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Helloooo....

We currently have a t-shirt shop up through Godaddy.com, they are the host and I used quick shopping cart, however we are unimpressed. Seems very limited.

I think we've hit a wall. I do not know any code whatsoever... php, html, css, I don't even know what they mean! haha. I would like to have a smooth, clean, modern looking site, to sell strictly t-shirts We thought about using zen cart but I hear it is PHP intense and works best with Linux? What about Joomla and virtuemart? Is that very code intensive? Any other suggestions? help a newb!
 
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jerassica said:
Helloooo....

We currently have a t-shirt shop up through Godaddy.com, they are the host and I used quick shopping cart, however we are unimpressed. Seems very limited.

I think we've hit a wall. I do not know any code whatsoever... php, html, css, I don't even know what they mean! haha. I would like to have a smooth, clean, modern looking site, to sell strictly t-shirts We thought about using zen cart but I hear it is PHP intense and works best with Linux? What about Joomla and virtuemart? Is that very code intensive? Any other suggestions? help a newb!
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If you don't want to deal with any of the code stuff (and assuming you don't want to hire someone to do it for you), then you'd need a hosted shopping cart system like corecommerce, monstercommerce, yahoocart, etc

What *exactly* were you unimpressed with when you used GoDaddy's cart? That will help us suggest alternatives that better meet your needs.
 
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If you want to edit your cart whatsoever you're going to need to know some bit of code, whatever language it may be. Unless you have money to buy a great content management system that is visually editable. Unless someone else has come across something I have not... anyway a lot of online t-shirts use Big Cartel - Simple shopping cart for artists, designers, bands, record labels, jewelry, crafters[/url] if you want to do just basic edits you have to tinker with it, but if you want to do serious edits you need some programming knowledge.

Rodney, let me know if it's not ok to post links like that... I'm not affiliated or anything.
 
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I agree with Rodney, we will need to know what functions you did not like about godaddy's shopping cart to lead you in the right direction.

also if you have a hosting account with godaddy by default they give you a linux hosting account. zencart is run off the server and you will need to learn html and php to get zencart up and running on your hosting acount. You do not need linux on your own computer! Just on your hosting account.


Hope this helps

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As the other posters have pointed out: If you don't want to deal with code, use a hosted system. When you use a hosted system, you couldn't care less if it's run on Linux or Windows, if it uses PHP or ASP on the server-side, etc. As long as it's a good shop.

I have never done any T-shirt shop designs for clients before, but I have used Shopify for setting up very simple storefronts. You can use pre-built themes or create your own look and feel with HTML and CSS. They have a 30-day trial, so you can check it out and see what you think.

There is also BigCartel, which is used by one of my favorite T-shirt shops: Ugmonk. I have never used it myself, so I don't know how easy things are to set up, but a lot of online T-shirt shops are using it. That sometimes speaks for itself.
 
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Rodney said:
If you don't want to deal with any of the code stuff (and assuming you don't want to hire someone to do it for you), then you'd need a hosted shopping cart system like corecommerce, monstercommerce, yahoocart, etc

What *exactly* were you unimpressed with when you used GoDaddy's cart? That will help us suggest alternatives that better meet your needs.
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Rodney said:
If you don't want to deal with any of the code stuff (and assuming you don't want to hire someone to do it for you), then you'd need a hosted shopping cart system like corecommerce, monstercommerce, yahoocart, etc

What *exactly* were you unimpressed with when you used GoDaddy's cart? That will help us suggest alternatives that better meet your needs.
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Thanks for your help. I will check into those...

Grievances with GoDaddy:
*Poor selection of Templates, customization options
*Not able to have an elastic shipping rate (i.e. first shirt is $5 shipping, $2 more for every shirt thereafter...)

Support was lacking... in one instance, I had to be transferred 3 times and was on the phone for no less than 45 minutes about the elastic shipping thing.... this tech guy didn't know, so he had to get this other techy, several times over, blah blah blah, to finally get to the guru, who informed me that it is not possible to do such a thing with their present system.... oy.

Aside from that, I'm trying to avoid "monthlies" to keep cost down, but I think that is probably not going to be possible given my level of expertise, or rather, the lack thereof. :/
 
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mads said:
As the other posters have pointed out: If you don't want to deal with code, use a hosted system. When you use a hosted system, you couldn't care less if it's run on Linux or Windows, if it uses PHP or ASP on the server-side, etc. As long as it's a good shop.

I have never done any T-shirt shop designs for clients before, but I have used Shopify for setting up very simple storefronts. You can use pre-built themes or create your own look and feel with HTML and CSS. They have a 30-day trial, so you can check it out and see what you think.

There is also BigCartel, which is used by one of my favorite T-shirt shops: Ugmonk. I have never used it myself, so I don't know how easy things are to set up, but a lot of online T-shirt shops are using it. That sometimes speaks for itself.
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A good shop. Precisely what I'm looking for.... :) It appears that we seem to have expensive/complex taste. lol.
Ugmonk is great! I really dig their shirts... Definitely ordering "& then I woke up!" haha. it's the story of my life... thanks!
 
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I agree with some of the other posters, you probably need to look at hosted ecommerce like bigcartel. An option that can reduce the pain is to get an oscommerce or zencart ecommerce template, then modifications would be minor compared to starting a zencart from scratch.

Zen Cart Templates | Zencart Templates | Zen Cart Skins | Template Monster

Another option is to pay a developer to customize your cart, can be $500 & up though..
 
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Another Problem with GoDaddy Shopping cart....

You can't keep inventory according to size, only style. Like If I sold a Red sailboat tee, and had 20 in stock, I could list that, but not how many of each size, which complicates things.
 
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Like a few posters have said above... take a look at BigCartel, I also have a BigCartel site and I have done everything so far and I am in no way a web designer / developer. We are also using go daddy for hosting on the new site my son is building but will also keep the BigCartel site up. For the $19.99 monthly fee I think it works perfect, plus I get a few hits and some sales from the BigCartel community.

Same here Rodney, if this is inappropriate to post please let me know.
 
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I think paypal is the only option I might be wrong though from last time using it. Bigcartel is a good option for you just starting up since you don't want to deal with coding and design but it is also expensive and very limited. But some people do a good job using bigcartel.
 
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Big Cartel only has two themes? I'm not having a lot of luck finding others... And I have to use paypal? oh geez.

Has anyone used Big Commerce? Any thoughts?
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You may want to search through the forums to see if there are other threads on BigCommerce.

With BigCartel, you can customize the themes to look however you want (or hire someone to do it for you if you're not familiar with HTML). I think they offer the basic themes to get you up and running as soon as possible.

If you don't want to use PayPal, you have to have your own merchant account. Once you have your own merchant account, you can use just about any shopping cart (like CubeCart, Oscommerce, Magento, etc
 
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CS Cart,

I was complete newb toecommerce 1 year ago and like you no knowledge at all, now I have 7 sites learning curve but mine alll miiiiiineee ah aha h.

and cs cart have a good cs cart forum of users to help you out and they have about 20 themes.

(no I am not part of cs)

JOhn
 
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