I posted a while back in the General Entrepreneurship forum, and I guess it took a while for MJ to okay the thread It received about 110 views but no replies
After some feedback from potential customers, friends and family, I decided to re-work the site as it was clearly not user-friendly enough.
This is the result: Home -teoTime
I could really use your feedback and answer any questions you guys may have.
Some Highlights:
#1: I built the website myself, no website dev for me.
#2: Wordpress + Woothemes: Superstore + Woocommerce + Woocommerce Subscriptions Plugin (Comment if you want to know about the dozen other plug-ins I used)
#3: Take the Code Academy "Web Fundamentals" course (it's free). You'll learn just enough about CSS that you can change most, if not all, of the visual aspects of your wordpress theme. CSS is all about logic. Find the right class/id then change it and test and test and test til you get the right changes. (Comment to ask me about how to do that and I'll try to answer it, but I basically brute-forced all the code Trial and Error baby!)
#4: I created all the icons in Photoshop. (HUGE trial and error there. But to put it into perspective: I learned everything I needed to learn about photoshop in like a week. All you have to do is google how to do certain things and then practice. Provided, I've always been more arts-oriented so it was very easy for me.)
#5: I bought a used Canon T2i with kit lens for $300. Borrowed a friend's tripod. Built a photo light box for about $3 dollars (provided I had three lamps lying around the house) and took pictures of my product. (Comment if you are interested in knowing more about that process.)
All in all, the website itself cost me less than $700 (and that's including the cost of the camera, if you can borrow someone's for free, more power to you!). The great thing about all this, is that everything I bought and/or learned I can use over and over again. Woothemes has no limits to how often you use the theme(s) you paid for. It's $70 for 3 themes. Woocommerce is free. Wordpress is free. If you want to use a payment gateway other than paypal then you have to pay $49 for each plugin, a one time fee.
Cheers,
ALSL
After some feedback from potential customers, friends and family, I decided to re-work the site as it was clearly not user-friendly enough.
This is the result: Home -teoTime
I could really use your feedback and answer any questions you guys may have.
Some Highlights:
#1: I built the website myself, no website dev for me.
#2: Wordpress + Woothemes: Superstore + Woocommerce + Woocommerce Subscriptions Plugin (Comment if you want to know about the dozen other plug-ins I used)
#3: Take the Code Academy "Web Fundamentals" course (it's free). You'll learn just enough about CSS that you can change most, if not all, of the visual aspects of your wordpress theme. CSS is all about logic. Find the right class/id then change it and test and test and test til you get the right changes. (Comment to ask me about how to do that and I'll try to answer it, but I basically brute-forced all the code Trial and Error baby!)
#4: I created all the icons in Photoshop. (HUGE trial and error there. But to put it into perspective: I learned everything I needed to learn about photoshop in like a week. All you have to do is google how to do certain things and then practice. Provided, I've always been more arts-oriented so it was very easy for me.)
#5: I bought a used Canon T2i with kit lens for $300. Borrowed a friend's tripod. Built a photo light box for about $3 dollars (provided I had three lamps lying around the house) and took pictures of my product. (Comment if you are interested in knowing more about that process.)
All in all, the website itself cost me less than $700 (and that's including the cost of the camera, if you can borrow someone's for free, more power to you!). The great thing about all this, is that everything I bought and/or learned I can use over and over again. Woothemes has no limits to how often you use the theme(s) you paid for. It's $70 for 3 themes. Woocommerce is free. Wordpress is free. If you want to use a payment gateway other than paypal then you have to pay $49 for each plugin, a one time fee.
Cheers,
ALSL
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