Hi, I just found this website and looks like something that would be good to use.

Anyway I was doing a CIW course a few yrs back, a home study thing but the course providers went bust last Summer, so lost all my money and any qualifications I would have gained. That and the course material was terrible.

I've been out of a job for over a year now but done evening courses to learn dreamweaver, flash, photoshop. They dont go into these in too much detail and never cover anything to do with an online shop.

 

My mother opened a horse shop, feed, tack, clothing etc and she wants me to create an online shop for her asap. It's a small shop but we hope to sell a lot on there. She doesnt want to get a professional to do it, she wants me to learn from it etc.

I am however clueless as to where to begin. We want an online shop where people can purchase using paypal, credit cards etc

Where do I begin, i want to be able to use dreamweaver cs5.

Do i design the site, leaving bits blank for the shopping cart, or do i purchase a shopping cart package first.

Any ideas in what order i should do things.

Thanks in advance.

 

Im hoping once the site is done, i will work on my own business which will include many things.

Take a look at this thread, it lists a few off the best open source shopping cart software.

 

http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/topic/8-open-source-shopping-cart-scripts/

hi

I advice you to use prestashop ecommerce script. it is free. they have good quality of support.

I'm pretty sure you can get an e-commerce plugin for wordpress.

thanks for your replies but im still wondering where do i start. i only really know how to use dreamweaver but where to start with making a shop site. i can get the photos/prices of the products, sort them out so there in different catergories. Do i make the website first with all the different pages, etc or do i choose a shopping cart, somehow add this to dreamweaver, i dont know. i dont have a clue sorry. any help please.