Abstract: A system and method for enabling a shopping experience at a shopping center over the Internet including, a shopping center subscription based portal subscribed to by individual shop owners of a shopping center, the portal providing access to the websites of the subscribing shop owners, the portal contactable through a URL by users, via a user system; a directory component adapted to enable location of a particular shopping center, shop name, floor level of the shopping center or type of goods or services; a navigation component adapted to display an assimilated ambulatory walk-through of the shopping center; a transactional component adapted to enable purchases to be made online; an information component adapted to provide shoppers with advertising information and general information, and a database for the storage and retrieval of data and information, wherein in operation the shopper can, experience shopping at the shopping center by being able to navigate through the shopping center and make purchases as i