Starting a new online business

[AristotlesOwn]

I need help finding an inexpensive solution for Logo Design, an inexpensive CMS (joomla or drupal), and a cheap developer. As for that last point, I'm using rentacoder.com, but if anyone knows about anything consistent and inexpensive, I'll look into it.

 

[Cock Head Jones]

I need help finding an inexpensive solution for Logo Design, an inexpensive CMS (joomla or drupal), and a cheap developer. As for that last point, I'm using rentacoder.com, but if anyone knows about anything consistent and inexpensive, I'll look into it.

If you really want to hire a contractor to build it out, I'd say go with joomla. I like drupal better for certain applications (nonprofits, online communities) but joomla is a better cms for ecommerce.

An easier route than choosing a cms and building from the ground up would be to build your site on one of the better ecommerce packages available. I listed my favorite one and a few other popular solutions. Take a strong look and you may see that it makes more sense to roll in that direction.

http://instantestore.com/ecommerce_features.cfm
This is my favorite out of these ecommerce solutions. Check the features list. These folks think about everything from a sales/ marketing point of view and if you ask them to add a feature, they'll most likely do it if it makes sense. They have a design team that will create a logo for you as well.

http://signup.goodbarry.com/signup/obb.aspx
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/20/goodbarry-goodbusiness-aims-to-make-ecommerce-easier/
New service that I've hears good things about. They're offering a 3 month free trial through techcrunch for next 500 users entering code: GBIZTC

http://www.shopify.info
They get good reviews. The sites have a clean web2.0 look/ feel but most seem pretty basic.

 

[AristotlesOwn]

^^^ I appreciate the help. I'm very interested in the instantestore.com solution.

Thanks again

 

[Word]

go to guru.com and post a job and let the artist bid on your logo. Less than 500 dollars.