Your own website

[KristianJessie]

Hello,

I'm thinking to have a website with my own domain name for displaying items, blog, photo etc. What server or platform are you using ? weebly or others? better have checkout function.

Thanks a lot !

[steedcraft]

Hi Sue, Im just doing the same thing my website has been rubbish for years, it seams the standard requirement now to get anyone to "engage" with you is to have a site with video, photos, and a means of collecting their email so you can send out mailshots to those who took the time to apply - gosh it all seams like tedious nonsense away from the bench to me hence me not having bothered for so long. I am currently building a site with wix, its not finished yet but so far it has been very user friendly, and is free to get going. You can pay for extra features - like a domain name and email without the @wix preface, and a wix store, but etsy and facebook buttons are free.
cheers
Quin

[Former_Member]

I have several web sites through iPage.com. I hand-code my web sites. iPage has some site-building tools, but I've never used them. They are cheap, and you can host multiple web sites on one account.

I haven't set up shopping cart / checkout yet; reading up on it, it seems a bit complex. But they do have several shopping cart's available - you have to have a merchant account for credit card processing to connect it up to. For now, I just link it to my Etsy store for selling.

[KristianJessie]

Thanks Steed and Matthew!

[Former_Member]

Hi Sue,
I set ours up through Yola, which has a free version so you can test drive some features before deciding to go for it. Good value for money and excellent customer service, the odd time I've had a problem they've gone in and sorted it for me. I decided not to use their inbuilt cart as I wanted boutique style individual pages and just have Paypal buttons instead.

[KristianJessie]

Thank you Karen adn Rich.

I gonna check it out !