Website building

goldthornwolf

Hey all, can people advise with tips for building my own website for international trading. Im going through the Microsoft route and using template to get started but was wondering if people can help with ideas on layout, style, things to include, metatags, eyecatching / attention grabbers, how to internet guides etc etc

All advise is much appreciated

Thanks

isofa

The Microsoft route, what software/package etc?

Google really is the answer here, try: http://websitetips.com/

bazzlad

goldthornwolf wrote: »

Hey all, can people advise with tips for building my own website for international trading

To be fair mate, if you're making a website for international trading, consider paying the money out and getting a decent pro to do the work. After all, if you were buying a shop, you wouldn't build it and decorate it yourself would you? It'd look horrific. (Unless you're a builder/decorating in which case my example fails).

But seriously, if you're working from scratch with no background and you want to trade internationally, I wouldn't entertain making your own site unless you're either, young and tech minded with a lot of spare time, or stupid.

scrungebucket

Simon at www.tobyhost.co.uk a call he does professional sites.


TA

chunter

scrungebucket wrote: »

Simon at www.tobyhost.co.uk a call he does professional sites.

He must be cheap...

TechTerry

You are going to need to use a shopping cart script, to design it yourself you will need to know about 4 programming languages.

You will also need a web host, a domain and if you care about your users security you will need a dedicated IP address and SSL certificate, you need the IP so that the SSL will work. SSl is the little padlock you see

Good luck.

http://harman-media.com can offer you everything you need to setup.

chunter

TechTerry wrote: »

You are going to need to use a shopping cart script, to design it yourself you will need to know about 4 programming languages.

You will also need a web host, a domain and if you care about your users security you will need a dedicated IP address and SSL certificate, you need the IP so that the SSL will work. SSl is the little padlock you see

Why scare people with talk of designing shopping carts?

Romancart (along with quite a few others) handles the shopping basket for you.
And there is a free version that will get you started.
It links in with all the major UK (and World) banking credit card handlers who will handle the credit card details and security for a price.

I assume you have merchant banking facilites set up with your business account bank (to handle credit card payments).

Also, Paypal will work as a third party to accept Paypal for a cut of the payment.

A survey I seen today said that 80% of internet users have used EBay.
A fair percentage of them will therefore already have Paypal accounts which can be used on any website which accepts Paypal payments.

[Deleted User]

scrungebucket wrote: »

Simon at www.tobyhost.co.uk a call he does professional sites.


TA

eww that's ugly. I hope you've not paid for his services, that kind of design shouldn't be allowed online anymore

TechTerry

huh?

No i ment that he would be better of using a script and not to design it himself unless he knows at least 4 programming languages.

isofa

If it's for a professional site, then I'd invest in a professional designer.

If you are testing the waters and really know what you are doing, go for it, I'd suggest looking at Google Checkout, can be easily added to sites.

BexTech

scrungebucket wrote: »

Simon at www.tobyhost.co.uk a call he does professional sites.


TA

Blimey, that site is bad. Wouldn't want to pay for a site like that, in fact I wouldn't even take payment for a site like that.