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What is the cost to make a webpage to sell you knives from. I have someone that can do the coding already. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I highly suggest Hostgator. It can be as low as a few bucks a month. Figure out a good domain name and be flexible with the .com, .net, .us aspect and you can usually get a good deal on that aspect as well. Don't waste money with extra services when it comes to the domain, you get all those through your hosting provider. Hostgator can handle all of that and for your coder it has all the usual software packages and excellent service and support if he or she wants to setup something not already installed. Domain prices vary but are generally very reasonable if you don't tack on stupid stuff. I believe host gator charges $15 for a one year registration of a .com address, which is very competitive but probably not the absolute lowest out there. If you went with their hosting it has the simplicity of being a preconfigured setup but that's a minor issue. I can't comment on their domain work since I haven't used them for that yet. I registered mine before they entered that part of the business.
As already mentioned, paypal makes life easy for selling on a web site, there's no reason to use anything else unless you expect to do serious volume as a full retail store.
I pay about $10 a month for excellent hosting of multiple domains with host gator and have been with them almost since their beginning. They're actually an offshoot of a corporate server farm and hosting company, you're not dealing with a reseller or fly by night like many hosting companies these days. Heck, about a third of the "hosting" companies out there are really just reselling hostgator.
As already mentioned, paypal makes life easy for selling on a web site, there's no reason to use anything else unless you expect to do serious volume as a full retail store.
I pay about $10 a month for excellent hosting of multiple domains with host gator and have been with them almost since their beginning. They're actually an offshoot of a corporate server farm and hosting company, you're not dealing with a reseller or fly by night like many hosting companies these days. Heck, about a third of the "hosting" companies out there are really just reselling hostgator.
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Thanks for the advice. I'll have to check that out.
Yup. I use Wordpress now, just switched from Joomla so it's still pretty much the generic install. No sales directly via my site, but in the past I've just used paypal for that regardless of what content management software was being used. I'll have to take a look at wp-ecommerce. I'm a bit of a WP newbie still, last time I'd looked it was just another blog software package that had a lot of premade templates because a couple of the popular free blog sites used it. Obviously that's changed over the past few years. 
I still use B2Evolution for my blogs and unless I have to rebuild them I won't change over, but I'm liking Wordpress.
If you're willing to explore a bit and google search things when you run into issues, almost anyone can make it work. The software has lots of built in help and instructions and you really can just pick a pre-made template, insert your color choices and banner pic using the included interface and just go from there. It can be very easy or you can get down into the nitty gritty, but basic setup for a noobie is an easy weekend project from signing up for hosting and registering a domain to having a working site and maybe even the payment interface for paypal.
I still use B2Evolution for my blogs and unless I have to rebuild them I won't change over, but I'm liking Wordpress.If you're willing to explore a bit and google search things when you run into issues, almost anyone can make it work. The software has lots of built in help and instructions and you really can just pick a pre-made template, insert your color choices and banner pic using the included interface and just go from there. It can be very easy or you can get down into the nitty gritty, but basic setup for a noobie is an easy weekend project from signing up for hosting and registering a domain to having a working site and maybe even the payment interface for paypal.
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I opened a wordpress blog to hold a presence and plan to sell here on BF mostly, which gets WAY more traffic than I ever will anyway. We'll see how that goes.
I'm a software engineer when the sun is up and I tell ya, I really don't want to have to keep a custom site current with my knives as they come and go. That's a whole 'nother level of either trouble or software.
Though I'd be open to suggestions too.
-Daziee
I'm a software engineer when the sun is up and I tell ya, I really don't want to have to keep a custom site current with my knives as they come and go. That's a whole 'nother level of either trouble or software.
Though I'd be open to suggestions too.
-Daziee
I use mine as just a web presence and place for folks who already know about me to check out what's new. It's not how I expect to sell. I treat my Facebook page the same way, it gets attention but mostly from folks who already have my work or friends and associates. I do get occasional orders from folks who saw my stuff there so it's not a waste, I just don't think it's worth a ton of time.
That's why I switched to Wordpress rather than joomla, it's a lot easier to update and manage for this kind of site. Since I'm not setting up a catalog type site the blog format works nicely to showcase the newest work or post new information. Joomla's better than doing it by hand, but is still fairly clunky. WordPress seems to be pretty efficient from a user's point of view. I found it much easier to upload and display images at different sizes, which was obviously a major part of what a knife site is. Joomla never made that particularly streamlined.
That's why I switched to Wordpress rather than joomla, it's a lot easier to update and manage for this kind of site. Since I'm not setting up a catalog type site the blog format works nicely to showcase the newest work or post new information. Joomla's better than doing it by hand, but is still fairly clunky. WordPress seems to be pretty efficient from a user's point of view. I found it much easier to upload and display images at different sizes, which was obviously a major part of what a knife site is. Joomla never made that particularly streamlined.