[bennettskaya]

I am setting up a website. I learned some html and then I decided to get someone else to code the site. I specified that the site should be coded in HTML to keep things simple and allow me to manage it for the future when changing jpegs and written content.

At any one time there might be approximately 100 to 150 prints for sale on the site, grouped into five or so themes and I wanted to be able to show a group of thumbnails and when the user clicked on the thumbnail it brought up a larger version of the photo, with 'add to basket' etc. My idea was that when a buyer went to check-out, it would take the customer to Paypal's site via Paypal ‘Website Payments Standard’ and ‘Paypal Supplied Shopping Cart’

So what happened is that a couple of people said they could do the site with a Content Management System that would of course include an integrated shopping cart. That would involve using PHP or similar. I looked at some content management systems and saw there are some open-source ones like Joomla and Plone and I wondered whether I might be able to get my head around one of those and do the site myself but I don't think I could without devoting a huge amount of time to it. So now before I can move forward and decide what route to take I have these questions and I am not even sure I am asking the correct questions, but here goes:

1.What is the best way to code a site to keep it as small as possible bearing in mind it must have 100 to 150 jpegs on it?

2. Is there a clear advantage in coding in html or in using php or something like that with a content management system to keep the site small?

Any advice for this newbie most welcome and appreciated.

David

[Intrinzik.v2]

http://opensourcecms.com/index.php?o...tpage&Itemid=1


Go there and look around the e-commerce section. If your not interested in spending time to develop the site (20+ hours or so) then id be available for hire (Paid work of course).

[freelancr]

To be honest, why not just use Ebay? You can set up a "shop", get a wider audience, don't have to do any marketing, you say you are using Paypal anyway, so what do you have to lose?

In answer to your question, you would be better off using PHP/MySQL instead of static HTML. Be warned though, if you do use a downloadable shopping cart you will have to keep it up to date otherwise it WILL be hacked/defaced. Even seen cases of cubecart sites getting the payment address in the paypal payment gateway changed to something else.

But as you have little knowledge, or patience, you will have to pay someone else to do it - who in all likeliness will do a shit job of it because every fucker thinks they can be a web designer nowadays, and every client thinks it should be cheap.

[DJCyberRox]

many webhosts offer free shoppingcart systems. Maybe that would be what you are looking for.