eCommerce web designer?

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I'd like to sell some of the things I make online, but not through eBay.

Can anyone recommend anyone? Any idea of costs?

Most web hosting companies include site building tools as part of their package.
You could use these to build your own website and shop fairly easily.

See mywebsite.1and1.co.uk/?__reuse=1333564385356&__lf=Static#featurelist-start or www.fasthosts.co.uk/web-hosting/business-web-hosting/business-standard/ for examples.

Thanks for that. The first link you mention doesn't have eCommerce facility, or did I miss something? Can you recommend anyone else? I'm very grateful!

The eCommerce stuff is hidden away a bit in the last paragraph in the first link.
It states that you can add additional functions like 'eShop' to your site which will allow you to publish a 'catalogue' of products and enable online ordering.

The link below shows you more information about how the eShop works.
mywebsite.1and1.co.uk/popupProductsOrder?__lf=guided

I can't recommend anyone else I'm afraid but last time I built a website for someone I used the 1and1 hosting services and they have been very reliable.

Good luck!

If you want to doa simple 'shopping basket' you could sell items using PayPal.

You'd use the PayPal site to create a button for each item (having a product code, description and price) then have those buttons on one or more pages, and a "check out" or "purchase" button that would go to PayPal and show the items being bought and total cost.

The visitor to the website would not need to be an existing PayPal user (though I think they expect people to sign up after say 10 purchases). So it would be possible to take the payment without them already being a PP user, but with the security of only PP getting their card details for the transaction (not something you'd want to store or worry about anyway).

PayPal would take a little under 4% in fees (so add this onto your prices to cover yourself for those extra costs). You may be able to add extras like recorded delivery in the 'checkout' stage, but I've generally used PP for subscriptions (eg a client paying me for web hosting at X per month) and in my case nothing gets posted out, and they're ongoing month after month, not one-off sales, so a bit different. I have sometimes made an invoice web page with a "Pay Now" button on it, or sent an invoice (PP sends it, I supply the e-mail address and item details, cost).

There are lots of things on PP I have not yet tried but it is pretty flexible and low cost for DIY methods of taking payments.

I had a great web designer who designed whole site for me but gave me full admin rights so i can load all products myself and adjust pricing but he had a basic template. I have e commerce, paypal is option ESP to start off with but sage pay is prefered by most retailers as overall it's cheaper. The other thing about doing it completely yourself is that you could design yourself a terrific website but if no one can find you there's no point. Rankings are the key to successful businesses, u can either do this by using key words or pay per click or links. But a good web designer will do this for you initialling. Site optimisation is really key www.worldwidewebdesign.co.uk .