seen this article sooner. Jason Chance of jccommerce.com wrote an article, 10 Easy Steps to a Horrible Ecommerce Site, that covers many of the mistakes that new online businesses make. Here are a few excerpts from the article. I highly recommend new and existing online business owners to take a look at it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever shopping cart you use, the &#8220;stock&#8221; or default look is fine. After all, if it wasn&#8217;t the best layout of all time, why would they distribute it as &#8220;stock&#8221; in the first place?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>All that junk about customers &#8220;Caring about their privacy&#8221; and being &#8220;Worried about identity theft&#8221; is unfounded. Just ask my friend &#8220;John&#8221; from Indonesia. Hey, by the way, he has $30,000,000.00 he wants to send you. He just needs your credit card number along with your name and billing address.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/article\/steps-horrible-ecommerce-site\">http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/article\/steps-horrible-ecommerce-site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish that I would have seen this article sooner. Jason Chance of jccommerce.com wrote an article, 10 Easy Steps to a Horrible Ecommerce Site, that covers many of the mistakes that new online businesses make. Here are a few excerpts from the article. I highly recommend new and existing online business owners to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecommerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}