Hello folks.
My father and I have a small business, a toy store and a various holiday gadgets store (xmas decoration, easter, valentine, summer stuff..)
So I was thinking of making something like pcandparts (email order and delivery to home)
My father first started the business in 1994 so basically we’re not starting from “zero”
Anyway, I have a few question for the community (I know that some of the question can be answered by google though)
First of all, do you think is it worth the time creating the website?
Financially it won’t cost anything since I’ll write it and host in on my vps so.. I just mean the time to make it ready, coding and photographing the products…
I have no idea about Lebanese online shopping in general and how many people are into so I am not sure yet..
Secondly (some technical stuff If I've decided to start)
1- Can I –is it a good thing- to make a mysql db and use php to print product information to html? I’ll need product Item#(this should be the db PK I guess, description, price, brands name(lego, Barbie, bburago, mattel bla bla bla).. I had this idea because I’ve already
written a data entry/statistical software in C# so I could add a way to update products in a friendly way.
2- Do you have any suggestion about which colors I should use/ which theme (I suck at designing)
I was thinking to make something like this:
http://charbelharb.org/~c/web/ <= = That’s a very small and basic website I’ve made for a university project a few years ago but I don’t think a kinda b/w theme is good for a toy store website?
3- Any web-dev has used google web designer? If yes is it good for a newbie in webdev? (If you know any alternative let me know –please not dreamweaver-, I’ve installed it one time and gave me headache, end up writing manually in vi and nano)
4- Do you know any good company that offers delivery service at an affordable price? Pcandparts price are reasonable, so something like it. (I am not sure if they have their own shipping department but I don’t think so)
Well that's it, if you have any suggestion I’ll be thankful.