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Dexter:
Hi all,

Web design is an area I have ZERO experience in. My dad wants me to put together a site for him that will allow him to sell his products. I need info on the following:

Best site with free website templates
What software would you recommend for novices
A brief rundown of the process involved in building, modifying and running it.

Thanks in advance

Dexter

Games001:
I suggest using MS FrontPage.  Any version after 2000 is fine and VERY simple to use.

You can basically layout a page as you would in Publisher or better yet, when setting up your Control Panel then just hit one button to have all the images, text, links and layout saved for easy upload to your hosting site.

Yahoo has low cost Web Hosting (average about $11-$12 a month for reasomable loading speed, monthly usage, admin pages, email, etc).

As to layout, I have always been told to just look around the web, find something you like as a page, then copy the 'source' code and rework it in your HTML editor (FrontPage?).  It's not considered ok to just repost someone else's work, but you can draw insight from others without pause.

boykster:
how many products are you talking about?  If it's more than just a few, consider a package like OSCommerce.  Most hosts will support it.  As for hosting, I like 1and1 and you can get setup really inexpensively.  I just setup a non-dedicated website with ftp, 120gigs of storage, a ton of traffic and 2 domain name registrations for $22.00 and that's for 6 months of hosting....

AtomSmasher:
I used to use www.doteasy.com to host my website because it's basically free, the only cost is the $10 or so a year to renew your domain name.  It only has 100mb of storage and up to 10 email accounts, but there are no banner ads on your website like most free hosting places have.  For my business website I use 1&1 which costs a few dollars a month, but includes a free website builder which makes it very easy to build a website.

RayB:
Selling goods online is nothing to treat too lightly. There's security considerations. OSCommerce, as cool and easy as it is to set up, can have prices spoofed pretty damn easily.

Front Page?? No. Stay away.

Basically you'll want to look into a pre-made package and then customize it. Some web hosting packages come with E-Commerce options built in.

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