We don't charge for shipping to anywhere in the world.
It didn't take long to get the smashing
glass webshop site together and able to take credit card payments online
with paypal and drupal
- a small retailers match made in heaven. This site runs on Drupal 4.7 which
is real sweet, totally intuitive with lots of help it is a beautiful system.
Here is a webshop howto tutorial then:
It must run PHP and a database - I used MySQL.
I was recommended to get a LAMP server - that acronym is LINUX, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
As I sit on the beach, sand beneath my toes. Waves roll in and out as The sea, our great mother, breathes And with the rythm of the surf come Treasures from times past caressed in her bosom and returned to me here. Seaworn Glass & ancient coal black as pitch.
A few folks have asked me how this whole web shop thingy is put together and what do I mean by free software and open source.
My servers run on GNU / Linux. A free operating system (all computer need on to operate).
I use Apache to serve the HTML and multimedia, the content is stored in a database - currently I am using MySQL, and the webscripting language PHP which preprocesses the request for a web page, queries the database and using a template make the web page you are looking at now.
Here is a link to our shop on google maps
Directions to our gigha shop.
I just made the layout glassy. Its not really made of glass though 8-). It is CSS gleaned from the downloadable tutorial on Eric Meyer's Excellent Site on the subject of CSS Web-Design zen.
More Specifically it is a fixed width non tiling background, er...thingy as in :
background-image: url(beach.jpg);
background-position: 0 0;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
and
background-image: url(beachb.jpg);
Smashing Glass has a blog!.
This is the Webmaster blogging.
8-)
This site is running on Linux LAMP Apache Servers of jmhz using the Open Source Drupal Content Management System.
Open Source means it is Free Software, freedom to run, study, distribute and improve the program. Thats means you get the source code so you can see how it works and you change the code it and recompile it and distribute your changes so long as you uphold these freedoms.
A 'commons' of code owned by all humanity.
Thanks to:
Richard Stallman & Linus T