Welcome to Network World's Electronic Commerce minisite, a companion to our annual Electronic Commerce Issue, a Signature Series special edition. You'll find articles and tools to help you make sense of this ever-changing market. We've got checklists, expert advice and diagrams that will help you build a strong e-commerce network.

Who made the cut? Our e-comm outsourcing services buyer's guide includes 22 enterprise-class outsourcers. Download the list, or compare two or more via three dozen criteria. Web design, hosting, security - even m-commerce - our guide has it all. The new rules for IT project management In this Network World roundtable, e-commerce project management experts offer tips on adapting to faster schedules and bigger security. Forums | News | Newsletters | Research

Vendors have reached new levels of cooperation on business-to-business e-commerce. The result has muddied product choices.

The honeymoon is over for the dot-coms, but that doesn't mean your project is doomed - unless, of course, you commit these offenses.

ABF Freight System wins Network World's 2001 E-comm Innovator
of the Year Award with an elegant network design, truckloads of creative features and an open business philosophy.

When it comes to analyzing the return on investment for e-commerce initiatives, most organizations either don’t do it, or don’t do it right. IT could be shouldering more than its share of e-commerce costs. Here's how to protect your budget.

Here's your blueprint for designing and building winning business-to-business extranets. Includes a downloadable checklist.

An emerging standard offers real-time certificate validation,
necessary for any high-stakes e-commerce site.

Mobile commerce may become a critical sales channel for your company but before barreling in, consider its current drawbacks. Includes a downloadable checklist.

You can build an e-commerce site that never fails. Here's how others have done it.

Our annual look at what's right - and wrong - with e-commerce.

THE SIGNATURE SERIES
The Electronic Commerce Issue is one of six bimonthly supplements providing insights, opinions and information on the biggest trends shaping the networked world.