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« on: February 16, 2009, 08:10:02 AM »
Hello there.
I have decided to create a page to sell used books. I already bought the domain and the hosting plan. I even started designing the web using dreamweaver... I don't have experience with databases software... so, I was considering not to do it very sophisticated, just as simple as I could... But then, I realized that it was not that simple.... That is, visitors need a search engine book to find the book they want to buy...
I was checking the options that lunarpages offer for e-commerce and I found a site flash-template-design that offers templates for me to have an online store set and ready to use. I have written an email to them, asking if I will be able to set my template and they say YES. I have experience designing and I have set some scripts to receive emails through the web... My question is... Do you really think that I will be able to configure this template they sell for US$145? Help
Thanks for your response,

José Carlos. Mmm Coffee
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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2009, 04:59:13 PM »
Well, you can spend $145 to have someone do it for you, or you can spend $0 to use a canned shopping cart such as osCommerce, Zen Cart, or CubeCart (all installable from cPanel > Fantastico scripts) or many other free or cheap systems out on the Web. I'd be concerned about a vendor who may not have a lot of experience with the ins and outs of ecommerce making a site for you. There's a lot more than making pretty pages. Do they state that they've put together lots of ecommerce sites? Are they willing to tell you which ones so you can look at them? If not, I'd avoid them. At any rate, be sure to read the discussions on this board about good shopping carts for beginners.
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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2009, 08:57:28 PM »
I agree with all of what MrPhil says, but I just wanted to add something.  I actually find it somewhat fishy that someone (or a company) is charging only $145 to set up an e-commerce site which generally takes a lot of work to do.  Just be weary.

Also, if you decide to do it yourself... I've used osCommerce to make a book store site of around 100,000 or so books.  It's not the easiest to maintain (OK, it's a downright pain to maintain [especially if you're synchronizing the records from a physical store's database]), and it doesn't have the easiest learning curve, nor the prettiest interface (backend or frontend), but it gets the job done.  Fortunately, though, you have a few more options than just this.  I recommend you take a visit to this site and try some e-commerce shopping carts out for yourself to see if any of them suit your needs.  Some of these open source shopping carts have large communities that support beginners and can help out with any problems you might run into.
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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2009, 06:43:30 AM »
Quote from: Ibanez Player 85 on February 16, 2009, 08:57:28 PM
I actually find it somewhat fishy that someone (or a company) is charging only $145 to set up an e-commerce site which generally takes a lot of work to do.

At best, they've got a canned setup that they just slap a new store name on to -- it may, or may not, fit what the client wants and needs. At worst, they're using it as a loss-leader to either do their learning on, or lure the client into expensive upgrades. Either way, they're not going to be able to afford a lot of hand-holding at that price. If they can show off a number of live sites that they've done, with happy clients,...

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Just be weary.

Yeah, he'll be weary of doing battle with a bad system if he isn't first wary about the claims! Smile
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« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2009, 09:08:29 AM »
Quote from: MrPhil on February 17, 2009, 06:43:30 AM
Yeah, he'll be weary of doing battle with a bad system if he isn't first wary about the claims! Smile

lol good one.  Thank you for pointing out my error Smile
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« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2009, 09:33:57 AM »
To the original poster (iniciado), please feel free to contact us at affiliate@lunarpages.com.  The flash-template-design.com site is a partner of ours (who can be trusted), so we would be happy to help in any way that we can with any questions you might have about the templates.  Thanks!
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