Description
I am going to start a new business and will need a website to sell my products.I am going to be selling E-cigarettes. I want a clean looking site created in WordPress. I already have another business and a site was created for me.
www.chromehorserentals.com. As you can see I like it simple (although this is a little old school looking). I don’t know if I should have a custom theme created or use a WordPress theme. I fear that WordPress themes when they need to be upgraded will mess up any plug-ins, shopping cart features, etc. I also ran into hacking problems with just having WordPress themes available within my dashboard! If I’m wrong please advise. I don’t know if it is possible but is picking out a WordPress theme but getting rid of all code not relevant to my site an option; but keep the design aspects of it? I will need guidance on if it would be better for me to have a custom theme built, use a WordPress theme, or a theme you have created based on what I am looking to do below.
My current site has a custom theme and I have never had a problem with it. And after it was set up with just a little guidance I was able to add all my own pics, text, widgets, forms, etc. It was under $300 for someone to create that site. I’m not looking for cheap but just wanted to give you an idea of what I have paid in the past.
I will have probably less than 20 products but each will have colors, sizes, flavors, etc. I want a simple shopping cart/checkout system either custom built or plug-in. And I will need to be able to easily add my own pics, description of products, colors, prices, etc.
I am unfamiliar with the shopping cart aspect of a site (other than using one), so please let me know if I am wrong on some things and if you would be able to set up for me a WordPress shopping cart plug-in or I would need a custom one built or some other kind of platform.
I want the shopping cart and checkout system to be able to:
Don’t know if I want 2 or 3 columns yet. But nice big clean graphic pertaining to e-cigarettes, vapor, etc. with name included in the header (I will need a logo also after I pick a domain name) and somewhere a customer log in box, maybe putting links to articles relating to e-cig news, rolling testimonials.
The home page will have a small description of our business in the body along with pictures of the main product categories we sell; and when they click on a product category picture it will take them to a page with those specific products/prices and they will be able to select specific colors, strengths, flavors, and add the item(s) to the shopping cart.
I want to be able to add all my own text, picts, customize product info etc. with your guidance after site is approved. So I will need to know if that is included in the flat rate price to get me started. And then an hourly rate for in the future if I need further site work that is out of my realm.
I will be using my current hosting provider BlueHost that I will need you to upload final site/files. I will add plug-ins for SSL certificate, Sucuri for hacking prevention, wordfence for hacking monitoring, and others.
Anyway I hope that gives you a clear idea of what I’m looking for and can give me a quote. And please tell me what it will include. I do not have a time frame for this project for now; next couple of months. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.