E-Commerce T-Shirt Website

[Dharok]

Hey guys, as requested by my father I'm soon going to have to build his website for selling T-Shirts. Now, I don't really know where to start here but first off is it worth using a pre-written script such as OsCommerce or ZenCart to begin with or, write it from scratch. My PHP skills are very limited but editting scripts through the use of tutorials I'm ok with.

So, which of these scripts is the easiest and best to work with, as obviously a good template/layout will be needed to attract the customer and make it look pleasing to the eye.

Next - Administration, as my father is not very computer literate he will require an administration panel that is easy to work with also, for example adding products, uploading photographs, editting prices etc.

Thanks in advance,

Dharok.

 

[Ross1234]

use a premade e-commerce system. Its something that has to be quite secure.

 

[tsinc80697]

If you have the time and the willingness to learn then creating one yourself would be good. I made one last year for a large online company from scratch. I looked at using prebuilt ones but by the time I removed half the things and added what they wanted it would have taken longer.

I didn't know PHP that well when I started but I learned a lot and it was definitely worth learning! The website was made to exactly what they wanted, all secure as it used a protx payment system, you could use paypal.