Ecommerce Website recommendations

**realityhack** · 8 October 2009, 10:56

Originally posted by weboo View Post

I need to get up and running cheaply and quickly with an ecommerce website that I can hook into something like google checkout. I am starting from scratch and will need a domain, hosting, simple design with ablity to manage content and payments securely. Anyone got any recommendations? experiences?

Get yourself a domain and hosting, install the self-hosted Wordpress app (took me about 10 min), then get the wordpress e-commerce plugin from instinct, and start populating your site with content, choosing a theme, getting stuck into the CSS (or getting a designer who specialises in WP templates to do the CSS), and you're away.

Many WP sites are so cleverly designed you can hardly tell it's a blog CMS. Where are you based? If it's London I can recommend some designers.

EDIT: For domain/hosting I (and others) recommend easily.co.uk - get the Linux package.

**bogeyman** · 8 October 2009, 12:24

PrestaShop pretty much beats the pants off all of them.

http://www.prestashop.com/

And it's free, Looks great right out of the box, classy templates, etc.

**DimPrawn** · 8 October 2009, 13:04

Originally posted by bogeyman View Post

PrestaShop pretty much beats the pants off all of them.

http://www.prestashop.com/

And it's free, Looks great right out of the box, classy templates, etc.

Wow, that looks good.

**bogeyman** · 8 October 2009, 13:54

Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Wow, that looks good.

It is - and it's fully customisable.

**DimPrawn** · 8 October 2009, 14:14

Originally posted by bogeyman View Post

It is - and it's fully customisable.

If only it were .NET/C#

**bogeyman** · 8 October 2009, 14:24

Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

If only it were .NET/C#

It's a feasible port.

**DimPrawn** · 8 October 2009, 14:31

Originally posted by bogeyman View Post

It's a feasible port.

Was actually thinking of paying some foreign chap to port all the features to ASP.NET MVC / C#

**bogeyman** · 8 October 2009, 14:45

Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Was actually thinking of paying some foreign chap to port all the features to ASP.NET MVC / C#

Would love to oblige, but regrettably I'm not some 'foreign chap', so couldn't do it for fourpence-hapenny.

**TheFaQQer** · 8 October 2009, 18:13

Originally posted by realityhack View Post

Get yourself a domain and hosting, install the self-hosted Wordpress app (took me about 10 min), then get the wordpress e-commerce plugin from instinct, and start populating your site with content, choosing a theme, getting stuck into the CSS (or getting a designer who specialises in WP templates to do the CSS), and you're away.

Many WP sites are so cleverly designed you can hardly tell it's a blog CMS. Where are you based? If it's London I can recommend some designers.

EDIT: For domain/hosting I (and others) recommend easily.co.uk - get the Linux package.

WHS

Or look at OS Commerce.

Ecommerce Website recommendations