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"How much do you charge?"

This is really for web designers only but if you're not, dont worry, just make it up! :)

All I want to know is........

1)How much would you charge for a 10 page website?

2)Whats the most money you've made from building a website for a company or yourself?

3)What is your view on shopping carts? (Thats the website version!)

4)Who designed the Special Reserve website?

I wouldn't like to say how much but let's just say i wouldn't do it out of the goodness of my heart. Try the E-commerce feature on http://www.devshed.com . That shoud tell you everything you need to know.

The prolem is, you need a PGSQL database as MySQL just isn't secure enough. You also need a SSL server which can be pricey. Writing your own shopping cart is definitely the best idea as a lot of these pre-written ones are very inflexible.

Turbo? Free? NAH!

How ya doin anyway turbo? not spoke to you for a while!

I would of thought that even if you did make your own shopping cart site not many people would use it because it isn't secure. I'd only ever use a secure site and secure servers cost muchos dineros mis amigos!!!

Turbonutter wrote:
However, if your are skilled enough (*cough* me *cough*) you can make a perfectly good one out of PHP and a PostgresSQL database.

How much would you charge?

Or could you give me some *FREE* advice?

Shopping carts are freely available anywhere and some are decent. However, if your are skilled enough (*cough* me *cough*) you can make a perfectly good one out of PHP and a PostgresSQL database. MySQL isn't really good enough, as it doesn't support transactions.

OK, Thanks for the help...

I think I will have to research into it more.....

I'll probably end up paying for it in the end...to save the hassle, and responsibilty if it all goes wrong

Some people are resistant to make them because if they get something wrong during the coding, it could potentially reveal customer credit card details and other information, which they don't want to be associated with.

There are plenty of solutions available to buy out of the box, but if you definately want to make one yourself, Start with learning some MySQL and PHP from a general help site (webmonkey.com or suchlike), or find a more specialised one on those subjects - I haven't looked in to it myself.

Ive noticed people have said they havent made websites with shopping carts, but would like to.

Why are shopping carts so hard to do?

Do they cost any money to make?

And do you have any other information you can tell me on them?

Website addresses I can go to would also be appreciated

Thanks

1)depends on whether I like the customer or not, and how much work has to go into it.

2) no comment, there are Taxmen out there you know.

3) never designed one with a cart although that is something I am looking into.

http://www.imagics.f2s.com/ website/prices.php

Full price list available there but they are soon to go up.

1) We don't set a fixed price for a site and never copy templates and graphics from our other ones, so it depends on exactly what the client wants in the way of multimedia, graphics, games etc.

2) Heh, couldn't say...not enough.

3) What was question 3? Hang on..Oh, shopping carts. I've not yet created a site with one myself, but it's something I'd like to look in to, as I think that (as long as the data is encrypted) they're the best way of ordering off the net that we've currently got.