www.thecraftgrotto.co.uk

[jo's hubby]

We are a small family run business offering a fast service and keen prices. :D Please look at our site and tell us what you think, at the moment we are having a sale with 10% off everything so we can make room for lots of nice new goodies

[0103media]

Your stuff looks great..

The site looks ok but you should get rid of the frames as it make life very hard for search engine it list your site and for you to promote it..

Good luck

ps not another craft forum :wink:

[jo's hubby]

Thanks for the constructive comments, much appreciated and we do understand about the frames but are stuck with them at the moment as the program we used (shopfactory) uses them, its very easy to use and has got us started but we are now looking for an alternative. We have thought about actinic and might trial that but if you have any other ideas would be gratefull for them
Thanks in anticipation :D

[0103media]

You can get both Free open source shopping cart and paid for one's

www.oscommerce.com is pretty amazing.. loads of mods..

zencart is good too.. its has the same backend as oscommerce but simper to us..

http://www.zen-cart.com/modules/frontpage/

Hope that helps a bit...

If you have any more info on what you want just ask :wink:

[SteveS]

Hi Mike,

I use NVu, which is a free designer much better than many as it has a far less steep learning curve :) You can get it from http://www.nvu.com/ - it also has a great support forum! You do need to run your pages through HTML Tidy - from http://tidy.sourceforge.net/#binaries - as it tends to create extraneous blank lines, but that's its only real weakness. I know it's considered wrong by many, but I use tables instead of frames because of the problems frames cause :wink:

Somewhat more sophisticated, but something I've been playing around with recently, is BlueVoda which is a free download from http://support.vodahost.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=1

Steve :)
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[jo's hubby]

thanks steve