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Thread: How to create an online catalog?

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    How to create an online catalog?

    Hello,

    Firstly, I want everyone to know that I have no web site development experience at all. I was tasked with designing an online store for our retail business this past January. I outsourced the development to a company that I found on e-lance in India. The project went smoothly until it became time to bring our catalog online.

    I have been STUCK trying to figure out how to do this. At first I uploaded photos of most of the products that we carry but didn't input the information for the price, weight, or product description. I figured that I could do this second. But it now seems that I should have created a database to import into the site with the price, weight, and product descriptions and THEN upload the photos for the products.

    I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction and give me some information as to how a product catalog is usually constructed.

    Thanks,
    Chris

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    A database is usually the best way to go if you have more than a handful of products.

    www.oscommerce.com is an open source solution that is also a good one to study if you are creating your own. Although it is slightly over complicated by certain features which may not be relvant to you.

    If you already have a datasource for your products it's usually best to work from this.

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