Stamp brain - what direction to go to set up an ecommerce t-shirt site. Please help wise people!

Hello

I have a little experience of 10 years creating web sites, but things have changed a lot (but I'm very good to teach myself).  Can someone advise me on how to proceed?

I want to create a t-shirt ecommerce site and have no money to pay someone to make the site (perhaps when the company takes off, I will, but for now)-I design myself and have all the design elements made, but do not know the best way to implement given all the technology out there. and do not want to go in a direction, namely my efforts have been wasted much later.  Here's my way of thinking...

The main site contains t-shirts.  When a user clicks on a picture, it takes an acronym "t shirt their page where they can configure the design options (put the drawing on the Pocket, back or forward in the Center, etc.).»  I was going to create checkboxes for them to do that, once clicked, will change the image to show what he looks like.  This means I want to create an image for all possible options to check and load that into the "it's what looks like you t shirt" (enough and I can't do that I think that easy).  I'll do it for each t-shirt on the home page.

But I thought, I might just have a t-shirt plane in space "is what looks like you t shirt ' and with an image of the design, simply reposition and resize using (and this is where my knoweldge is small for now) jqeury or some other languages, or even CSS and div?  What would be the best approach?  That way I would only create the design and the White T-shirt and use the code to position it to represent the final product.  It would be better to use a CMS as a Joomla for this (which seems very complicated)?  Before going further than the design I thought that I would ask you intelligent people.

Thank you if you got that day...

Part 2 of dilemma:

The user will then click on proceed to checkout where I use a shopping cart system (probably Zen Cart because it's on the server the hosting company who intend to use (unless it is suggested otherwise)).  I need every version of the t-shirt to get a product ID unique which refers to a database that contains pricing options and it will be sent to the 'zen cart' and who will process the transaction.  My understanding is correct?

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.  Learning one or two things (CSS and DW) is OK, learn 5 things at once makes my head ache! I got confused

Zen cart is free.  And you get what you pay for - software that is difficult to work with, very cheap, poorly supported and has many security holes, that's why hackers love to exploit.

Get a real basket. Money well spent.  Build one yourself is risky and requires expert competence with server-security, data encryption, PHP, MySql, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PCI compliance, SSL certificates, etc...   You will drive yourself crazy trying to learn what you don't know.

UltraCart is easy to install and they have a 30 day free trial so you can test before decide you.  There are many PCI compatible shopping cart that you can use.   If you have a merchant bank account, start with your bank to find out which processors and gateways they require you to use.  Which will limit your search to carts that work with your payment gateway.

In regards to your site, keep it simple, semantic, friendly and responsive user.

Nancy O.

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