[Acknowledged74]

Hi

I have a friend who has an existing website, which was built using BT hosting templates. He needs to add an online shop, that can deal with around 300 products some in several colours, and will work with his existing merchant account, what would you suggest using?

The key is the design needs to be the same as the existing website, just with the shopping backet elements added to the sidebar, so a CMS that you can add E commerce too, rather than say Os Commerce and a E commerce type 3 column structure, maybe best.

I have managed to replicate the design fairly easily with WP and added the WP-Ecommerce plugins, however I have been told and read that WP isn't really the best thing to use for selling online as its limited. If you have used WP as an E commerce setup and it works well please let me know.

So anyway, my friends isn't wonderful on computers and will need to run this after I've done the setup, so it needs to be fairly easy to run, and I believe that Magenta though great is very difficult to run.

I think once the site has been setup and only things that will need changing are products details, so know actually structural issues/alterations ongoing, heopfully. I have been told that there are issues with Joomla and Virtue cart, that it has many bugs, do people find this to be the case?

Drupal, Joomla, Magenta, WP or other ?

any ideas?

Thanks

Ash

[QUICKLYWEB]

I would say oscommerce will be the best. And it shouldn't be really difficult to integrate oscommerce in to your current design.

[TopShopper]

See what you think of TopShopper.

[DamianH]

Same would apply to x-cart, download, install and then begin skinning your website design onto the x-cart software. However its not the easiest of code to skin, will take time to understand what bits do what and how.

[Acknowledged74]

To be fair what I am actually asking,(maybe I should have asked in the CMS area rather than E commerce) is what CMS system has the best plugin or addition ?