Many businesses, both large and small, would like to take better advantage of their web presence by selling their products or services directly online. Setting up ecommerce, however, can be a very daunting task. There are several options with varying complexity. Many hosting providers offer ecommerce or “shopping cart” packages that may be either included with your web hosting plan or available for purchase. With other services, such as PayPal, you can enable online purchases by using an HTML form that submits to their processing system. There are still more options for using dedicated ecommerce packages, both open source and proprietary, that you host and configure. The biggest issue with all of these methods tends to be th....