Web design Software for E-Commerce website

[MacDiesel12]

Could someone please tell me some names of good software to create a professional looking e-commerce webite with relative ease? I am in IT but I have no web design experience. Me and a buddy are starting an online business. We want to sell on ebay and we would also like to have a website for customers to be able to purchase from. I have poked around a bit, but I am not finding anything that is fairly easy to use AND professional looking.

 

[audiopro]

I always use Notepad - works every time for me. With a bit of practice, you'll be up to speed in no time.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[MacDiesel12]

Funny audiopro

 

[Foamcow]

Depending on what you want to do with the site and how much you wish to customise the 'out of the box' set up take a look at Zen Cart and Magento.

These are both self hosted solutions. If you want something hosted and looks great try shopify.com.

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[Foamcow]

Forgot one... you might also want to look at Trading Eye. I've not used it but heard good things.


More info on Magento - it's hard work! Very powerful but hard to customise.

Zen Cart - Easy to customise a bit, fairly easy to set up but the versions I have worked with were a bit like Spaghetti code. So long as you don't want to change too much you'll be OK.

Not used Shopify.com either but I have heard good things in the past and the stores all look professional.

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[audiopro]

You seem to have mis-understood me, I wasn't being funny. I use notepad and wordpad to write HTML and PERL code, as do many website designers.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[MacDiesel12]

Thanks Foamcow! Great Info. audiopro...I figured you were being funny because in my post I stated I wanted something fairly easy. Writing my own code isn't too easy for me. Thanks though.

 

[Sleidia]

Some others :

http://www.prestashop.com/

http://virtuemart.net/

http://www.ubercart.org/

 

[MacDiesel12]

These suggestions are shopping carts. Are they also web site builders?

 

[white605]

I used pdgsoft. its a shopping cart also, but has the ability to create a simple site as well thru its use of templates and a back end. The company will put a skin on the site for you once for no charge. (at the time i purchased).

It would be wise to look around and know what you want the end result to look like and function like before contacting any vendor about whether or not their package will do what you need and want.
wjwjr

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[Foamcow]

If you just want a shopping cart and considering using Paypal for payments then you can use Paypal's shopping cart.

They do all the heavy lifing, you just write HTML.

I don't really like working with Paypal with my own custom cart but their shopping cart thing looks quite useful.

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[imeldesign]

I'll give my two cents...if you are on a mac I would suggest Rapidweaver using the payloom plugin that works with paypal. Sorry it is mac only but the templates and easy of putting up a great little template based website can't be beat and it comes with several templates plus to buy others is relatively cheap. The plus side is that if you know css the customizing is very simple.
Dreamweaver can be learned as you go just stick with some of the pre-made templates for layout. You can then used paypal code for your carts. Take a higher learning curve but you have more options.