bishbosh
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Can you recomend the following please:
Good place to get a domaine and web space ie. cheap, good helplines/Emails.
Forums that help with creating a website.
and any advice, im wanting to start an online business, so need to be able to take payments, emails and be available on a google search.
Thanks for any positive help guys...
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Brett
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Such a bad starting point. Without trying to be too negative, it sounds like it's destined for failure. You don't know how to create a website and you're wanting a full e-commerce system and expecting people to buy from you. If it looks shoddy and amateur, chances are people won't.
My advice, stick to the back end and organise whatever goods it is you're selling, and let a professional experienced company do the front end.
Just my thoughts.
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James
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Completely agree.
It needs to be robust and well designed. It's unlikely you will be able to achieve either if you aren't seriously into web design/development.
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Sam
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Unfortunately "cheap" and "good" are rarely found in the same sentence when it comes to hosting/website design.
If you are serious about starting an "online business" then, as cheesy as this line sounds, 'you have to spend money to make money'...
To give you an example, I would charge a minimum of £650 for a complete bespoke ecommerce system with domain name registration and hosting on a fast UK based server for a year.
[/end of plug] 
Seriously though, if you want to do your own website, you will need to be extremely profecient in HTML/PHP/JavaScript, this is something that takes years to achieve not hours or days.
If I were you, as has been already said in this thread, just pay a professional experienced company to do it for you.
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Laney
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From my experience, companies charge a minimum of £5k for this kind of thing.
Just so you know how much to expect ....
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Sam
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^ PMSL
Although if the company developed an integrated warehouse/stock control system then yes I suppose that sort of price is roughly correct.
[Edited on 19-09-2008 by Sam]
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James
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quote:
Originally posted by Laney
From my experience, companies charge a minimum of £5k for this kind of thing.
Just so you know how much to expect ....
For £5k I would expect something not far off Amazon.
Sam's £650 is quite cheap. Most would be somewhere in between those 2 prices.
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Laney
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quote:
Originally posted by James
quote:
Originally posted by Laney
From my experience, companies charge a minimum of £5k for this kind of thing.
Just so you know how much to expect ....
For £5k I would expect something not far off Amazon.
Sam's £650 is quite cheap. Most would be somewhere in between those 2 prices.
Depends if you're going to a guy in his back room or company doing biz-to-biz.
Every company I've worked for wouldn't touch CMS work for less than £5k ....
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AdZ9
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My dads business just paid £7k for their site, but that has a major background system and its an e-commerce site dealing with alot of expensive equipment, its a massive shop thing like amazon.
Most of that prob 6k was the system, rest was design
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Sam
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My prices are only cheap because I don't have high overheads (at the moment).
My market is SMEs, in particular start-ups who haven't got a budget of several grand for an ecommerce system.
But that's not to say I do a crap/mediocre job - if I did, I soon would end up with zero customers on a regular basis. 
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AdZ9
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got a portfolio up Sam?
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ed
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For £650 I'd install OS Commerce and change the colours about a bit. There's a lot of work in making a bespoke system, and it's pretty boring stuff...
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