Selling Merchandise
I got interested in selling merchandise on my blog through shopping carts, well only after it gets famous and is at the google and yahoo level. 
Anyway, I looked for solutions on how to get things done. Self hosted ecommerce software are nice, that is until you get into dilemmas, like programming, security issues etc2x. So the best solution, in my humble opinion is probably the hosted solution or shops that are hosted by other services.
I googled it and wound up on ashopcommerce. One great advantage in using their service is that they host your shop, which means less space and bw consumption on your servers; they maintain your shop, so that means less burden on the administrators part; and they will give you support, so that if you run into problems you will have fallback or a go to solution incase you run into problems you cant solve yourself.
Backend So, for the review, I tried ashopcommerce’ demo on their website, I clicked on the admin demo and guess what showed up? “this site requires Internet explorer 5.5+”. OMGWTF what gives? Everyone knows that the world hates IE (well me atleast), so thats a big down down for me. I’m on linux and am using opera web browser, this means that I’m stuck, for now atleast. Everyone should start using Firefox btw.
Frontend. The good thing about their service though is their flawless frontend. Their frontend featured the same functionality as that of amazon, so if you want a professional solution I suggest using ther services. Their frontend more than makes up for their major browser flaw in the backend. Everyone should test it themselves though www.ashopcommerce.com
So, my final recommendation is that everyone should try it and use it if they are looking to make money by selling stuff on their site.
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