• Magento: Magento is an Open Source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework.
• Zen Cart: Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.
• Freeway: Freeway is by far the largest and most fully featured Open Source eCommerce platform. It doesn’t just sell products but extends to sell in some very fancy new ways and is very configurable. For example, you can just sell products if you are not interested in the other selling methods. You will find Freeway has very strong CRM features as well as a useful and simple CMS as well.
• osCommerce: osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution.
• OpenCart: OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost. OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.
• PrestaShop: PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution was built to take advantage of essential Web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX-powered features and next-generation ergonomy. PrestaShop guides users through your product catalog intelligently and effortlessly, turning intrigued visitors into paying customers.
• phpShop: phpShop is a PHP-powered shopping cart application. It is released under the GNU General Public License. The primary purpose of phpShop is to provide a simple shopping cart solution that is easy to customize to suit any purpose. phpShop has less features that many other shopping cart applications, but is generally easier to customize.

After you have selected the script, your next need is finding some good website designers. The default theme of these open source scripts is not that attractive. You should hire an expert ecommerce website design company to give your website unique and professional look. Look of ecommerce website is very important to put good impression on buyers. Designer will also customize your website according to product you are selling. They will also setup other required things like, payment gateway, shipping method etc.

You should select the script which has good support and large community. Yon can try demo of these scripts to see how script works before installing on your hosting account. Demo link can be found on respective website.

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1) First step is, select the CMS for your website. Go to respective CMS official website and look for demo. Demo will help you to test the CMS.

2) After selecting the CMS, next step is find the find the requirements for that CMS. Most CMS require any database like MySQL, php. Make sure your server satifies the minimum requirements.

If your webserver satisfies the minimum requirement, than download the latest version of that CMS setup from the official website.

There are many popular CMS like:

1) Drupal

2) Joomla

3) Mambo

4) PhpNuke

5) PostNuke

6) Xoops

7) PHP-Fusion

Now if your web hosting dont’t have fantastico. Read the manual installation procedure from respective website. The general procedure for manual installation any CMS are follows:
1) Download the latest version of CMS from the official website of that CMS.
2) Upload the files in the directory where you want to install the CMS.
3) Create a database username and password from web hosting control panel. Assign all rights to that username for that databse.
4) Open web browser, and open the installation url. Generally the installation url is:

http://www.yourwebsite.com/install.php

5) Follow the instruction, and when asked enter database username, password etc.
6) Complete the installation procedure, and your CMS is ready for use.