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    Question Website Help Needed

    Hi guys, I hope someone can give me a lil' advice or point me in the right direction - I haven't made a web site in ages, I'm mainly only good with the design, and then the layout via Dreamweaver...and back then I was using tables for layouts etc, i need to get up to date with CSS.

    My friend has asked me to design a web site for him - he wants to sell car parts, but at the moment, as its new he isn't investing in any stock, he just wants a page where people can submit a request (car model, make, part needed etc) he gets the request, and then tries to source it... if he can, he emails them back with the details/price, a secure link/page where they can submit shipping address and payment for the amount of the part.

    what's the easiest way I can do this? I don't know any scripting or back end stuff, I dont mind paying for something cheap (script wise/shopping carts etc...and at the moment he doesn't mind taking payment via paypal for goods...i know they have an option where you can send a link for payment to some via email...can the buyers submit shipping address at the same time?

    any help appreciated...as I've never made a site that sells goods! so I'm just researching at the moment.

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    Re: Website Help Needed

    If your after a free e-commerce website, then OSCommerce is one option. Its PHP based, its a nightmare to work with (imo), but its free and used all over the net (a big giveaway that a site is based on it is the /acatalog link that you see when browsing - OCUK used to use it until they upgraded).

    You don't need decent HTML skills to use the default templates with it, but they do help, and you will need to know some PHP.

    Looking down the (imo vastly superior) .NET route you have something like DotNetNuke, which has numerous e-commerce modules available for it. Take a look at www.dotnetnuke.com for some more information about dnn, but as with OSCommerce this does again require some programming knowledge..although its C# you would have to learn rather than PHP.

    These are both pretty much off the shelf products that neeed a little modification to make them work as you like, so may not be suitable for you. There may be a much simpler way though.

    He doesn't need a proper online shop from what you have said - so it may be a simple case of putting up a single page website which has an "email me" link, and then he can setup a paypal account and use that to recieve payments and order information. That should be very easy to do, and requires no scripting or server sidecode at all - just a simple xHTML webpage with a mailto link

    Something as simple as this - i've not done any CSS for it but have spent a few seconds showing you the type of thing I mean.
    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
     <head>
      <title>Welcome to Car Parts LTD</title>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
     </head>
    	<body>
    
    		<div>
    			<div class="Title">
    			<h3>Welcome to Car Parts LTD!</h3>
                                           </div>
    			<br /><br />
    			<div class="bodyText">
    			Put a bunch of text here, and maybe some images
    			</div>
    			<br /><br /><br />
    		</div>
    		<div>
    			Click <a href="mailto:your@email.com" title="Email Us!">here</a> to email us with your requirements, and we'll get back to you asap!
    		</div>
    		<br /><br /><br /><br />
    		<div class="footer">
    			Car Parts LTD is registered in England and Wales, company number 1234567
    		</div>
    
    	</body>
    </html>

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    Re: Website Help Needed

    Spud! ur a gent, thanks for the advice and tips, i'll look in to it...i think i'll prolly go with the paypal route for now...

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    Re: Website Help Needed

    paypal offer a simple to use shopping cart that can be easily integrated in a static site but it is easy 2 alter the costs so watch out for people doing that.

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    Re: Website Help Needed

    A simple prestashop would work, it's easy to set up.

    You could have a contact page for the details, once he finds it, he can list it on there and email them the link

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