My wife Diana is a webmaster and recently started using the open source
Zen Cart for a bookstore:
http://www.zen-cart.com/modules/frontpage/She is not a programmer, but found the Zen Cart easy to administer and
with very good support. Your questions are answered quickly.
You might want to inquire at Lunar Pages about hosting your ordering.
Lunar Pages provides Zen Cart. Diana works for a non-profit
organization with a small budget. The hosting cost can be as little as
$8.00 per month.
http://www.lunarpages.com/As for Ruby on Rails, it's a very hot database to web development
framework, based on the Ruby language. But you do have to be a programmer.
Paul, email me if you have more questions. Diana is happy to help.
Here is her bookstore on Zen Cart:
http://coreknowledge.org/bookstore/-Richard Brewster
Paul Schreiber wrote:
>My ordering page stinks and I want to change it. It's very difficult
>to add stuff and the shipping calculator is off.
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>Please visit these demo sites (no SW to load) and let me know what you think.
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>One is free, the other like $60.
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>http://phpmycart.com/demo_store/
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>and try
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>http://demo.oscommerce.com/
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>of if you have another suggestions (these are PHP/MySQL pages. There is
>also this 'Ruby on Rails' thing but that phrase makes my head explode).
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>Paul S.
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