For those of you out there who are novices to the web design world, you may want to have your own ecommerce website, and wonder how in the world you can tackle the problem of having quality shopping cart software. I can tell you from experience that while solutions like OsCommerce look good, they can be a huge hassle if you ever have to dig down into the code to do anything unique to it.
One great thing that I have noticed about AShopCommerce is that they will design your custom e-commerce storefront for free! They also offer the ability to get some custom work done on bits and pieces on an as needed basis, and they host the whole thing for you on lightning fast servers, and guarantee the up time of your site.
They also make the ecommerce shopping cart SEO friendly. This is a tough thing to do after the fact, so starting with the correct shopping cart up front can save you time and money in the end. I have had clients in the past who tried to modify their own shopping carts and failed causing huge problems for themselves down the road. You can save your self the trouble, and start with something that you know will work correctly.