I want to set up a website that will consist of a few pages of items for sale.

These items will need to be deleted and new items added as and when the stock changes - similar to a car forecourt set up.

I will need a page for different catagories of product, ie. 4x4, commercial, small family car etc.

I dont want to be able to sell through this site just, its just for people to see what stock i have in at present and a bit of a description about the item and a price.

Can anyone recommmend what software is available (most locost and user friendly the better) and where from?

In addition to this i am looking for somwhere to host it and i need to register a domain name too - any suggestions?


Many thanks

[Edited on 12/7/07 by locoboy]

try cubecart.com it's an online shop where you can show current stock etc. You should be able to disable the buy online feature so will just show your stock, photo's and text.

You actually don't need any software for that, MSOffice or OpenOffice will create html pages for you or you could use Mozilla Composer which is now part of Mozilla SeaMonkey http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/.

Apart from that you need to understand a tiny bit about how URLs are referenced in HTML -- about five minutes reading.

Ive used easily 1and1 and names co for domain registration each has advantages/disadvantages easily being the most expensive but most feature packed.

You can use word to create the html files but will then need ftp software to upload to your tbc host

most domain reg companies will sell you webspace for hosting at the same time as the domain

VirtueMart which is an open source Joomla Module or Zencart which is a stand alone shopping cart both would do the job, If you only want to show the products off and want a nice looking site easily then Virtue cart with a nice Joomla template would be ideal.

You would need a website with Apache, MYSQL and PHP for either but they are both easily updated.

I would recommend Register1 for hosting

[Edited on 12/7/2007 by Keith Weiland]

For FTP upload to the server Filezilla is great and genuinely 100% free

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

Also if you use Firefox you can install Fireftp as an add-on it works just dandy also.