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Parent Post: Looking to build a website
float4
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1/10/2026, 1:15:34 PM
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You are talking about pre-baked platforms such as a squarespace. Its easy and convenient but you are under their terms of service, and they take a lot of your money, more than you think. I would rather do like ebay than that kind of ecommerce site. Look at Magento, its big but open source/free version and does everything you would want long term. Don't trust a foreigner to build you a site, they will either hack you or sell your credentials to someone that will. You can host Magento on most hosts. It's hard to learn it but you have a major platform under you. I had an ecommerce side business for 7 years, I sold across platforms, but my own site was Magento hosted. You need to get your own merchant account for credit cards, but its way cheaper. DO NOT allow shipping to a different address than the address on the c card, you will immediately get scammed.
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goyim
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1/12/2026, 6:56:15 PM
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Thanks man, yeah this is what I keep running into, these cookie cutter webpage builders which seem like they'd be ideal for someone with little to no interest in building a site themselves or someone who lacks the ability to learn how webpages are built or just refuse to learn. I personally enjoy website building, especially from scratch so you can build a site to your preferences. That's how the old angelfire worked, it appears like even angelfire has been Bought out and turned into another cookie cutter webpage builder where you need to pay some high-priced monthly fee to get a basic looking webpage built, and you have like website designers from overseas who will chat with you if you have questions. I rather teach myself frankly, unless I was to find a legit, semi local (fellow American) who is willing to build me a site to my specifications for a set, one time fee. Not some monthly subscription fee, im aware that for most domain names ill be paying a monthly or annual fee, and that im willing to do, but if im going to make a site i dont see how a monthly fee is logical, oncethe sites built the amount of upkeep or maintenance/changes being made woild be minimal and not justify a consitent price to keep a mid looking webpage running
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float4
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1/12/2026, 8:53:24 PM
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Create a local copy of Magento and play with it. There are hundreds of skins like the ones the other platforms use, but u control the code.
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