Website and etc. help!

[greycat]

Ok, so my husband and i want our own site; he wants to sell his music and i want to sell my art. SO, we want to design our own site...but we need e-commerce abilities too...also, who has good, inexpensive web hosting? I am wading through info. but havent gotten any closer to any answers or decisions. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to go about this and where to go? Thanks in advance!  

[Sportsdude]

TB would be the best person to ask, greycat. Good Luck!  

[greenbird told me]

Free open source web authoring system. Not an Adobe Dreamweaver, but still good as!
[a href="vny!://www.nvu.com/index.php"]vny!://www.nvu.com/index.php[/a]

Free reliable open source e-commerce. My friend uses and recommends.
[a href="vny!://www.oscommerce.com/"]vny!://www.oscommerce.com/[/a]

About inexpensive web hostings, do some research on the internet, there are plenty. There are some good free web hostings too, but you know, they go down sometimes. I've been been using [a href="10xhosting.com"]10xhosting.com[/a] and have no complaints. Here's a list of free web hostings:
[a href="vny!://www.free-webhosts.com/webhosting-01.php"]vny!://www.free-webhosts.com/webhosting-01.php[/a]

 

[Sawdust]

Good thoughts Greenbird, here are a couple more.

  Bravenet is a site full of 'free' hosting, design, templates and much more. Free is free if you don't mind it being ad supported, of course you can always remove the ads for a fee:) I don't have a website but I have been getting their e mail tips & tricks for quite a while now, and it looks interesting. They keep adding new tools. Worth checking out.

  [A href="vny!://www.bravenet.com/"]vny!://www.bravenet.com/[/A]

  There are a lot of e commerce solutions out there, but there is still a certain lack of trust in security issues so maybe looking at a trusted solution like CMNGT* might be an option.

  And that's my Sunday morning 2 ¢ worth. Let us know your website when you get it going, Good Luck!    

[greycat]

Thanks for providing some options, i know there are tons on the internet but i want to know someone who is personally using a good provider for the type of site i want. Its just too confusing, there are so many. We need image and sound support and e-commerce capabilities...no templates, we want to design our own site. No ads either. We also want reliability so providing examples of companies you folks actually use, helps.  

[greenbird told me]

Did you actually have a look at the links I posted?
Nvu is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) html editor, you can create your own web pages using it.

osCommerce is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License.

Here are some features that seem to interest you the most:
[ul][li]Design / Layout     [ul][li]Template struture implementation to:         [ul][li style="font-weight: bold;"]allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make (MS3)[/li][li style="font-weight: bold;"]allow easy integration into an existing site (MS3)[/li][/ul]       [/li][li]Support for dynamic images[/li][li]Support for dynamic images (one image per product).[/li][li]Supports physical products as well as product downloads.
[/li][/ul]   [/li][/ul]And many more, just read their website...

You want a cheap and reliable server, remember, you get what you pay for. Ask the administrator of this site which host he signed up for. Regarding those free web hostings, most of them have _no_forced_ads_. I use the basic plan of [a href="vny!://www.x10hosting.com/"]x10hostings.com[/a] (typed it wrongly in the previous post) and I'm very happy with it (unless when it goes down, rarely, it's free hey).

Now if you want to design your own website and e-commerce from scratch, learn HTML, PHP or ASP, MySQL, some jvascript, master a graphics editor and you're ok to go.  

[greenbird told me]

Oh and the most important, make sure the web hosting has support for PHP or ASP and MySQL.  

[my opinion]

 I think Tehborken is the person you should ask about this...