My mom owns a used bookstore in New Jersey and does a lot of online selling on abebooks and through an Amazon account. Now, she'd like to be able to sell through her own site, but has no clue how to do it.
Anyone here with tips?
Basically, as a bookstore, she'd like to have her site be able to show images of the books, and have her users be able to have a shopping cart, accounts, check on shipping, etc.
I've done just a hint of reading on the subject ("hint"= 30 minutes online just now ), and I've come across a few programs (oscommerce, zencart, and others) that seem to be able to do what she'd require, but I'm still left with a ton of questions. Mainly---do you need someone like Amazon or Yahoo to host for you, or can you do it yourself if you get your own server?
Any help would be majorly appreciated!
(p.s.--mods, I stuck this in LS instead of VDT figuring that online business owners aren't necessarily "techies" and frequenters of VDT. still, I could see this in VDT, so if you feel it fits there better, I'm cool with that. [/awkward rambling] )
Anyone here with tips?
Basically, as a bookstore, she'd like to have her site be able to show images of the books, and have her users be able to have a shopping cart, accounts, check on shipping, etc.
I've done just a hint of reading on the subject ("hint"= 30 minutes online just now ), and I've come across a few programs (oscommerce, zencart, and others) that seem to be able to do what she'd require, but I'm still left with a ton of questions. Mainly---do you need someone like Amazon or Yahoo to host for you, or can you do it yourself if you get your own server?
Any help would be majorly appreciated!
(p.s.--mods, I stuck this in LS instead of VDT figuring that online business owners aren't necessarily "techies" and frequenters of VDT. still, I could see this in VDT, so if you feel it fits there better, I'm cool with that. [/awkward rambling] )