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Originally Posted by id10t
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various google searching will turn up lots of reviews, best-of lists, etc.
I'd recommend start by building a linux machine in virtual box, setting up the LAMP stack, and trying a few of them to see what meets your needs. Focus on the tasks that you will have to do lots of - it may be a pain to set up an initial template, but you only do that once in a while. Managing your items, associated photos, processing orders, processing payments, etc. go on daily. Narrow it down to 2 or 3, then see what kind of user and developer communities each has. Then pick one, get a linode.com server, and set it all up for real.
In reality, I'd fire up a text editor and start coding.
But that is just the back end - what about what customers see?
For the actual web design - colors, fonts, etc. - I'd get a (semi)pro to set you up a template/css file/etc. Check the graphic design program at a local community college, etc.
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Once again, a foreign language to us neophytes. But I can see where hooking up with one of your types will get some of the job done.
The thing is, you have to have a target market and a way to reach them. Fancy graphics to me are only cake icing. For almost any product line, be it small or large, if it
don't sell on eBay, it
don't sell beyond the hobby seller level.
Once you grow your recognition, you can go on your own. That's all I know at this point. Try it. With a couple billion sites and all the
SEO promises, you might do better piggybacking on Facebook, eBay, etc, before trying to be a Pelican Parts.
BTW, they used eBay a lot, IIRC, to drive traffic to the home site. If Wayne wrote a book on this subject, it would be a chapter in the Internet bible.