I am slowly building my website (not online yet) and just wanted to run some ideas by you. 1. I plan on having set prices on common coins based on condition. The commons will not have pictures. (it takes alot of time to get a pic of each one and I have several thousand coins). I will have a pull down menu where you can order in quanity for the commons. 2. For conditions I will have a separate page to give examples based on coin type long wth a discription of each grade. 3. I will have pictures of the major coins. 4. My prices will always remain reasonable- I will never ask full book values. I need your help to try and figure out how to do multiple purchase shipping discounts through paypal. I am using HTML code for the paypal and rest of the site.
If you don't have pics I can assure you I will not buy the coins. You should put pics of everything you want to sell even though it takes time. You only have to list them a few at a time and eventualy you will have a inventory.
Why have the coins on the site, if they are commons, without pictures? Everything else sounds okay...
As an example : I have like 300 1945 wheat cents that will sell for very cheap individually. In order to keep a good inventory I want to make available several. It would seem unproductive to scan each one. I want to have a good variety on my site just incase people need commons.
I am just trying to get some ideas. I can totally understand the need of pictures and that is what I will probably do.
Quite an ambitious undertaking. My only piece of advice is to not use HTML. Save yourself a series of major headaches and try creating it using PHP and MySQL. MySQL allows you to create databases to house your inventory and PHP easily traverses the database and generates the website for you. PHP also has security advantages over HTML. I'd suggest picking up a book about PHP - most beginner books have tutorials for creating online stores.
