e shop

crewe

Hi
I want to start selling a small number of goods online and would like to have my own e shop.
Can I buy a ready made template from somewhere and just add my own graphics etc?
I also have a Paypal account and was hoping to use this to receive payments.

Thanks

Browntoa

loads of free templates here

http://www.oswd.org/

you need to know how to change html

Paypal works fine by using "Payment Buttons" , just cut and past the code into the page

I've done it !! works fine

MercilessKiller

Paypal have tools which allow people to pay for products through your business and paypal. You merely copy the html of a link from paypal onto your site and its all auto really..

As for your shop, its best not to use templates, and either pay someone to create one or learn yourself. Templates can be very nasty to edit if not designed properly through css and xhtml. I would say the only decent templates or xoops or php templates, but this may be more advanced than a small eshop.

You would also need to advertise and market your website which can cost quite a bit depending how far you want to go. A lot of people simply use ebay as a shop for them, as you can create an "ebay seller shop" or something I do believe.

Hope any of this is of help.

clayts

I thoroughly recommend the free, open source os commerce although you need to be reasonably comfortable using MySQL, php and FTP

Mr_Skint_2

Browntoa wrote:

loads of free templates here

http://www.oswd.org/

you need to know how to change html

Paypal works fine by using "Payment Buttons" , just cut and past the code into the page

I've done it !! works fine

Reading this post with great interest is thier any "amateur" sites
where I and anybody else could get a preview of the kind of
thing you mean, that would be very helpful.

Many Thanks Mr Skint

Browntoa

Mr_Skint wrote:

Reading this post with great interest is thier any "amateur" sites
where I and anybody else could get a preview of the kind of
thing you mean, that would be very helpful.

Many Thanks Mr Skint

not without posting mine..lol

I won't do that as it's not in the spirit of things !!

I'm happy to offer advice though

Browntoa

MercilessKiller wrote:

Paypal have tools which allow people to pay for products through your business and paypal. You merely copy the html of a link from paypal onto your site and its all auto really..

As for your shop, its best not to use templates, and either pay someone to create one or learn yourself. Templates can be very nasty to edit if not designed properly through css and xhtml. I would say the only decent templates or xoops or php templates, but this may be more advanced than a small eshop.

You would also need to advertise and market your website which can cost quite a bit depending how far you want to go. A lot of people simply use ebay as a shop for them, as you can create an "ebay seller shop" or something I do believe.

Hope any of this is of help.

the templates I linked to are very good basic web sites...i'v done some VERY good sites from there !!

Mr_Skint_2

Is there any chance of PM ing me a site to look at Browntoa.