need some website help!

buzzytops

hey guys

I'm trying to start my own business to earn a few pounds while i look for a job i just purchase a combo templates pack deal, I have a domain name and everting. I want to start selling templates however I need some help since I'm not very good with coding!

I purchased the templates pack and I'm trying to use one of the templates to launch my own site however i need things such as a way to process credit cards etc and do not know how can somebody please help!

I bought this at http://www.emazegrafix.com/ and need a site similar to it obviously different but same concept!

If anyone can help me with this please let me know I'll pay.

Thanks in advance

maniclaughter

For coding a custom site including secure payment gateway integration and admin panel for managing customers you would be looking in the region of £2000, certainly no less than £1000 for good coder. Once coded you will need to invest several more thousand pounds in advertising to actually get customers to your site. You would need to sell a lot of website templates to cover those costs.

To be honest you are wasting your time, you will not make your fortune selling other peoples products like that. The amount of money to setup and the amount you will sell you will be lucky to break even. Believe me if I thought it could be done I would have coded my own site to do it years ago.

There are a lot of misconceptions about the internet, people seem to think a few hundred pounds spent will allow them to sit back and rake in millions. That does not work in the outside world so why people expect it to on the net I don't know. There are no simple easy ways to make money on the internet it takes money, time and hard graft. Also you need to do something different or better than the thousands of people who are competing against you to sell the same products.

This is of course just my opinion as a humble programmer who has spent the last few years working in the web hosting industry. If you do decide to ignore my advice and do go ahead with your site I wish you the best of luck and hope for your sake you prove me wrong.

vyseyboy

wierd .

DCFC79

vyseyboy wrote: »

wierd .

whats weird

Bob63

Maniclaughter has some good advice. I suspect you may have the equivalent of Jack's magic beans. Hope you didn't have to sell the family cow to get it.

My advice would be to go into a quality book shop and buy a couple of Dummies / Hidden Manual type books on website design. Read them and you'll learn a lot about what is involved. As for payment, you could go through someone like Worldpay but if you aren't an established business I'm not sure they will want to talk to you. Otherwise PayPal might be another option. The other thing you could do is test the waters for your product by sticking it on eBay and see if you have any takers. Might save you an awful lot of time if it turns out to be a pup.

M4RKM

i totally agree with maniclaughter.... spot on really...

if you want a quick and easy way how to accept credit cards, just add a paypal processor into your pages, all the instructions are on paypal.com

personally, i'd never use a template based site, or sell template based sites, as i'd rather design to the customers needs... much more fun, and a little bit more money in it..

M

wanye

are website templates the new "legit" pyramid scheme?

the only people making real money are the people selling the "packs" of site templates.

if you want to make real money, get into a good CMS like drupal. learn how to skin/set it up well, and you can make some serious cash. but theres quite a large learning curve, especially as it seems you dont really know how to put together a site of your own.

sorry, but i think youve bought a dud...

*edit*
on that original site: "HTML Editting Script" - would you trust a site that cant even spell correctly?

vyseyboy

I thought it was wierd because it was first posts all round, and presumably spam for the templates website dressed up as a legitimate website-building query and answer.

I might be wrong but I think this is ornate spammery.

chunter

I agree with vysey. I smell a bubonic carrying rodent.

Whois details of op's domain:
Creation date: 20 Sep 2008 17:30:13

Crude stupid effort to fraud MSE users.
Give them the contempt they deserve.

tokyojon

Owning my own website, I get lots of spam mail from web site optimization services. Just this morning an interesting email appeared, telling website moderators to use forums and discussion groups as a means to advertise for free.

Now I understand the concept of trying to make some extra cash from running a small e-shop, but to sell templates online without knowing how to code seems an interesting story.

There is an easy solution to payment issues on the web, and that is to use Paypal as your payment gateway. Although the fees are not cheap when compared to other gateways, but there is not too much initial cost involved setting up Paypal and their website is relatively easy to follow.

M4RKM

owning multiple websites, i get minimal spam, mainly because the server i use, has spamassain built in, and it is set up to delete the spam at the source, thus negating the need for spam filters at my computer...

*adds nothing to the thread, just a random comment from what tokyojon was saying*

btw tokyojon... no links allowed in signatures