: Which shopping cart / ecommerce platform to choose? Possible Duplicate: Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I need to build an ecommerce website within a tight budget and schedule.

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: I don't know of any such software. Your best bet would be either recreate the same template as best you can with Artisteer, or use the template and make modifcations with the help of

: Whatever site or resource you turn to, the two key terms you'll want to learn more about are body type and display type. In your case, the description is likely an example of body type

: You don't need any rewrite rules. Just add a VirtualHost section, like <VirtualHost IPAddress> ServerName sub.mydomain.com DocumentRoot /path/to/public_html/sub </VirtualHost>

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@Murray155

For shopping carts, I will recommend you to have a look at Magento Commerce, OsCommerce, ZenCart and Prestashop. If you are looking for something powerful, you should definitely be looking at Magento.

Clearly the Magento eCommerce with the strongest backend and securely.

@Kristi941

Try out Shopify.

@Smith883

Magento may well be the most robust PHP shop solution, but it is big, resource hungry and not easy to implement or customize as others noted. Prestashop may not be as matured and it lacks a lot of the more advanced features, BUT it is impressively easy to learn both to the developer/webmaster and to the owner. I honestly think it will become the most popular solution in just a couple of years.

@Heady270

I have found Magento, difficult to learn, but worth the effort.

A great resource in understanding how magneto code works: Designers Guide

Awesome video tutorial series: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish

@YK1175434

Evaluate the different solutions by establishing some test products. Then read the documentation (and test a sample installation if possible) to see how they are handled.

For example, I needed some tricky handling of text product attributes and variable pricing. Three years ago ZenCart was the only solution that could do what I needed.

@Angie530

I can say from personal experience that Prestashop is pretty good. They used to have a problem with the upgrades being hard (1.1 -> 1.2 was so hard many people didn't do it), but since 1.3 this has not been much of an issue. They also issue regular security updates, and have an active forum to help with problems.

My wife and her business partner are both non-technical people, and they find Prestashop easy to use, so depending on your customer that may be important as well.

@Pierce454

If you have never done it before and have tight schedule and budget then i'd say you are doomed anyway and have to choose whatever has the shortest learning curve for you.

Best choice out of these would be Magento but it has the longest learning curve and you'd be well comfortable with this platform after 6 months hands on working with it. I would not bother to learn the others as they are waste of time from business owners perspective. Specially viewed from support and aging technology side.

Referring to the facts have never done it before and tight schedule and budget i would suggest to rent the storefront instead (shopify, yahoo and so on, google will help you find them). That would cut off costs for development , shorten the learning curve and you can start selling right away and you can boost your business with reasonably priced services. If you grow and have larger budget then you should think of investing and implementing your own site.

@RJPawlick198

From personal experience I can recommend you Interspire Shopping Cart it is not free but in my opinion quite powerful and easy to operate. They provide hosted version and server licensing.