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This is a basic question, I know. But I've gotten confused lately with referrals, and building lenses and outside pages. My current idea is to build an outside website, with it's own domain name, to promote my items and my referral items. I was thinking of going through godaddy.com, but do I even need to do that? Can I do it more cheaply and easily through wordpress?
Ack - I'm confused at the moment with all the possibilities! Exciting, but I've got to get it straight in my head and go in a direction that will be the most effective. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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LaBoutiqueEclectique wrote:Here's my new 3 day old site set up on weebly.com La Boutique EclectiqueLook at the showcases under "Rickshaw Products" to see an example of how you can promote others. I'm also running a blog on the site under "News" Weebly is extremely easy to use (drag and drop modules to create pages) and free. You can buy a domain name through them and continue with free hosting, or upgrade to a premium account if you want a few extra bells and whistles too. So far very pleased with their services  Sorry just did a quick edit to fix URL 
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Wow, that looks very nice. Professional. I'll look into weebly.
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You can not use wordpress.com. They don't allow commercial blogs.
If you have your own website you can use wordpress, though. You can even use the zazzle store builder with a special plugin with wordpress.
You can use blogger, facebook, twitter, pinterest, squidoo. Those are all free. I believe there are still a couple of people here that offer space on their site with wordpress blogs for a minimal fee.
You should look in the tools forum.
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I recommend using self-hosted Wordpress. It's very flexible, and it's much better to have a site on your own domain that you control. Free sites can be useful, but remember that they could pull the plug on you at any time.
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beautiful looking site
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LaBoutique, how much if any custom HTML work did you do on your weebly page to get it to look like that. Particularly the dropdown menus.
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None throughout the whole site as far as the site structure goes.
The dropdown menus are the way the template I chose operates (I'm pretty sure most will work in a similar fashion). Create a few pages then in the "pages" tab of the dashboard you can sort the order in which they appear on the menu.
Any pages you want nested in a dropdown you just drag them a little to the right and that will create the sub page, hence creating the dropdown on the live site.
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I love weebly, I registered a domain at NameCheap (referral link) and pointed it to my weebly site - www.personalizedbyu.com It was easy and free.
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weebly.com is great and easily customisable. Even the free version is not restricted to the templates provided and you can use the whole page as in this example: http://zazzlegallery.weebly.com/
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I have a site showing how to add Zazzle products to WordPress using a version of the Zazzle Store Builder plugin. Here's a sample page link images, links from Zazzle and the plugin: http://rightbrainleftturn.com/brain-shop/
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What a great site, La Boutique Eclectique!
I find the problem is that to outside sites you also need to drive traffic + invest a lot of time and effort to keep it up to date and new ...
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@ artifulThank you for including a link to my shop in your Zazzle Gallery!
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What a well done site. I'll take a look at Weebly.
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Can weebly work with Zazzle Store Builder?
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I was really frustrated trying to make the store work until I found Bill at SkinUrSiteFor $5 you can buy the Premium version of zstore which was much easier to work with and allows more options for customizing your store. And for $3 a month he'll install the plugin into WordPress for you and host your site. Plus he can help you out if you get stuck and something isn't working right. Weebly may be free, but I didn't like it back before I knew anything about running a php script through a web site. I don't know how well it interacts with the zstore, but I believe that zstore and the premium plugin were made to work in WordPress. You can host WordPress at a lot of places, but you can't run your store on their free sites, and I've never seen good WP hosting for as cheap as $3 a month. Plus anywhere else they're not going to be familiar with zstore and able to help you with your store if you have trouble with it.. You can get there through this link: SkinUrSite
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Nice work on your site @LaBoutique. I use my own domain name and self hosted wordpress. http://j32design.com/
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