BitNotes Website Design

Website with Shopping Cart

Original version of albums website.


Classroom version of albums website.

Background

A few years back, my father was cleaning out the garage and selling his (vinyl) albums on eBay. We had a thought to take the balance of the collection online. This website represents a basic website with shopping cart. It has a search engine for all of the albums entered into the database and was to use PayPal® as a backend for payment processing.

Around the same time I taught a class in web design and since I had already done all the data entry for the website, I took advantage of that and showed my students how to create a website to sell albums.

The upper picture is from the first website and the lower picture is from the class. The code for the original (upper) website appears to be lost for now but could be replicated if you realy want that "Retro" look. For now, both images will take you to the current demo website.

Features

• Full text search on as many database fields as you want
• Customer accounts allow for basic demographics and makes customer return visits easier
• Inventory control removes items from stock when order is confirmed
• Lost Password recovery for customers
• Email Invoices for customers and Orders for your business
• Data entry form for your products. Added items show up immediately.
• Hosting package includes space for product images.
• You can click on the thumbnail of the webpage to see it full size.

Contract Details

• I can create a website for you using these or other website as a template. Once we negotiate the details of the products you want to sell and your business model, we can either use PayPal® as with this site or we can setup a regular merchant account where your customers won't see the PayPal® branding. PayPal® is cheaper, but may not present the best image depending on what you are selling or if you have a large number of items to sell.
  

Pricing

Considering the complexity of this type of website, pricing will have to be done on a case by case basis, but rest assured my rates are quite reasonable.