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paulwf wrote: »

This may be just a personal thing but I can never spell "jewellery" and my spelling is usually reasonable. I think it is because Americans use a different spelling. Obviously with domain names you need to type it 100% correctly so I'd always prefer to see short simple words used. Also if you ever want to attract an international audience you need to make sure spelling is consistent between countries.

Hope that doesn't make me sound thick! The easier you can make it for customers to buy the better.

I'm with you there Paul! There are a very very few words I can't automatically spell right, but that's one of them!

marvin

paulwf wrote: »

This may be just a personal thing but I can never spell "jewellery" and my spelling is usually reasonable. I think it is because Americans use a different spelling. Obviously with domain names you need to type it 100% correctly so I'd always prefer to see short simple words used. Also if you ever want to attract an international audience you need to make sure spelling is consistent between countries.

Hope that doesn't make me sound thick! The easier you can make it for customers to buy the better.

Absolutely agree with this I am dyslexic and it took several goes for Google to get the right search with the right spleling.

GoodNewmover

paulwf wrote: »

OP why don't you try Ebay and any craft sites (Etsy? Folksy? not really my area) first? They are fantastic sites to do a trial with, providing all the hosting and templates and most importantly payment method and customers. Try it for a month and then you know what sells and what doesn't, and what your price points are. You'll then be in a much better position to form a business plan than when everything is theoretical.

cheaper as well.

steve1980

You can't base your entire business on 1 month's trial

gazfocus

Have sent you a PM, let me know if I can help

bevan840

Thanks everyone for their comments. I will be using ebay at the same time as website, so that I can put different products on each to get them out there, if I find something sells better on one will introduce it to the other, same with things that might sell slowly, will put it on the other to see if it does any better. I have looked into folksy/etsy etc and also have my eye on another website, but the name is evading me at the moment but it's written down at home in my book I'm using to keep all my info in one place.

Thanks gaz, have sent one back

davidjwest

I've been using 34sp for years - they are by no means the cheapest but they are extremely reliable and very quick to respond to technical queries.

I honestly cannot emphasize too much how frustrating it can be when your site is down due to hosting problems - well worth paying a premium for this in my opinion.

I pay my host £15 a month for my reseller account that allows me to have several domains hosted by them - for one domain I think they charge from £3.95 a month.

No connection other than a satisfied customer.