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Graham
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16th Jun 04 at 13:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
im setting up a new website, small business. the actual business wont be going live for a while but i need to get the site designed. firstly can anyone give me anytips, sites etc for templates (preferably free). also where can i get the scripts for when customers fill out a form and click submit to place an order. any help is much appreciated. u ca either u2u on here or email me at graham461@hotmail.com
Adam
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By the sounds of it you have never designed a site before, if it's going to be a corporate website it's probably not going to be a good idea to do this yourself but maybe better to get a professional to do it for you
Joff
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16th Jun 04 at 13:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Do a search on Google for web templates - there's so many available to give you inspiration and you can normally subscribe to the whole site for about £40.

For Javascript check out http://www.dynamicdrive.com

For general coding tips - http://www.w3schools.com
Graham
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i have done sites before, but only one like geocities where i get a template and use them as images that way. but that was a long time ago now. cheers joff dynamicdrive was my first option
Jodi_the_g
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Its quite hard to create a shop cart
Joff
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Nah it's not
Jodi_the_g
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it is if you only every used geocities before
Adam
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what about a shopping cart you pay for the good on and actually recieve them?
Joff
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam
what about a shopping cart you pay for the good on and actually recieve them?


Yup that's easy too.
Dan B
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Make it compatible with ALL browsers......one thing I hate is sites that are "optimised for use with Internet Explorer and Netscape".

If a "shop" site doesn't work at all in Opera, that I normally use, I would refuse to buy anything from them on principle...
Joff
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I refuse to use Opera because it sucks ass.
Graham
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thats what im after, where they chose what they want, fill in their details etc and it gets sent to us, we make the product and dispatch it out. like i said its going to be a made to order business mainly specialising in custom t-shirts
Jodi_the_g
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i refuse to use anything bar internet expolxer becuase that come with my pc
Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan B
Make it compatible with ALL browsers......one thing I hate is sites that are "optimised for use with Internet Explorer and Netscape".

If a "shop" site doesn't work at all in Opera, that I normally use, I would refuse to buy anything from them on principle...


lol gimp well since its about 95% of people use IE, i think your in the loss mate Netscape and IE are the big runners, and then its all the other linux type broswers...if they work create, but little time is spent getting them to look perfect, unlike IE/netscape.

But yes, its a big job, especially if you coming from template world geocities etc etc You can design a site, but the shopping cart side is the hardest. Although i would personally sign up to a shopping cart website, where you pay a monthly/yearly fee and then just upload images and info about a product and the site takes care of the rest

best bet, google around for company sites similar to what you want to do and see what they have done and how, then base it loosly around a few of those
Ian
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quote:
Originally posted by VisibleMan
since its about 95% of people use IE
That figure is falling, and will continue to do so. Ignore standards at your peril!
Steve
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Ian STFU dont act like u own or run a site
Joff
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Stopped using IE 6 about a month ago.

For some reason XP decided I didn't need my address bars in Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer, so typing in URL's is a bit of a problem!

So I'm now using Mozilla Firefox and it's a lot happier
rimstyle
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If you want to setup a cart, look at templates like Oscommerce and Xcart. Oscommerce is the easier option, but Xcart is much more flexible to customise.
Graham
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any adresses on the above ??
what about price range ive seen some from $10 to $6995
Jodi_the_g
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www.roman.co.uk, free
rimstyle
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www.oscommerce.com
www.x-cart.com

I think oscommerce is free. Awesome Gti use it so you can check out there online shop to get a feel for it. As for X-Cart is costs $185.00 which is about £120.00, but your paying for the flexibility. But I warn you X-Cart can get complicated!
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I created this Catalogue for a friend of my brothers, spent a long time on it, and he specifically stated he didnt want to Take orders on it, but rather have it to show his stock. Therefore it was more simple, run through all the items in the database, pull out the details, create the image thumbnail on the fly, spurge it out as an html table

However after all my hard work you can see he has put in 5 items, he has a simple admin page to type in product details and upload an image (Any Jpeg image, size doesnt matter etc)

Makes me
ed
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Originally posted by barry_kellett99
I created this Catalogue for a friend of my brothers, spent a long time on it, and he specifically stated he didnt want to Take orders on it, but rather have it to show his stock. Therefore it was more simple, run through all the items in the database, pull out the details, create the image thumbnail on the fly, spurge it out as an html table

However after all my hard work you can see he has put in 5 items, he has a simple admin page to type in product details and upload an image (Any Jpeg image, size doesnt matter etc)

Makes me

Same problem here. I got asked to do a website for my sisters business... Done it all in PHP with MySql, and she has never updated it once...
Dan B
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Originally posted by Joff
I refuse to use Opera because it sucks ass.

Yes, I have noticed that www.pvdalloys.co.uk does not conform to Opera-standards!
Joff
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Doesn't conform to any standards

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