[SamBella Designs]

Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone uses a site like Yahoo or similar for their website? If anyone designs and runs their own website. I will be ready soon to get my websites (I want to start two) up and running and dont have alot of money to do so. I have been reading up on the sites and I think I can do it myself but would love some input from those who know alot more than I do...that would be a whole lot of people! I will be making t-shirts of course along with quite a bit of other clothing items such as jackets etc...
Thanks for the input and looking forward to this very exciting time!
Happy Day All,
SamBella Designs

 

[Rodney]

Yes, many members here design and run their own websites. That's what this whole section is for

What kind of input are you looking for exactly?

You can also use the search box at the top of the page and type in yahoo to see feedback from people who use yahoo storebuilder or yahoo hosting.

 

[SamBella Designs]

I would love to run my own website, actually two of them for my products. I would love some input as to what people are using to host their sites (Yahoo etc...) and for any suggestions as to what the best self-run sites are financial wise and sites that are user friendly for someone like me who has never run their own site before. Any and all tips will be appreciated.
Thank you for the input.

 

[GRFXARMY]

I have an account with bluehost.com , they have tools that can automatically set up a few different shopping carts, including cubecart, oscommerce (which I use for StreetwearScene.com) and another one I believe. You have to learn some details on how to run it, but with practice and time you can definitely do it, I did!

 

[jkruse]

Dream host has been awesome to me, and is definitely worth the extra money.
For domain registration I use go daddy.

You can always use a domain and bigcartel to run your entire store.

 

[queerrep]

I would love to run my own website, actually two of them for my products. I would love some input as to what people are using to host their sites (Yahoo etc...) and for any suggestions as to what the best self-run sites are financial wise and sites that are user friendly for someone like me who has never run their own site before. Any and all tips will be appreciated.
Thank you for the input.

I also use bluehost, and like JStylez said, through the control panel you can install OS Commerce, Cubecart or ZenCart.

My yearly cost to maintain website:
bluehost - ~$84
SSL cert. - ~$100
ZenCart - $0

 

[bwiewiora]

The first thing is to get a domain name and hosting account. There are different levels of hosting based on the amount of traffic you expect to receive, but usually if you're just starting out one of the more basic packages works fine. Some hosting providers offer services to get your website up which are very useful. My hosting right now is through hostmonster, and they offer a bunch of different services.

My site is run using wordpress, which is blogging software but can be customized to use for a lot of other purposes. Using one these content management systems makes it a lot easier to administer the site because you don't have to dive into the code every time you want to change something.

There is a plugin for wordpress called wp e-commerce which I'm using for the products sections of my site. It works fairly well, although it's definitely not perfect. The best thing to do, though, is to dive in and try it out!


Good luck!

 

[tfalk]

I've got several sites hosted on Lunarpages, they include install scripts for ZenCart, OSCommerce and a couple of other things. I'm running a couple of sites using OSCommerce and another I started a few years ago using CommerceCGI.

Figure out what payment options you want to use first, then find a shopping cart that has a gateway already configured for it. The first time I went down this street, I found the cart I wanted to use, then spent weeks trying to learnenough about PHP, etc to code a gateway file to connect to my merchant account. Not fun...

 

[InterStreme]

I use godaddy.com for hosting and wordpress as a platform. Wordpress is pretty easy to set up manually. Godaddy now has an option that allows you have them install wordpress on your site. Wordpress is pretty east to manage and customize.

 

[taglessthreads]

We use Godaddy.com it is very user friendly !

 

[T-BOT]

"Does anyone design and run their own website?"

yes.


free hosting, c-panel and a bunch of other stuff...can't complain.


but Im not a designer.


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[Teecycle_Tim]

I'm a big fan of wordpress for my own site. Very user-friendly.

 

[SamBella Designs]

InterStreme: I LOVE your products. Your website looks great and the shirt on the opening page is fantastic!

 

[SamBella Designs]

Thank you so much everyone. I have gotten alot of valuable input. This is such a great site.

 

[krylonking]

please dont use yahoo, not that I dont like yahoo or anything, but usually those cookie cutter style website look like crap and do more to hurt your sales than help. I personally dont buy from stores that are created/run with yahoo.

I would put in work/time to either build your own from scratch, or pay someone to do it for you.

 

[T-BOT]

I would put in work/time to either build your own from scratch, or pay someone to do it for you.

Todd, I agree.

I mean, do people have any idea how much money and sales they can make by having a good working site that offers great products and content? noooooooooooooo.... most are happy with a beautiful site that joethesitemaker.coma gives you free included in your hosting pakage. Pardon my french, Im in Paris and I feel a change coming on. ...with google translate.


btw: Im by no means an expert and I love AltaVista.





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[InterStreme]

Thanks SamBella! If you ever need help with wordpress just let me know.

 

[bcash]

please dont use yahoo, not that I dont like yahoo or anything, but usually those cookie cutter style website look like crap and do more to hurt your sales than help. I personally dont buy from stores that are created/run with yahoo.

I would put in work/time to either build your own from scratch, or pay someone to do it for you.

I use Yahoo and have been pretty happy with them. My site is definitely not cookie cutter either. I love how everything is integrated, makes for easy management.
search "Printable Memories" to check out what a Yahoo store can do.

 

[NancyJPants]

I use Godaddy for hosting but the E-Junkie shopping cart allowed me to integrate and design my own shopping buttons and shipping.

 

[kurt]

We design program and maintain our web site. We work on it every day and employ several full time people to keep it going. A web site takes time and lots of money to do properly.

Kurt
http://www.brokenarrowwear.com