Yahoo To Simplify e-biz For Small Companies

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Yahoo Inc. will revamp its e-commerce hosting platform to make it easier for small businesses to open and manage online stores. On Monday, Yahoo plans to unveil the first stage of the project by introducing two new "wizards" for designing stores and adding inventory information.

The automated guides feature intuitive interfaces, templates, layouts and menus that hide programming complexity from users, a Yahoo official said.

Yahoo To Simplify e-biz For Small Companies [smallbusiness.itworld.com]

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The Wizards are up, but they won't work for existing stores. Well they will, but you will have to rebuild your site from scratch apparently.

Not sure why they did this. The new product entry wizard is not complete, you still have to go in and edit the other paramaters, like weights. Kind of useless.

And making it so that the site editor breaks existing stores does not sound like much of a benefit.