Expert: Christine Milot - 10/15/2009

Question
QUESTION: Hi Christine,

My wife and I have developed a website to market our art products and are at a stand still because we are trying to add shopping cart features and don't know how to.  We are currently working with Justhost.com and have most of the site going.  We believe shopping cart features can be added through Fantastico or OsCommerce (OsCommerce doesn't appear on the Justhost website anymore)  Are you able to give us more information on how to go about adding shopping cart features? (as well as shipping and handling, etc.)?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Our site is sidecorativearts.com If you have the time, would you be willing to check out what we have so far and offer any suggestions?  Thank you for your time, Steve and Irene

ANSWER: Hi Steve and Irene,

Why not consider using PayPal's shopping cart. It is simple to implement, and given the size of your site it is the perfect solution. The customer support is pretty good too. You just have to add some code into each of the pages where the items exist. It is a matter of copy and pasting it from PayPal's tools, and modifying it slightly to match your needs. PayPal will allow clients to pay with credit cards as well.

I hope this helps you out.

Christine

Milot Marketing and Design

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QUESTION: Thank you for your answer, in regards to using Paypal to create buttons- this is working...but I do have another question for you, if you don't mind answering.  I am using a website builder on justhost.com to create our site and I have a background using Dreamweaver, so I am familiar with site construction.  I am having troubles lining my pictures and text up.  I created tables and placed my photos/text where I want it to go and it looks great in the sitebuilder, but when I view it on the web, everything moves and things are not lined up like I had in my tables.  Any suggestions?

Thank you for your time, irene

Answer
You might want to try DIV tags. Tables should work. Why don't you check the options for how the images is set such as centered, top, bottom and make sure they are all the same. Are your images saved with the same heights, widths and correct resolution? It is difficult to tell what is happening without seeing your file.

I hope you have figured it out.
-Christine