Blogging has made one point very clear to me–valid links are vital, especially if you’re trying to sell. The changing links of items renewed made me consider opening my own shopping cart using Oscommerce software. I’ve all but given up on eBay. While other sites I’m posting to are doing fine, I wanted to have more control over links, items, and presentation. Hence, my decision to open up my own store.
I’ve done a couple things to move in that direction. I’ve given up GoDaddy.com as my hosting provider. The upload speed was getting slower and frankly, just by looking around I found out that there are a lot more providers out there providing more bells and whistles–and excellent support. After a great deal of research, I moved to HostGator. You have to be impressed by a provider that appears in so many top 10 lists. It has also been around since 2001, a long-time player in a competitive market.
The support has been fantastic. Quick. To the point answers. Intelligent responses. I’m very pleased. My website loads so much quicker too. It was through switching to HostGator that I set up Oscommerce. Set up was easy through HG. Soon, I realized though that I needed help with my set up. Don’t bother with free templates. I browsed through so many poor examples I can safely recommend to buy a template. I settled on one from the Oscommerce Store. I chose this site, thinking its focus to the shopping cart would give me better support.
This is where I’m at now. Oscommerce is installed on my website, but not yet live. I’ve installed my template. I’m now going about setting up my store. Look for later posts describing my experience and how it worked for me.
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