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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 2960472" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>To be honest if you have a piece or two to sell every now and then building a site out will probably not do much good. You would honestly be better off posting it on Ebay in their heavy equipment section or one of the other sites dedicated to selling equipment.</p><p></p><p>If you have a constant supply of stuff you sell you need to realise that you will have to do a lot of work to get people to your site. You can easily register in a search engine but it could take years before it gets high enough in the rankings to do a whole lot of good. This means you will need to post pictures and such on places like craigslist or backpage in the for sale sections in your market area's. I have never dealt with the generic DIY builder sites but if you think they are difficult to navigate and deal with for setup some other stuff can be worse. I use Drupal for a lot of what I do to manage the pages and linking and there is other site software that will do the same but you will have to set things up and then manage the install or rely on your hosting company's automated system to do it for you. I don't think it's hard but my wife stares at the stuff like a monkey doing a math problem. Once the site is up you will then have to fill in the content so you will probably either want to get a WYSIWYG editor that will work with the software or find something that you can use on your computer to edit the content and then either copy and paste the HTML or find another way to load the code into the pages.</p><p></p><p>If you honestly want to try a DIY I would suggest that you take an old computer and toss Apache, MySQL, and PHP onto it and mess around before you try and go it alone with something like hostgator. There are versions of Linux that are ready to go with some minor setup and selection, one off the top of my head would be Ubuntu Server. Download the ISO, install the os onto a computer that you have sitting in a corner collecting dust after you retrieve anything that you want to save off of it and go from there. And remember Google is your friend when you do all of this.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=install+ubuntu+LAMP+tutorial" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=install+ubuntu+LAMP+tutorial</a></p><p><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-drupal-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server-with-apache" target="_blank">https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-drupal-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server-with-apache</a></p><p></p><p>There is tons of information out there to help walk you through anything you want to do but if you have problems you may be better off having someone else do it for you. This is especially true if you want to deal with a lot of items that may rotate quite a bit. And at the beginning it will be slow and you will still need to cross post to drive traffic to your site. With items like this unless there is going to be shipping involved I would not even consider doing online payments as you will have a nice two to five percent bite taken right off the top of the sale price. It's easier to say cash and carry if they are going to be picking up IMHO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 2960472, member: 29706"] To be honest if you have a piece or two to sell every now and then building a site out will probably not do much good. You would honestly be better off posting it on Ebay in their heavy equipment section or one of the other sites dedicated to selling equipment. If you have a constant supply of stuff you sell you need to realise that you will have to do a lot of work to get people to your site. You can easily register in a search engine but it could take years before it gets high enough in the rankings to do a whole lot of good. This means you will need to post pictures and such on places like craigslist or backpage in the for sale sections in your market area's. I have never dealt with the generic DIY builder sites but if you think they are difficult to navigate and deal with for setup some other stuff can be worse. I use Drupal for a lot of what I do to manage the pages and linking and there is other site software that will do the same but you will have to set things up and then manage the install or rely on your hosting company's automated system to do it for you. I don't think it's hard but my wife stares at the stuff like a monkey doing a math problem. Once the site is up you will then have to fill in the content so you will probably either want to get a WYSIWYG editor that will work with the software or find something that you can use on your computer to edit the content and then either copy and paste the HTML or find another way to load the code into the pages. If you honestly want to try a DIY I would suggest that you take an old computer and toss Apache, MySQL, and PHP onto it and mess around before you try and go it alone with something like hostgator. There are versions of Linux that are ready to go with some minor setup and selection, one off the top of my head would be Ubuntu Server. Download the ISO, install the os onto a computer that you have sitting in a corner collecting dust after you retrieve anything that you want to save off of it and go from there. And remember Google is your friend when you do all of this. [URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=install+ubuntu+LAMP+tutorial[/URL] [URL]https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-drupal-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server-with-apache[/URL] There is tons of information out there to help walk you through anything you want to do but if you have problems you may be better off having someone else do it for you. This is especially true if you want to deal with a lot of items that may rotate quite a bit. And at the beginning it will be slow and you will still need to cross post to drive traffic to your site. With items like this unless there is going to be shipping involved I would not even consider doing online payments as you will have a nice two to five percent bite taken right off the top of the sale price. It's easier to say cash and carry if they are going to be picking up IMHO. [/QUOTE]
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