Need to sell my art, what software do I use?
July 29, 2006 5:07 PM Subscribe
What best open source software can I used to sell 10,000 paintings?
First of the year I came up with the idea to sell 10,000 paintings to raise money for my school. I haven't found software yet that I feel good with.
* First started with pre-populated Pixel page similar to milliondollarhomepage. I liked how I could put all 10,000 images on one page. This was a pain in the but to manage and had lots of complaints about how small the images were and how it was imagery overload.
* Moved to Gallery with paypal plugin. Could not get it setup right and I didn't like the feel of it. When the image is sold I need to make it go away. It seemed more for selling photos then a painting.
* Then I tried OSCommerece, Zen Cart and Cube Cart. All have had their problems. Slow responds, Displaying 300 images on one page...etc
* So with my HTML / CSS knowledge I built the site by hand. I like it but it is a pain in the butt to administer.
What else should I tried? Is their something specific that i can use that's made for selling paintings? Something that will read a directory and generate thumbnails, something that you can modify theme to your liking, something that will work with paypal. Will remove item once sold. ...etc
Much help appreciated. Thanks.
First of the year I came up with the idea to sell 10,000 paintings to raise money for my school. I haven't found software yet that I feel good with.
* First started with pre-populated Pixel page similar to milliondollarhomepage. I liked how I could put all 10,000 images on one page. This was a pain in the but to manage and had lots of complaints about how small the images were and how it was imagery overload.
* Moved to Gallery with paypal plugin. Could not get it setup right and I didn't like the feel of it. When the image is sold I need to make it go away. It seemed more for selling photos then a painting.
* Then I tried OSCommerece, Zen Cart and Cube Cart. All have had their problems. Slow responds, Displaying 300 images on one page...etc
* So with my HTML / CSS knowledge I built the site by hand. I like it but it is a pain in the butt to administer.
What else should I tried? Is their something specific that i can use that's made for selling paintings? Something that will read a directory and generate thumbnails, something that you can modify theme to your liking, something that will work with paypal. Will remove item once sold. ...etc
Much help appreciated. Thanks.
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posted by mmdei at 5:27 PM on July 29, 2006