Help with website idea

DotFifty89 · 22 Jan 2015 at 08:32

Hi I am looking to make a website to sell my plaques and signs online.

I make handmade shabby chic plaques, and I sell them on an auction site.

I would like to try and make a website to try and sell them on.

My idea of the website is to have many of the plaques ready made so people know what they look like, and then a make your own page.

I would have different shape and sizes of blank plaques, so they can write in a box and it would appear on the blank plaque, they would also be able to select the colour of the plaque, the colour of font, and style and size of font.

So customers can see exactly how the plaque will look like before buying.

Is this possible? I have no experience with making websites, only the drag and drop ones.

I was thinking of creating the website on a drag and drop website, and then inserting the right HTML for the make your own page.

Thanks for any feedback.

DotFifty89 · 22 Jan 2015 at 09:19

I do know about those, but I would prefer my own website. To get someone to do it, how much roughly will this cost?

Is it hard to create what i'm trying to do here?

Thanks.

DotFifty89 · 23 Jan 2015 at 04:22

Is there anyone here that knows how to do it? I am able to do the actual shop part, it is just the make your own part, that I have no idea how to do.

So I would like a few drop down boxes to select which shape plaque they want and what size, the colour of the plaque, the style and size of font, and colour.

So everytime you select an option from the dropdown box the plaque updates instantly. Also, when writing I would like the writing to appear while your writing.

If anyone has any info on how to do this, I would be grateful if you could share your knowledge.

Or something I could enter into google that could help me out. Currently , everything that I'm typing in isn't what I'm looking for.

@joemc I did a search on website registration plate, but that comes up with car number plates. Apologies if I've completely got the wrong end of the stick here

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DotFifty89 · 23 Jan 2015 at 07:51

Resistance said:
It can cost up to £2000 for a pro website to be made depends what you want. It would be cheaper to put up forums suit like vbulletin it comes with a cms that is like a website or you could add wordpress. I run my own site and can install it for you if you wish

Hi, thanks for the reply. I have had a look at Vbulletin, but I don't understand how I would be able to sell on their.

I like the idea of an actual website better.

DotFifty89 · 23 Jan 2015 at 08:04

If you visit vista print I would like it exactly like that, but with my plaques

DotFifty89 · 23 Jan 2015 at 09:18

touch said:
How many combinations of plaque shapes and colours do you have?
Allowing users to add text and select a font and text colour would be quite easy. Changing the colours of a background image would be more difficult. It would be easiest to actually make images (or photos) of each possible plaque shape/colour and load a different background image depending on user selection.

I have nearly 200 different styles, 10 different colours.

That is what I was thinking of doing, taking a picture of every possible style. So when for example: Style 10 plaque is selected, it comes up. Then colour red, then the plaque turns red. Then user writes in "test" it shows on the plaque.

DotFifty89 · 23 Jan 2015 at 09:45

Touch could I do the whole site on a drag and drop website? As I have no experience in this. And then add a page for the customise part using jquery? It does let me input html.