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Wavie Haller
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03-26-2007 20:40
hey...wondering where you could get website designed that ppl can buy ur sl products and have them delivered to them in game....like a one seller slexchange type thing?
Jesseaitui Petion
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03-26-2007 21:25
I`m guessing that would cost a lot of money.

I`d get a professional RL business to do it....Probably go to a reputable freelance bidding board and post the request.
SuezanneC Baskerville
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03-26-2007 22:38
You can see all the items offered by a particular seller at slexchange, for a random example, http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&MerchantID=21024 shows one person's offerings.

SLBoutique has a similar function, here's one: http://www.slboutique.com/index.php?p=buy&user_avatar_id=36586&nh=1

This might suit some people's desires for a marketing page just for themselves.

I'd enjoy reading a "how to" on how these sites work.
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Natalie Oe
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04-01-2007 08:22
From: Wavie Haller
hey...wondering where you could get website designed that ppl can buy ur sl products and have them delivered to them in game....like a one seller slexchange type thing?


I've seen this done before (can't remember who's site tho)

I'm sorry I know my comment is of no help to you, But if you ever find anyone to do it could you please let me know.

Thanks

Nat
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Kira Cuddihy
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04-01-2007 09:06
A website is easy to build, simply buy yourself a copy of Frontpage and go from there. I did. If I can build a website, anyone can. You can find Frontpage at Amazon.com. You might also want to buy the book too on how to use it. The information they give you isn't very helpful.

How you would get your product in world you would have to ask help. Haven't done that before. Must just be some kind of a link that throws it at you.
Sys Slade
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04-01-2007 13:21
Nope, live help will probably not even respond if you ask them about this.

To sell the product and deliver it in world you need to be able to script in both LSL and a web language (php, perl etc), as well as understanding of some basic security concepts (who wants to buy from someone without security?), XMLRPC or email handling in the web language you choose, data storage (through database or other means) and no doubt a few other things I've missed.
This is not something you can accomplish with a copy of frontpage.

I might consider doing something like this in the future, but I have a lot of other projects going outside of SL. I would also most likely not take on the design side because I am not a designer. I occasionally do create some great looking sites, but it's not something I can guarantee on every job.

BTW, MS products (like frontpage) are not known for producing standards compliant, or even nice looking output. The only browser frontpage is designed to work for is IE, and even that is not certain. You'd be much better getting a copy of dreamweaver and checking w3c.org for the complete HTML standards.
Kira Cuddihy
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04-02-2007 00:12
is that the same as a shopping cart?
FD Spark
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04-02-2007 00:30
Well if you had site and your own land, or they did and want to shop via a hud in game there is always Megamart which is similar to Slexchange except its inworld.
Natalie Oe
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04-02-2007 06:12
I don't know about the orginal poster, However I already have a website, I want to be able to place my products on it and when people view it gives them the option to buy it straight from the site and have it delivered in world (like slexchange)

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Sys Slade
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04-02-2007 07:06
Does your existing site have user registrations natalie?
Like SLEX, you would have to tie their SL name to their account, and set up an in world terminal to both receive payments and deliver the items.
If you are planning on accepting paypal payments instead of L$, you can skip the payment acceptance on the terminals, but would need paypal IPC set up to handle payment notifications.

Going the L$ route, you might be better off with a vendor and a SLURL link on your site. If somebody has to visit your terminal, verify their site account with their SL account, pay it money, jump to the website and hit the order button and then wait for delivery, it's a lot of hoops to go through to get one item.
If however you have a lot of items on your site or a high traffic site, and it's easier to browse the items off world, there's a benefit to it.

If you want real US$ payments, the benefit is cutting out another layer of commision (the lindex), as well as being able to sell to those who don't wish to have their payment info on file with LL. However, paypal will hold you more accountable for fraudulent payments than the lindex. They have been known to freeze accounts for months on end over 1 transaction.

@Kira: Dreamweaver is a package for creating HTML, like frontpage. It has better support for standards though. W3C is the WWW consortium, they are responsible for the specifications of HTML, XML and a few other formats.

Shopping carts are not written in HTML, and rarely in javascript these days (although I have built JS carts). Most commonly, they are code that runs on the web server to produce HTML, whereas plain HTML is a document format that is simply sent to the browser without any involvement from the server.
Kidd Krasner
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04-02-2007 09:36
From: Kira Cuddihy
A website is easy to build, simply buy yourself a copy of Frontpage and go from there. I did. If I can build a website, anyone can. You can find Frontpage at Amazon.com. You might also want to buy the book too on how to use it. The information they give you isn't very helpful.

How you would get your product in world you would have to ask help. Haven't done that before. Must just be some kind of a link that throws it at you.

Frontpage is fine for simple web sites, but I wouldn't use it for any sort of small-scale commercial web sites.

One reason is that most hosting services with Frontpage support offer it on UNIX systems, via the Frontpage server extensions. Thus all the stuff built into frontpage for database access, etc., which is largely designed to work with Microsoft SQL Server and ASP, won't work as well on a UNIX system, if at all. Hosting sevices that provide Microsoft-native hosts are fewer in number, and often more expensive.

There are plenty of alternatives for platform-independent or Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) based systems. Perhaps a bit more of a learning curve if you're already used to Microsoft Office, but better, cheaper support (often free), and usually more power and moer choices.