Business Thoughts - website setup. Need some advice.
Discussion
I am planning to put my jewellery and arts business on the web fairly soon and I am really struggling with the best way to do it.
All my products are bespoke and the best way to show them is picture rich - each piece will probably have 4-5 photographs, all reasonably high level of detail and at any one time I may well have upto 25 different 'collections' on the go..
Now, the thing is I want to be able to maintain this myself. Now, my thoughts involve a two sided approach. Let me explain..
My own site that shows the artistic side of the collections. Each product is listed and then shown in some detail - (this is where the 4/5 pictures come in). When someone wants to purchase a piece, this is where my logic gets cloudy.. does it make sense to link this to some third part standard s/w like EROL or the like to handle the mechanics of the sale or does it make sense to do the whole thing from inside standard software and not differentiate between the 'artistic' and the 'purchasing' side. If I do go down the bespoke route it will be bog standard CS2 functionality.
Any thoughts and suggestions on this would be greatfully recieved. I really don't know the best way to procede with this.
(My priority is that it is simple for me to setup and maintain, has reasonable flexibility and I MUST be able to configure the front end to my business needs - I have very high standards WRT GUI functionality and presentation)
All my products are bespoke and the best way to show them is picture rich - each piece will probably have 4-5 photographs, all reasonably high level of detail and at any one time I may well have upto 25 different 'collections' on the go..
Now, the thing is I want to be able to maintain this myself. Now, my thoughts involve a two sided approach. Let me explain..
My own site that shows the artistic side of the collections. Each product is listed and then shown in some detail - (this is where the 4/5 pictures come in). When someone wants to purchase a piece, this is where my logic gets cloudy.. does it make sense to link this to some third part standard s/w like EROL or the like to handle the mechanics of the sale or does it make sense to do the whole thing from inside standard software and not differentiate between the 'artistic' and the 'purchasing' side. If I do go down the bespoke route it will be bog standard CS2 functionality.
Any thoughts and suggestions on this would be greatfully recieved. I really don't know the best way to procede with this.
(My priority is that it is simple for me to setup and maintain, has reasonable flexibility and I MUST be able to configure the front end to my business needs - I have very high standards WRT GUI functionality and presentation)
Edited by drivin_me_nuts on Friday 28th September 11:53
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