I’m about 95% completed with my newest online project: Old Man Hodapp’s Worldly Treasures.
http://oldmanhodapp.com/I’ve toyed around with the idea of setting up an online store to sell all the things my family and I sell at various festivals, flea markets, pow wows, shin digs, swap meets, and box socials across the United States. Traditionally we’ve catered to the new age and Native American enthusiasts, but I think I can attract a much larger customer base online by creating what amounts to a J. Peterman catalog.
Dealing with the different e-commerce “solutions” (if you could even call them that) has been interesting- to say the least. There are quite a few e-commerce hosting providers from Yahoo to Shopify, all of which charge a silly monthly fee, offer almost no storage, and a cut of your overall sales. I wasn’t happy with giving someone money for doing something that I can do myself, being a big-wig on the Internet and all.
So with that, without even testing the water with my toe, I jumped in head first in to the world of terrible open source and commercial PHP applications.
