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Discussion in 'Web Development' started by joel, Jul 6, 2005.

  1. joel

    joel Member

    i am trying to set up a business on the internet selling dvds i ahve always sold dvds to my friends and other people now i am going to start on the web but i dotn have much money to start up a website on ym web site i would like one of those shopping cart things and someother things i went and asked how much some companys would make my whole website for all of them said 1,000 dollars but i dont have that kind of money but i think it is great that FWT is making a tempalte for me and that is good but i need someone to make the rest of my site but no one will do it for free so it seems that somthing very simple has turned into somthing very hard
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  2. Mimoun

    Mimoun Administrator Staff Member Director Verified Member

    You can use an open source shopping cart script like osCommerce it's free.
     
    Mimoun, Jul 6, 2005
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  3. joel

    joel Member

    ok thanks what does open sourse mean hey and everyone see what i mean is i need help
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  4. joel

    joel Member

    on that site what do i download?
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  5. Mimoun

    Mimoun Administrator Staff Member Director Verified Member

    [size=-1]Open source software is software that is released with source code. People are allowed to make dirivative works from open source software as long as it is released under the same open source agreement.
    Most of the time open source is free.
    [/size]You can download it here
     
    Mimoun, Jul 6, 2005
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  6. joel

    joel Member

    it says this which one?

    osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2
    Windows Package (zip; md5sum: 7949541d1e3bfd09848557c4d456aea5)

    » Download at SunSite (Europe)
    » Download at SourceForge (America)

    Linux/Unix Package (tar/gz; md5sum: 2dee2756a27ab86561645a4141499795)

    » Download at SunSite (Europe)
    » Download at SourceForge (America)

    Both Windows and Linux/Unix packages contain the same files, they are only packaged with different compression solutions.
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  7. Mimoun

    Mimoun Administrator Staff Member Director Verified Member

    Which operation system does your host use Windows of Linux? Ask your host if you don't know.
     
    Mimoun, Jul 6, 2005
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  8. joel

    joel Member

    they use windows
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  9. Mimoun

    Mimoun Administrator Staff Member Director Verified Member

    Then you have to download the windows one.
     
    Mimoun, Jul 6, 2005
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  10. joel

    joel Member

    Europe or america?
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  11. Mimoun

    Mimoun Administrator Staff Member Director Verified Member

    Download the one where you live or the one that is nearby.
     
    Mimoun, Jul 6, 2005
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  12. joel

    joel Member

    ok what next?
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  13. Mimoun

    Mimoun Administrator Staff Member Director Verified Member

    Go to the online documentation and start reading how it all works and how to install osCommerce.
    It will take some time before you know how it all works, but ones you do you will have your own online shop.
     
    Mimoun, Jul 6, 2005
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  14. joel

    joel Member

    and u know how ur making that template for me could i put the online shop on ur template that u made?
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  15. Mimoun

    Mimoun Administrator Staff Member Director Verified Member

    We currently don't make osCommerce website templates, but I will see if we can do this in the future.
     
    Mimoun, Jul 6, 2005
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  16. joel

    joel Member

    ok so i read that thing no the site i did not understand anything could u just tell me how to install it?
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  17. Mimoun

    Mimoun Administrator Staff Member Director Verified Member

    Did you read it all? That's very fast.
    I have never used oscommerce I make my own scripts, so I can't tell you.
    There is an oscommerce forum you can ask questions there they have more knowledge about it.
     
    Mimoun, Jul 6, 2005
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  18. joel

    joel Member

    I didn't read it all cuase i didn't understand it i dont no how to use it is just sitting there what i do ow well they should of explained it better
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  19. joel

    joel Member

    yes i ahve found someone that will help me get a shop on my site well thanks anyway hey have u started on my DVD template? im just asking i dotn care if u havent?
     
    joel, Jul 6, 2005
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  20. Mimoun

    Mimoun Administrator Staff Member Director Verified Member

    No I have not started yet.
     
    Mimoun, Jul 6, 2005
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