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    Joomla or wordpress for selling multiple products online?

    I agree. I wouldn't use Wordpress or Joomla as nether are really shopping carts at heart. OpenCart would be a good option for you and would save you a lot of messing around as you have a working shop from the second it's installed. If you can install Wordpress, then you'll have no trouble...
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    Advice required please

    Absolutely! If you've got an ebay shop turning a profit don't throw it away just because you set up your own site. You need as much exposure as possible. The chances are that your own site would take a while to get traffic. I don't think you were planning to close the ebay shop anyway where you?
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    Advice required please

    To get a banner made you could try using PeoplePerHour. It's an online service where you create a brief and say how much you are willing to pay for it. Then a number of designers will bid on the work and you can view each of their portfolios. You'd get a good deal that way.
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    adds for free ?

    Have you thought about trying an affiliate scheme? This is where other websites will link to you for free on the understanding that they get commission on any sales generated from you link. There are affiliate services out there where you can search for websites that will provide a link...
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    adds for free ?

    Yes Gumtree is a good option, but you do have to pay to place ads in certain categories after your first few posts. Still, if you get good feedback then it can be worth it. You just have to try and stand out from the competition as some categories tent to get flooded with people advertising the...
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    adds for free ?

    I have to agree with you there about Adwords not being as good a deal as everyone makes out. I think Adwords is great for keyword research, especially if you can use a free voucher etc. to work on list of keywords that convert best. Then you can go on to use them to optimize your site for...
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    Which e-commerce service should i use?

    True that it is fast and it has good templates. With regards to saving money, remember that Shopify does have a reasonably large monthly fee, so in the long term it might not be that economical. It's a good place to start however. There's nothing to stop someone using Shopify to test out an...
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    Which e-commerce service should i use?

    It should be easy enough. After you subscribe to a Shopify account it takes you through a setup process that covers everything from adding products to setting up your preferred payment method. You also get a helper assigned to you that will contact you via email for any queries.
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    Want a website designed - Warwickshire based

    There's no harm in still hiring a web designer if you want to have more control over the look and layout of your site. It really depends how much you want to spend. Obviously an off-the-shelf template is the cheapest if you can find something suitable. Also, if you use a designer, make sure they...
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    Want a website designed - Warwickshire based

    It's probably not a huge issue. From an SEO perspective, it may be better to have it in the same subdomain so that it benefits from the page ranking of your main site.
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    Want a website designed - Warwickshire based

    I agree. If you're not a developer then don't trying using Joomla for this kind of thing. I would try OpenCart of Magneto also.
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    online store

    I think you need to focus more on how the shop is going to be built and marketed rather than which hosting company to use. To be honest, there are thousands you could use and most would cost the same and offer a similar package. Disk space an bandwidth are unlikely to be an issue until your...
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    Creating a website, where to start?

    Hmm. It's difficult to say what the ideal solution would be without knowing more about the service you are offering to potential customers. Are you offering them a physical product, or a service via the website?
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    Web Design

    I'd also say it depends. Let's say £200 gets you a brochure site. Well you might get some have-a-go designer producing something that you could have done yourself. But then again you might get a talented web designer producing something wonderful because they had some spare time on their hands...
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    Best ecommerce shop host (i.e Shopify, 1&1)

    ...also. I've not used 1 & 1, but I have seen their advert and templates. It looks like they spent all their budget on advertising and forgot to hire any web designers. Pretty bad stuff.
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