Starting up an on-line store.. help

[corppunishment]

I was wondering how I go about creating a website that allows for the on-line shopping cart. I have never created a website but I will either need to learn quickly or hire someone to do it for me.

Thanks for your anticipated help.

 

[Mateja]

Well the easiest thing to do is get a host that supplies fantastico as that is basically an auto-installer of a lot of different scripts including 3 different types of shopping system, not sure how easy they are to customize - shouldn't be too bad though.

 

[creationz]

am willing to help out or do the work for you
if interested email me at [email protected]

 

[vslevin]

I recommend osCommerce. Its a free, open source, ecommerce system project. I've used it before, its very customizable, but you will need some knowledge of PHP and CSS. There's a great community to help you, and with lots of mods that you can install.

See oscommere.org

 

[StudioWorks]

Use OsCommerce, it's great and free.

SW

 

[TeviH]

cheap alternatives to open source are LiteCommerce and turnkeywebtools.com. ($99 and $189 respectively, though litecommerce may require extra plugins that cost a little more)

LC and turnkey are completely customizable in every way - they're template-driven.

 

[duncanhalley.co.uk]

I'm a big fan of CubeCart, I find it a lot easier to customise than OS Commerce.

 

[slaydragon]

if you are interested in finding a freelance worker to create a site for your shopping cart you can pm me the details :D