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Posted by Nathaniel Whitfield
Nathaniel Whitfield
1,406 Points

Creating an ecommerce website

I know I've been over this but I'm still very undecided. I'm wanting to make an ecommerce website, however the look of the website is something I want to make myself. How would I integrate the shop to the website? Don't say wordpress because I don't know PHP fully, I would ideally want to get a site up and running and then learn PHP, wordpress and as everything else as I go. What would you guys recommend I do?

Thanks

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Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

The problem and reason everyone would say wordpress is because somehow you need to connect the backend and the frontend. Maybe some shopping cart like magento cart would allow you to build your own front end?

I think you will have to find a prebuilt eccomerce system that allows you to build your front end on top of it. If you can't find one I honestly believe wordpress would be your best solution. This project might even need to wait a while until you learn more.

It is a challenging project and one that I have attempted myself. I ended up using Squirrel Cart: http://www.squirrelcart.com/

It was the single most challenging project I have ever done. I don't intend to discourage you you should definitly attempt it! But maybe learn more PHP first. Best of luck!