I'd like to open a simple online store so that I can sell my items which I'm currently selling on ebay there instead. The ebay fees are cutting into my profits too much so I'm looking for a webhost that charges less than £5 ($10) a month. It must have a shopping cart, payment options and a sitebuilder so I don't have to use html. Also I don't want to sign up for a year so the £5 would have to be for one month on a 1 or 3 month contract. Ideally, I'd also like a free domain name and a 30 day money back guarantee.
It would be great if someone could let me know if there's a site out there for me. Thanks
2007-09-13 00:54:56 · 10 answers · asked by jenny84 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
http://www.JuicyHosting.com or http://www.LocoDomains.com , they both are very good
2007-09-13 05:40:48 · answer #1 · answered by tiffeny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi, Almost every shopping cart works from a MySQL database. I'm not too sure if Geocities has that. Their paid sites may but not their free ones. Also, shopping carts are usually written in PHP, so the HTML is often hidden. Most site builders on the hosting services probably can't handle this. Make sure you find out before committing. http://ar3host.com has a couple of shopping carts built in, but no site builder as such. The shopping carts would be up and running but you would need to modify them to suit your needs - logo, headlines etc. Have a look at Cube cart: http://www.cubecart.com/
for a small retailer or Zen Cart for a larger one: www.zen-cart.com/ (Both are free).
You could try a free site at http://at3host.com and move up to a paid one later if things work out. I'd run ebay and your new site in conjunction for a while. If you only have a few products, you can build a little shopping cart with a $40 site builder at http://wysiwygwebbuilder.com. There's a free demo of the web builder, but you have to pay your $40 to get access to the shopping cart feature. There is a demo there under Extensions though. I use WebBuilder for all my sites and I love it. You don't have to learn a single line of HTML, but it would have limited use with Cube Cart and Zen Cart. What you can do with WebBuilder is create individual pages for each item and include a Paypal Buy Now button.
As this answer could go on forever, contact me via my profile if any of the above sound interesting.
2007-09-13 01:27:01 · answer #2 · answered by John K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Technically you don't need a shopping cart, you can use third party carts and link your items to those.
The one that comes to mind is PayPal, there are others, search on google or similar, you will come up with something that suits.
Be careful that the cart you select allows you to trade in your local currency.
2007-09-13 20:18:49 · answer #3 · answered by JA12 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's 1and1.com which has a business plan for about $10(US) a month. (They also are UK based - 1and1.co.uk)
The plans are billed for in a 6 month billing cycle though. They give you 3 domains with that package, and the'd have all the tools you'd need.
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2007-09-13 01:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by erfahren 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Either one of these is pretty cheap and I think they were rated pretty good...
http://dommel.com/en/unix/index.php?cust=comp
http://hosting.viux.com/
And it's also important to make sure they have good support and not too much downtime.
2007-09-13 01:47:23 · answer #5 · answered by Nikki 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well, go for www.godaddy.com cheap as well as more web space.
i suggest dont always look for cheap hosting....go for reliable hosting...try www.networksolutions.com the best one
2007-09-13 04:19:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://www.leap-host.com
2007-09-13 01:39:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it is called www.cheapass.com
2007-09-13 00:58:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
http://geocities.yahoo.com/
2007-09-13 00:58:57 · answer #9 · answered by Don M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can try http://www.aplis.net/
2007-09-13 03:44:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋