Building/Designing a website. Need advice/ resources
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Business/e-commerce......Need something for advertisement, and a way for people to purchase products, have some content, etc..... Just needs to be something basic. Have several suby parts that I sell with a lot more on the way.
Between the day job, building products after hours, building/designing product in solidworks, and dealing with suppliers I just dont have the time and energy to put into building a website unfortunately.
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Funny thing is... I'm a designer and I need to sit down with someone and do a portfolio site. LOL! I just don't have the time to mess with it. I've got a couple half *** web portfolios. I need a real one.
LOL! I guess I'll get my *** in gear and compile the samples and just do it.
oh... and if you're not planing on learning web design to make web sites for any in particular reason why not go template based? You can do some cool stuff with template services. Cheap.
I'm thinking about doing a nice wordpress based one for my portfolio so I can manage it from my phone.
LOL! I guess I'll get my *** in gear and compile the samples and just do it.
oh... and if you're not planing on learning web design to make web sites for any in particular reason why not go template based? You can do some cool stuff with template services. Cheap.
I'm thinking about doing a nice wordpress based one for my portfolio so I can manage it from my phone.
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if you are looking for book lernin', I would suggest trying out the Lynda books. I have always had good luck with them and have learned a good foundation of Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and In Design via those books.
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Make sure you don't get into the bad habit of building a site with tables. Here's a good series of videos for how to build a valid XHTML tableless layout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpYC1fN2BHM
bumping this cause of this thread:
https://www.i-club.com/forums/bay-ar...bsites-233652/
if anyone wants to get into the ecommerce game, let me know, i have 4 years experience and currently admin an online store for a tool distributor as well as advertising and product listings. so i have plenty of advice to give and insight in the industry.
https://www.i-club.com/forums/bay-ar...bsites-233652/
if anyone wants to get into the ecommerce game, let me know, i have 4 years experience and currently admin an online store for a tool distributor as well as advertising and product listings. so i have plenty of advice to give and insight in the industry.
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bumping this cause of this thread:
https://www.i-club.com/forums/bay-ar...bsites-233652/
if anyone wants to get into the ecommerce game, let me know, i have 4 years experience and currently admin an online store for a tool distributor as well as advertising and product listings. so i have plenty of advice to give and insight in the industry.
https://www.i-club.com/forums/bay-ar...bsites-233652/
if anyone wants to get into the ecommerce game, let me know, i have 4 years experience and currently admin an online store for a tool distributor as well as advertising and product listings. so i have plenty of advice to give and insight in the industry.
yeah zencart is just "meh" imo. i've never used it because it never supported everything we wanted.
in all honesty, you might want to look at bigcartel.com, they do exactly what you want for a monthly fee. if not, i can help you look into other options. PMs are best for me.
in all honesty, you might want to look at bigcartel.com, they do exactly what you want for a monthly fee. if not, i can help you look into other options. PMs are best for me.
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yeah zencart is just "meh" imo. i've never used it because it never supported everything we wanted.
in all honesty, you might want to look at bigcartel.com, they do exactly what you want for a monthly fee. if not, i can help you look into other options. PMs are best for me.
in all honesty, you might want to look at bigcartel.com, they do exactly what you want for a monthly fee. if not, i can help you look into other options. PMs are best for me.
feel free to PM me with info on what you're wanting to do and i can give you my opinions/ideas.
i manage larger scale distribution, so for smaller personal ecommerce, it's easy to use someone's service.
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I'm sure myself and my partner could use someone with your kind of skills at some point.
We have a good amount of front-end and back-end experience between the two of us, but we haven't dove into the whole ecommerce realm yet. I have a Murach book that covers all about it but haven't had time to dig into it.
Are you going to BAM tomorrow? Maybe we can exchange cards / info.
I'm sure myself and my partner could use someone with your kind of skills at some point.
We have a good amount of front-end and back-end experience between the two of us, but we haven't dove into the whole ecommerce realm yet. I have a Murach book that covers all about it but haven't had time to dig into it.
Are you going to BAM tomorrow? Maybe we can exchange cards / info.
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