Minimum Knowledge for Homerorown Ecommerce Site

Question

I am a relative newbie to the professional development and design of websites. One of my clients asked me to create an e-commerce site to sell my luxury wallets. I have pretty solid experience working with php and MySQL, but they are not used professionally. I have not yet considered sessions or something similar to a shopping cart, and I fear that my lack of experience will lead to security problems or, even worse, to a certain part and the realization that I am above my head and cannot complete the work .

EDIT: Well, you guys convinced me not to build your own. More tips / suggestions?

Shop: going to sell 2-300 items, with verification and control of stocks. The client needs an easy-to-use backend, with the ability to place one item in several categories. Also, I have to make sure that there are different color variations of each element and several images.

By the way, I looked into other options (CMS), but the research process upsets me. For many of them, there seems to be a pretty steep learning curve. I spent the last day or so studying Liquid (for Shopify), and also played with PrestaShop and Magneto. I can say that I prefer to develop my own solutions for the disappointment that I need to learn someone in the elses system, but I will listen if people advise me to continue this route.

EDIT: I should have mentioned that the Client has already developed the interface that they want (for the client), so if I use the CMS parameter, I need to be sure that I can customize the theme accordingly

Well, not to write a novel, I'm going to leave it there. If you have any questions, I will often check them and try to contact them. I appreciate any help / advice that can offer you on this issue.

Answer 1

I'm glad you tagged your Shopify message, this is the best solution for your circumstances. I highly recommend that you set it up in Shopify, buy a stock template that best suits your needs and will work.

This is one of those long-standing dilemmas where you learn about the best / worst ways, etc. etc. When it comes to this, go to the online store, there are beautiful templates to choose from. When there is some cash flow from the store, you can absolutely guarantee that the customer will return for additional work from you.

By choosing Shofipy and a template, you have turned the bulk of your work into a non-problem. Then you can focus on downloading all of these products, which items should be presented, customization checks, SEO, traffic flow, etc. When you start working in the world of e-commerce, you will be shocked at how many penumbral settings you have.

Start selling first.

Adapt, create or select a new template (even a new e-commerce solution!) When there is a business, traffic flow, orders going through, lessons learned from the sale, and the reason for this.

If you take a look at Amazon.com again, you’ll see that there isn’t much in the template, that’s all that’s behind it and its traffic flow. Shopify allows you to extend, APIs, webhooks, templates, etc. You will never get stuck with Shopify.

Think about your client, they need a return on investment (return on investment). The fastest way to ROI is selling goods. Go to step two when the first step is complete.

Answer 2

I’m sure that you will later regret reinventing the wheel - save yourself from many problems, starting with some popular frameworks.

Personally, I recommend Magento, he is very professional. I love how easy it is to set up a hot website for a vacation or product line.

Answer 3

Using oscommerce, Magento, and Prestashop, I can say that Prestashop is by far the best choice in terms of easy installation and startup. They also have a fairly active forum where you can get help. The clients I used are not technical, and they were able to learn how to use it without much stress. Magento is much harder to set up and run, although it is more efficient for large sites with many aspects. Oscommerce is too unsafe. Prestashop offers the best compromise between complexity and power for a new store and is an active software project with frequent updates to fix new security issues, etc. (Something like oscommerce doesn't work at all).

In addition, both Magento and Prestashop offer you the opportunity to host software on them, which makes it even easier (of course, in this case you have to pay something).