How do you recommend I go about it? Need to set one up for the gf for christmas.

Selling bags and Dresses and things.

Is it difficult? Is there some kind of template I can use? Anyone got a vague estimate on how much an ssl cert would be for something like that?

Ta

cheers,

i check it out

paypal is the devil. Don't use paypal.

Why not try going down the eBay store way?

You'll also want to use Paypal for a payment option - banks are fucking tight on giving out merchant facilities for online shops.

You'll also want to use Paypal for a payment option - banks are fucking tight on giving out merchant facilities for online shops.

+1

That said we had some trouble with PayPal for a site once - for some reason that PayPal could never tell us most transactions were being blocked for security reasons.

If you have a semi-rational hatred of PayPal then you can use eWay or something ... but you'll probably need developer help for that as common eCommerce packages probably won't integrate with the more esoteric payment gateways out of the box.

paypal ftw

As an alternative to joomla (and also if you want an asp.net based cms), go for DotNetNuke.

Don't use joomla; use drupal with ubercart

http://drupal.org/node/995778
http://drupal.org/project/ubercart

Trust me, I used to be a full-time joomla developer

Don't use joomla; use drupal with ubercart http://drupal.org/node/995778 http://drupal.org/project/ubercart Trust me, I used to be a full-time joomla developer

agrees with this ^

I agree with Drupal and ubercart as well. I used to use Joomla a while back but ditched it in favour of e107 and then c5 and now finally I've moved to Drupal.