New to e-commerce advice wanted!

Hi,

I am a student web developer and I have been approached by a client and requested to build an e-commerce website to take their business from an e-bay only shop to a fully functional e-commerce website.

As i have never built an e-commerce site before I am reluctant to take this project on despite the great experience it could give me.

I recognise the fact that I will need to expand my skill into this area for future projects so what I am asking is how to go about building an e-commerce site? Should I be looking to write everything myself or are there good frameworks you can add in that have the shopping cart, billing and payment feature built in?

Any help or information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Phil Reeve

 

check out cartweaver.com. its a pre-packaged e-commerce solution you can build right into your website. My coding skills, like you, aren't brilliant. This is really really easy to use, can be used in conjunction with dreamweaver. Best of all its unlimited licence so you can use it for all your e-commerce websites. And the customer support is top notch. Highly recommended and well worth the investment.



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thx, JMCDesigner - u've set an "old boy's" mind @ ease!

and 2 u to xploremedia - i thought i was the only one who felt this way!