First venture into e-commerce

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Philip Herlihy

I've been asked to build my first e-commerce site, selling small
consumables online. I'm a programmer of 20 years experience, including
databases, have an outline familiarity with ASP, but this is new to me. I'd
be glad to know how the experts here would approach it!
 
Do a search for ASP based e-commerce applications.

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Well I'd recommend going to www.candypress.com and checking out their store. It's ASP based and
only costs like $40. It's totallycustomizable (as many have done) and works really well.

I'm using it now and it was so incredibly easy to setup and configure it was amazing.
 
we should start a fanclub ;-)

Mr B said:
Well I'd recommend going to www.candypress.com and checking out their store. It's ASP based and
only costs like $40. It's totallycustomizable (as many have done) and works really well.

I'm using it now and it was so incredibly easy to setup and configure it was amazing.
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Heh, didn't read through all the other replies but just saw yours. I love the cart. What it
doesn't do that I want, I can modify it easily enough (and I don't know ASP at all). But most of it
is great right out of the box.

we should start a fanclub ;-)
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there is a guy that makes some add-ins ( http://www.jlsmedia.com/ ), I don't
like how he does it on the presentation side but it's easy enough to massage
his code. I don't know much .asp either ;-)

Mr B said:
Heh, didn't read through all the other replies but just saw yours. I love the cart. What it
doesn't do that I want, I can modify it easily enough (and I don't know ASP at all). But most of it
is great right out of the box.
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Very grateful for these replies - I'll be following up all the products
recommended.

One thing that I'd like a steer on - what level of functionality is a
reasonable minimum to start with? All my inclinations are to deliver,
quickly, the minimum worthwhile system and then go from there. Obviously
the sky's the limit, with integrated stock re-order, etc, but - regardless
of technology - what do folk think would be a baseline system?
 
I'd start with the candypress system. if you need to follow the link I gave
for "candy press gold", and if you need more than that you're "really big".
most of the functionality inherent to the base candypress cart isn't really
necessary for most.

HTH
 
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