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How do I create a website where buyers can buy and pay electronically? I want to use PayPal for payment.?

So I want to sell some handmade jewelry of mine and I don't want to sell it on any kind of auction type site IE: eBay. I want to create MY OWN website where I can sell my jewelry... I know how to do basic web design but don't know how to make it so that my buyers can purchase my items with a button of some sort and then it e-mails me what they bought. So how can I do that BY MYSELF WITHOUT THE AID OF ANOTHER KNOCKOFF SITE? (I want to emphasizethe by myself part seeing since many people in my experience tend to be alliterate)

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1. You can go to anyone such as Geocities and get Geoplus or use Yahoo Domains (same company), Register.com, Network Solutions and get a site. Most have their own shopping cart tool and you just get an ecommerce package. You can also get a cart tool from Paypal and use easy cut and paste HTML code to put a shopping cart on your page for your items. Go to the above sites and do a comparison. They have templates, help pages and packages to fit your needs.
2. You need to open a business account on PayPal. Then there are several options for accepting payments. See https://www.paypal.com/helpcenter/main.jsp;jsessionid=HrSJlQNZDxpmT0YSy2Tk17jbfk6g62fg8vgJJXZybPgWJqDjWkGG!1093789069?t=browseTab&opentopic=20173&topicName=Website+Payments&topicTreeId=null&showcontent=true&lstLanguageResults=en_US&locale=en_US&_dyncharset=UTF-8&countrycode=US&cmd=_help&serverInstance=9004. I recently signed up for Website Payments Standard. After I got through the sign-up process, PayPal gave me the HTML code to add a button to my webpage. You just copy the HTML code to your page, and a button appears.
3. If you are looking into starting a real business and you are serious about selling online I would recommend staying away from Paypal. Get a real shopping cart designed so you can manage all your products. Some of my clients went with Medora Solutions out of Vancouver (http://www.medora.ca) for their shopping carts. Have a look at their websites: http://www.kelliesutton.com http://www.tilajewelry.com http://www.sugarlime.com http://www.essentialworks.ca I have no idea how much they paid. Good luck.
4. i dont know
5. Take some time and learn Dreamweaver. This is the basis of any site building. You cannot just try and hope for the best. I would aim for a niche jewelry market, as you will not do well with a generic jewelry website. Template monster sell templates that you can modify, and they are cheap. I use host gator and godaddy for my hosting and domain names (cheap). Email me for more info: http://www.johnlambertconsulting.com The Website Guru: http://www.johnlambertconsulting.com