So, I turned the switch on for http://www.scandinavianaccents.com/ today.  It’s a clean design e-commerce site selling Scandinavian Jewelery as well as high quality tea cups.

I built it on the Network Solutions E-commerce system.  It’s a decent turn-key system that I recommend for most start ups.  The monthly cost is high, but the development cost is low.  Of course, there are down sides as well, but I’ll cover those later.

For this site, I started with an html design and needed to make it fit into a system.  Due to the fact that it’s a proprietary system, I was somewhat limited in how I had to work with it, but that didn’t limit me much.  The big difference was how I had to go about updates.  There was a huge saving in development time for this too, letting the client get an initial site up for a very small investment.  When their business takes off, I hope to be able to redo their site in a full e-commerce system that they can own, probably Magento, but for a start up, they are up and running for a low cost.