Who has a Website & Is it worth it?

[JSR]

but it cost me £49!!!

This price gave me:

A domain name
12 Months Hosting

I've looked at the estorebuilder.co.uk website but I can't see any mention of the ongoing costs - i.e. the annual cost for the domain and hosting. I just see their terms and conditions that say that prices can change at any time. Do you know what you'll be paying for the second year?

As i said, im no computer wiz, but he had the 'basics' set up within 24 hours, that gave me a complete blank canvas and i then proceeded to upload all my own products in my own time through the admin page. Im still learning things on there..........like buy one get one free, how to add banners, how to add discount codes, etc etc etc

If you're doing all that yourself, then it's really no different than someone getting a domain name and webspace and then putting ZenCart (free) or similar on it. I'm not sure I see what benefit this estorebuilder.co.uk is...

[Traynor26]

Yep,

Asked that, the second year of hosting is £45, I have not hear of Zen Cart, but I msg say I'm more than happy with what I have paid.

I have regular contact with a human at the other end who I know by name and he has been more than helpful, they added an 'Image upload' facility for me, for only £30. I'm sure ps solos on here are confident that they could of done that themselves, but for £30 I was happy and it was done in 12 hours of asking for it

When I said a blank canvas, what I meant was that there was a few 'dummy' products for me to change and make my own, the whole structure of the site was there, I just had to personalise it and make it my own

As said before, I'm no PC boffin, and I'm sure there are better or may be even cheaper options out there, but the site has already paid for itself several times over, so I am 1 happy customer

Lee

[JSR]

When I said a blank canvas, what I meant was that there was a few 'dummy' products for me to change and make my own, the whole structure of the site was there, I just had to personalise it and make it my own

Yes, that's pretty much what you get with the free options like ZenCart (which includes image upload as standard).

As said before, I'm no PC boffin, and I'm sure there are better or may be even cheaper options out there, but the site has already paid for itself several times over, so I am 1 happy customer

At the end of the day, all that's important is that it does what you want it to do at an affordable price. I only asked the questions so that others who are looking at what to do will have the answers.

[Traynor26]

Totaly see where your coming from,

Wow, will deffo have to have a look at this ZanCart if they have an option for customers to upload images at no extra cost, a few others that I looked at wanted 100s to add this,

Thanks for the advice, might well re-think my options next year, but as you say, I'm happy with what I have paid at the moment.

Just might do some more research in the future

[kris_hm]

Traynor26 - nice looking webstore. It's true that you could get it all for free but it's not easy to install on server and set up properly if you don't have knowledge. So in my opinion the price you paid was fair.