website design advise please

[fil_b]

Hi All

I need some advise in making a website. My dad want to sell stuff he has via a website.

He has asked me to make it, that not the issue.

Issue I got I need some sort of way of making it "Easy" for him to modify it, upload, change stuff etc.
He not very computer literate so I need it to be simple.

any ideas where to go, plugins for something etc......

Thanks

Phil

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Joomla or Wordpress mate

 

[fil_b]

was thinking of a joomla site

didn't know what plugs are available

been a while since I looked

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

was thinking of a joomla site

didn't know what plugs are available

been a while since I looked

I prefer Joomla to WordPress. Seems to be more in depth.

What sort of plugins do you want? One of the best you can get it TinyMCE

 

[fil_b]

just a selling site - just want it simples for my dad

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

just a selling site - just want it simples for my dad

How many items are you planning on selling? If it's over 20 I would look at using PrestaShop over Joomla. If not you can use a plugin from here, just look for one that will suite your needs, and has good reviews. http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/e-commerce

 

[fil_b]

I check PrestaShop

not sure how many yet I find out

Thanks

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

No worries, just keep this thread updated or drop me a PM

 

[LouisSpencer]

I have used wordpress and woo commerce, thats good for uploading items and selling, you can also with the right plugins (woo lister) list on ebay from it

 

[mgd]

magento or bigcommerce

 

[Cup_Phil]

Joomla and Wordpress are about the worst things you could start with - both are CMS's and not designed for selling

Magento would be your best bet if you're not a coder and want to just put plugins together
If he's only selling a few items though (under 100) I'd use http://www.shopify.com/

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Joomla and Wordpress are about the worst things you could start with - both are CMS's and not designed for selling

Magento would be your best bet if you're not a coder and want to just put plugins together
If he's only selling a few items though (under 100) I'd use http://www.shopify.com/

Hence why I said if he's selling over 20 items to use Prestashop.

 

[matt91]

opencart is a decent ecommerce.

 

[Slammed172]

Wordpress and WooCommerce or if you want to make light work of it, set-up Shopify.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Drupal is pretty good as far as free solutions go, well supported for eCommerce too.

Its written in PHP too which makes it very easy to write your own applications and integrate them.

 

[Cup_Phil]

Drupal is pretty good as far as free solutions go, well supported for eCommerce too.

Its written in PHP too which makes it very easy to write your own applications and integrate them.

If you're a PHP developer lol

 

[Chip-mk1]

If you're a PHP developer lol

Well, if you are (or know one who can help you) a developer at all really, as PHP is a very quick one to pick up IME so its not like you really need prior experience of it, just allow a little more dev time for your first application obviously to allow for a bit of learning on the job.