WEBDESIGN - Adding an online shop to our company's website?

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PostWEBDESIGN - Adding an online shop to our company's website?
by LewisD » Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:01 pm

Hi guys,

I've been tasked with adding an online shop to our company website at work.
Unfortunately, as I'm the only one savvy enough with Photoshop to do anything, the website design is all handled by me.

We sell Truck/Van/Articulated trailer parts.
So, just so you can get a feel of what our shop needs to do or look like, one of our competitors is HGV Direct:
http://www.hgvdirect.co.uk/catalog/

Now, I must preface this request by saying that I don't know any HTML past what I've learned from eBay listings.
So, Bold, Italics and New Paragraphs :lol:.
And I don't know any programming, so we're doing well so far.

Is there any software, or anything that is a kind of drag'n'drop template sort of thing?
I just create the pages, insert the photos, description and price etc?

Or any other advice is greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Lewis

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PostRe: WEBDESIGN - Adding an online shop to our company's website?
by Errkal » Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:09 pm

Drop Gecko a PM.

Wordpress makes for a good base and there are loads of plugins for shops and listings and things.

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PostRe: WEBDESIGN - Adding an online shop to our company's website?
by Green Gecko » Fri Feb 19, 2016 1:13 pm

Genuinely came in thread to delete bot. :lol:

Wordpress + WooCommerce Plugin plus a theme from a marketplace like Theme forest. Then you can just do the product imagery and upload that easily and do the product descriptions etc in simple html or using visual editor (although I never use it, it works). The Wordpress framework is very good, especially the media manager.

It is a LOT of work just to do data entry for ecommerce yet alone stay on top of processing orders. You'll need about 100 hours to set up.

It's not drag and drop, but it's an infinitely better long term logistical option.

Don't call it Web design though. Content management ;)

Other options are OpenCart and Zen Cart or osCommerce.

Magento is overkill but very good.

If you really want drag and drop, Shopify will do it, but you're buying into restrictions and keeping the site captive on that service instead of keeping it mobile. Plus it's usually sort of obvious you're using it.

You must use e.g. PayPal for payment processing, although I recommend Stripe. Otherwise your business has to be PCI compliant which involves strict data protection and encryption and an audit.

Or hire me ben@bjum.uk

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PostRe: WEBDESIGN - Adding an online shop to our company's website?
by Errkal » Fri Feb 19, 2016 1:27 pm

Ban request, message is advertising another product or website.

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PostRe: WEBDESIGN - Adding an online shop to our company's website?
by Fatal Exception » Sat Feb 20, 2016 9:05 pm

I'd recommend WooCommerce. It's pretty easy to set up and configure.

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