Originally Posted by
ultrafunkula 
A custom built flash solution will certainly cost more than 100 bucks, but from what I gather from the original thread, he's looking for a simple and cheap solution to get his stuff going.
Not my custom built solution or yours. 
Dave
He didn't actually mention money, but rather outlined his requirements, which are not "simple" (he mentioned Beatport and Junodownload)
My point was that a Flash solution is not good, for the simple reason that it will never be indexed by search engines. Beatport has a huge marketing budget to make up for this fundamental flaw.
Our ecommerce engine, once released will be fully GPL and *free of charge*. There are others already available that are suitable ( we previously developed with osCommerce, eg.
http://holyculturedownload.com ). As for search engine indexing (which is vital), the
results speak for themsevles.
So, my recommendation is to find a suitable ecommerce engine and adapt it to suit - this is both the best and cheapest way. While its true that there are a few "cheap" out of the box solutions, they are by no means suitable for the very competitive music industry. As with any business, its necessary to invest in order to gain decent returns, whether that be time in doing it yourself or to pay a developer.
Matti Ressler
Suomedia
Last edited by Suomedia : May 4th, 2008 at 2:37 pm.
