Hi.
I did a few photo's for a friend who owns her own clothes shop last year. I also built up a website for her (containing 6 or so pages linked to all her social media accounts, added brands, location maps, general info). It looks pretty decent for a non pro effort. This was using Wix so pretty straight forward really (no programming/coding required).
She's recently asked me if I could look into creating an online store for her shop, along the same lines as the website.
I've had a good look around and 'Shopfiy' stood out amongst them all. However, this requires a bit of knowledge of coding - she wanted something she could update herself (it would have to managed in house I guess - stock issues/new lines etc). I could possibly dip my brain into and give it a go, but I don't currently have the time to learn it...and I'm pretty certain she would more than struggle to update it herself (to update photo's (of stock) takes a bit of coding jiggery pokery).
I've contemplated taking time out to learn a bit of coding, perhaps a bit of night school (possibly as a career change consideration?)
I do the odd bit in root on my computer (for Vortexbox and XBMC and the odd website coding) but not enough to build a fully running web shop. I think the risks involved would require this to be managed professionally. Possibly why it costs in the region of 3-4k for an online shop site.
Her shop is doing well, so I wouldn't want her to p*ss potential customers off with an amateur shop site running snags and possibly even fraud from her customers accounts. Most of the decent web shop build sites seem to require a fair bit of coding knowledge....and she isn't particularly tech savvy,
Best advice? Ask to make a decision if it's worth (at the moment) paying out 3-4k for a pro shop site? Customers are asking if they can buy online. Not sure eBay is the direction she wants to go either (she works with a lot of branded clothing).
Cheers.
I did a few photo's for a friend who owns her own clothes shop last year. I also built up a website for her (containing 6 or so pages linked to all her social media accounts, added brands, location maps, general info). It looks pretty decent for a non pro effort. This was using Wix so pretty straight forward really (no programming/coding required).
She's recently asked me if I could look into creating an online store for her shop, along the same lines as the website.
I've had a good look around and 'Shopfiy' stood out amongst them all. However, this requires a bit of knowledge of coding - she wanted something she could update herself (it would have to managed in house I guess - stock issues/new lines etc). I could possibly dip my brain into and give it a go, but I don't currently have the time to learn it...and I'm pretty certain she would more than struggle to update it herself (to update photo's (of stock) takes a bit of coding jiggery pokery).
I've contemplated taking time out to learn a bit of coding, perhaps a bit of night school (possibly as a career change consideration?)
I do the odd bit in root on my computer (for Vortexbox and XBMC and the odd website coding) but not enough to build a fully running web shop. I think the risks involved would require this to be managed professionally. Possibly why it costs in the region of 3-4k for an online shop site.
Her shop is doing well, so I wouldn't want her to p*ss potential customers off with an amateur shop site running snags and possibly even fraud from her customers accounts. Most of the decent web shop build sites seem to require a fair bit of coding knowledge....and she isn't particularly tech savvy,
Best advice? Ask to make a decision if it's worth (at the moment) paying out 3-4k for a pro shop site? Customers are asking if they can buy online. Not sure eBay is the direction she wants to go either (she works with a lot of branded clothing).
Cheers.