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To get success from your e-commerce business, you need to set short-term and long-term goals. I've given some questions here which can be helpful for you.

• How much money can you invest up front?
• How much time?
• Who will help you?
• How will they be compensated?
• From where will you get more money when that need arises?
• Who is going to handle the bookkeeping?
• How will you get people to visit your visit?
• If you're selling physical products, where will they be stored?
• How will you perform the actual shipping of the merchandise?

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• The customer must be respected
• Their questions answered
• Their concerns addressed
• Their fears mitigated

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As we're about to learn, there are lots of CSS frameworks to choose from. Regardless of which one you end up with, this is where a lot of time-saving "magic" can start to happen for you and your design process.By using a CSS framework, you can quickly set up layout positioning for your mock-up. Let's take a quick tour of the top two CSS framework systems available.

960

960 grid is probably the most popular CSS framework out there because of the fact that 960 can be divided by a lot of numbers,giving you a great deal of flexibility for your layout.
You can find it at http://960.gs/.

Blueprint

Blueprint includes typography,form starters, and other plugins to choose from. It's based on a grid of 24 columns that are 30-pixel wide, with a 10-pixel margin, and the default is 950-pixels wide.
You can find out all about it at: http://www.blueprintcss.org/.

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• Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/)
• Chrome (https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/)
• Safari (https://www.apple.com/safari/)
• Opera (http://www.opera.com/)
• Internet Explorer (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/download-ie)

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• GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
• Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/)

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More and more frameworks show up every day, and each framework tries to address and handle slightly different needs. As a bonus, some frameworks add options into the WordPress administration panel that allow the end user to add and remove features to/from the child theme they've selected.

The right framework for you will depend on your development style and the needs of your site, but some popular frameworks are listed next.

Themes that offer a lot of child themes which you can customize yourself:

• Thematic (http://themeshaper.com/thematic/)
• Hybrid (http://themehybrid.com/)

Premium frameworks with additional features are as follows:

• Carrington (http://carringtontheme.com/)
• Thesis (http://diythemes.com/)

In fact, there are many theme frameworks available. A quick Google search for "WordPress Theme Frameworks" will turn up quite a range to choose from.

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