E-commerce website for my small business

• Project ID:

  782381

• Project Type:

  Fixed

• Budget:

  $250-$750 USD
  

Project Description:

I am looking for an experienced web designer to design and build a functional e-commerce website for me. This should be a simple project for those experts out there.
The website is for a small, web-based business selling t-shirts and stickers around a simple theme, so the layout and design need to be black/white/grey, and simple and clean.

The main goal is to allow people to purchase the products and pay securely via Payapl as quickly and easily as possible.

I'm pretty familiar with OSCommerce, but I'm also open to looking at Opencart, Drupal, Wordpress, or other ecommerce platforms out there that will help me reach my goal.

I really like the look and feel of this this e-commerce wordpress theme: http://templatic.com/ecommerce-themes/e-commerce - it doesn't feel like a stock, clunky, out-of-the-box e-commerce website. If you can show me a portfolio with that kind of innovative and clean design where it is not completely obvious I'm looking at a reskinned version of OScommerce, I will be happy.

I'm sure most e-commerce solutions have all of the following already, but if it helps you, the features I need are as follows:

• The usual stock info pages: home, news, about us, shipping, FAQ, etc. all modifiable through the back end.
• Banner/header that refreshes with a different image on each page.
• Shopping cart - Ideally, I'd like people to be able to shop and pay as a guest without having to create a user account just to make a purchase. If it's possible to make that step optional, that would be ideal. They should also have the option of creating an account.
• Online Payment Via paypal link to my paypal account
• Order Confirmation email/status updates
• A PDF invoice printing option for people who don't want to use Paypal, but would rather mail the payment in.
• Easy to manage CMS so i could add/delete a product any time
• facebook (like), twitter (Twit) button on feature item.
• User can add in review on the product they purchase with comments & rating (but I need to approve/moderate the comments through the back end).
• An additional, but very simple, image gallery on the menu where I can display photos received from customers showcasing my products.
• Open for future modification and additions.
• Simple enough that I am able to do the basic maintenance

For the products, I would like to have multiple pictures for each items and be able to zoom-in, or show larger pictures via lightbox or some other pop-up module.

For the shirts/products, each one would have to have different sizes/colours to choose from, but when the user changes the colour option of the shirt, it should change the picture on the screen automatically, the same goes for size. Hopefully that makes sense, I guess I just need the functionality, I can upload the photos much later.

The person I am looking for will need to provide suggestions, be able to meet deadlines and allow me to make changes on the layout if I am not happy with the design

I just need a fully functioning e-commerce website built, I can populate it with the images and content at a later date.

Please bid only if you have read this entire description, and have successfully finished similar projects in the past and are able to provide me with your previous work/portfolio. To make sure you've read this, please mention the word 'penguin' if you send me a message. Personally, I prefer working with individual freelancers rather than development teams, but feel free to convince me otherwise. I'm also very open to giving users with no feedback/reviews an honest opportunity.

I'll keep the bidding open for 7 days, so feel free to ask any questions you may have. I might take a day or two to reply.

Thank you and good luck!

Skills required:

eCommerce, HTML, OSCommerce, Shopping Carts, Website Design