Any way to make your own website template?

What is the cheapest way to take orders on a website? And what is the best way to make the website?

• I sell 1 thing ultimately with a variety of different options. A = main thing Ac = 6 color options for main thing Ap = a custom way to personalize the main thing Av = 1 thing that go inside the main thing that's offered in 5 versions That's it. Where is the best place to sell my product? Do I make a wordpress type of site and link the shop to something like etsy, shopify, storenvy, etc... ? Or do I not sell enough things to make it worth having a storefront? Should I take orders via paypal? If you were me and needed to sell the product what would be the most cost effective way to do it? I don't want to always get slammed with fee after fee after fee when I make a sell. But I don't know if I sell enough things to make it worth any other way. I need some professional help! thanks

• Answer:

  The short answer is PayPal. There are no monthly fees - you only pay about 3% when you actually sell something. You can set up a web site using Wordpress, get a free theme and use a free e-commerce plugin like Shopify to sell your product. Your only could would be the annual fee for a domain name and the monthly fee for web hosting (about $10 and $4, respectively) A website is only as good as your marketing plan. No one is going to see your website if you do not have a plan to drive traffic to the site. Spend your time on this first!