Webshop development... anyone?

[European-DJ]

Hi People.

As a resolution for my 20th birthday, i have promised myself to start my webshop - i wanted to start this for a long time now.

I have been looking over some wordpress templates, and found one i really like.

My question is, how is wordpress for webshop hosting? is it a bad idea?
And is it hard to set up a Ecommerce theme on wordpress, and make it work?

Regards.

btw. If anyone here offer webshop soulutions, fell free to pm me.

 

[backbreaker]

I own a web development company. I have to say I don't understand the term webshop i have never heard that. what are you selling? when i hear web shop i think of a shop that builds websites. or do you mean a site that sales items that is online?

I'm not a fan of wordpress. first beucase all their templates are ****ty IMHO it's not very flexible. i hate the platform honestly. just not a fan. I mean if you are like rollo and you are just bllgging it's perfect but it's not built to do everything under the sun like people try to do with it.

If you are selling items online, as in actual items, Os commerce is 10000x better.

here is a site we did in os commerce, you can login to the admin panel below. this is 100% out the box no modules at all or custom work.

http://adyok.com/17994/
http://adyok.com/17994/admin
username: admin
password: admin

OS commerce gives you more design flexibility than WordPress does as well. That is my stickler with WordPress. A good looking WordPress site is an oxymoron.

 

[PrettyBoyA]

I'm no noob at computers but I'm not an expert either.
I took a web programming class in high school and I used to make sites in Dreamweaver in my spare time when I was young but that's about as far as I went with that.

I tried to use Prestashop and Open Cart (free software) but honestly... even though I was getting by.. it was all so complicated. Installing the software is hard enough.

Best decision I ever made was go to
www.shopify.com.au

I used to neglect the paid e-commerce software since I wanted to do it with as little capital as possible but trust me Shopify is worth it.
Try the 30 day trial just to see how easy it is.
If you don't want to spend a few thousand on getting a web designer to build everything for you, if you want to try and do it yourself for a small investment then I truly think it's worth it.

Just buy a theme for about $140, some of them look really good and they're customizable with colors/background etc

Sure there's Volusion as well but I haven't tried it personally so I can't recommend it but after using Shopify I can't imagine going back to do it manually.