Shopify without the Shop?
October 2, 2010 8:30 PM Subscribe
Shopify without the shop? I'm looking for simple-ish, templated, hosted, all in one website solutions ala Shopify, Good Barry, Clover, Virb... but not. What's the latest and greatest alternative to rolling to my own with WordPress?
Last year I recommended Shopify in answer to an Ask question and kept hoping I would have a client I could use it for because it looks great - it's feature richl, the UI is really nice, the pricing structure is sound, the templates are lovely right out of the box, and the CSS is editable. Win.
I now have a semi-client who basically needs a band website - events (gigs), albums, audio, gallery, news. I normally create quick sites for clients in WordPress but I don't have the time and he doesn't have the budget for that. Every "out of the box" alternative I know about isn't sufficient:
Shopify: As much as I still really want to use Shopify, this is not an ecommerce project.
Good Barry: Bought by Adobe, to whom I am not gagging to give money, and the pricing is insanely complex.
Clover: Appears to produce only Flash sites.
Virb: Sucks out loud. The user interface is the polar opposite of WYSIWYG. "Events" are a page you type in. Album feature is nice but the templates are ugly.
There must be somewhere I can spend a few hours sorting this poor guy out and then leave him to add stuff and pay his monthly fee to whomever. What am I missing?
Last year I recommended Shopify in answer to an Ask question and kept hoping I would have a client I could use it for because it looks great - it's feature richl, the UI is really nice, the pricing structure is sound, the templates are lovely right out of the box, and the CSS is editable. Win.
I now have a semi-client who basically needs a band website - events (gigs), albums, audio, gallery, news. I normally create quick sites for clients in WordPress but I don't have the time and he doesn't have the budget for that. Every "out of the box" alternative I know about isn't sufficient:
Shopify: As much as I still really want to use Shopify, this is not an ecommerce project.
Good Barry: Bought by Adobe, to whom I am not gagging to give money, and the pricing is insanely complex.
Clover: Appears to produce only Flash sites.
Virb: Sucks out loud. The user interface is the polar opposite of WYSIWYG. "Events" are a page you type in. Album feature is nice but the templates are ugly.
There must be somewhere I can spend a few hours sorting this poor guy out and then leave him to add stuff and pay his monthly fee to whomever. What am I missing?
You might look into Yola for general purposes but specifically for bands you may also be interested in HostBaby, from the creator of CD Baby.
posted by FlamingBore at 7:02 AM on October 3, 2010
posted by FlamingBore at 7:02 AM on October 3, 2010
I'm not sure if you don't want to do wordpress because of the time to set it up or because of all the theme-work, but I just saw this pop up in my feed reader and it seemed like it could be a good choice for you.
posted by thatone at 10:22 PM on October 3, 2010
posted by thatone at 10:22 PM on October 3, 2010
Response by poster: Also found, in case they're of use to anyone else:
Flavors.me for templated websites, and its cousin Goodsie for ecommerce.
posted by DarlingBri at 12:52 AM on October 9, 2010
Flavors.me for templated websites, and its cousin Goodsie for ecommerce.
posted by DarlingBri at 12:52 AM on October 9, 2010
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