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GoldRapt wrote:Looks good, is it a template or did you do it all from scratch flash?
I believe you can pay some group of blokes in asia about £300 and they do everything for you. £300s alot mind.

Hi GoldRapt,
As you can see I am using Opencart and I paid for the template from one of the many resources out there. I then just 'rushed-up' a banner and put it up.
I have yet to add a lot of product and add some more information on the 'About Us' page but it is functional, I think!
There are also a lot of 'Modules' I can add to spice the site up, I will be looking into these over the Christmas break.
I have been down a lot of roads in the past but I am finding Opencart quite easy to work with and I think the resulting site is quite 'clean' looking. The 'back-end' is also fairly easy to work with.
Ideally I would like something 'purpose built' but I have had quotes for this in the past and for what I would really like it would cost me ££££££££'s. So for now I will stick with this and work with it to see how 'bespoke' I can get it to look.

Phil

Can I ask how much you have had to pay out so far please as a gudie for the rest of us?
Ive never been able to find a template that matched what I wanted, for example mug shop or personalised gift shop so Im glad you were able to find a template.

GoldRapt wrote:Can I ask how much you have had to pay out so far please as a gudie for the rest of us?
Ive never been able to find a template that matched what I wanted, for example mug shop or personalised gift shop so Im glad you were able to find a template.

No Problem, $9.95 so £6 odd 8) And quite a lot of time

Phil

I think the site looks great flash!

I would tell anyone not to get Linesave or Domglobal to do their website design. Linesave are basically c**p and Domglobal promised us when he started designing the website back in June that it would be up and running within 2 weeks - we are still waiting. The design itself is good and although customers can view the website they are not able to order anything. So yet another xmas without a website!!!

I think that when the site is up and running properly it will work well as we have had plenty of customers asking us about the site (and how they tried to order but couldn't!!!).


Beginning to wish i had done it all myself but thought i would be lazy and get someone else to do it. Serves me right i suppose.

just trying to sort mine at the moment, its a long process for me, and i have a friend helping who runs a very very big commercial website, and as he is doing it for free, i cant complain, but i need to get it up and running.

the main problem with a t shirt website, is anything "original" soon ends up on 1001 websites

That's always the case unfortunately, many moons ago when I first advertised on ebay there was one other supplier offering items similar to my own, there are now about 30 in Cornwall and elsewhere so I don't do it now. They can still of course go to the site but hey ho not a lot I can do about it.
It is annoyin tho, we have another business and a guy stole the site word for word with exception of his name on the home page. Mad as heck we were but it was funny as it talked about our little town etc etc and he was in India!
Cheeky so and so, but we soon sorted that out!

mrs maggot wrote:just trying to sort mine at the moment, its a long process for me, and i have a friend helping who runs a very very big commercial website, and as he is doing it for free, i cant complain, but i need to get it up and running.

the main problem with a t shirt website, is anything "original" soon ends up on 1001 websites

Try sticking a few of your 'originals' on Ebay

Phil

no thanks ebay is not for me -

mrs maggot wrote:no thanks ebay is not for me -

I once had that attitude towards Ebay!
Twelve weeks ago I gave it a go as trade in our shop dived to an all time low
All I can say is i'm glad I did 8) It takes a little while to learn the 'game' and believe me it is a game, but if you persist it pays for your Christmas. If you really try you can also use it to drive great traffic to your website, we have.
In 12 weeks we have sold almost 1000 yes 1000 items This has been welcome trade in these tough trading times!

Phil