How would I set up this website?

Dealing with money online is very tricky, because you have to be really on top of security. The easiest thing to do would be to use a pre-existing service like PayPal, but PayPal takes a commission as well. You can make the website yourself, but make sure you know how to program well before you do it- again, because of security concerns. You would need to use a server-side language like Python (with something like Django or Turbogears to handle the web stuff), PHP, or Ruby (on Rails), to set up a web program that lets people log in, etc., as well as learning HTML (as nice as Dreamweaver is, it's not as flexible as actually coding the page yourself and you pretty much need to do it yourself for dynamic webpages. You would also need to register a domain name and get somewhere to host the website (GoDaddy and Yahoo will both do this, for a fee)

As you may know a domain name is just a name, not a real website. If you are going to create your website: 1- Buy a domain name. A domain name is a name you want to call your website (ex: www.yahoo.com). To get a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name. 2- Buy a web hosting service to provide your online space and enable you to get your website online at your purchased domain name. To get further information take a look at: http://www.threehosts.com/publish You need a web hosting service which supports online payments like, Master Card, Visa & PayPal. It is very important that your service be uptime. It means that you can access your account whenever you want to update your web pages, and your visitors can view your website whenever they type your website address. If your hosting service is not uptime it is real hell! If you want to start your website I recommend purchase your domain and hosting together. In this way it is possible to get your domain for free. Some hosting services offer this gift today. Take a look at: http://www.threehosts.com/business There you can reach the three reputable companies that are leaders in the E-commerce web hosting industry. They fulfill all your requirements to sell online or do/accept any online payments. By using each of them, everything you need for such a website is provided in one business Hosting Package. Hope this helps.

You can set up your own web site using site studio. You may also need to install shopping cart. There is no need for any legal procedures. You can simply inform the users of your web site by simply mentioning the terms and conditions of using your web site. check http://neond.com They provide free site studio and video tutorials on how to set up your web site. You can install shopping cart (OSCommerce) with one click. If you need help setting up your web site, you can contact me on yahoo messenger. My id is grvictorjohnson Good luck!

This is a big question, and with your lack of knowledge in this area, you should seriously consider talking to a couple of web site developers. Some are good. Some suck. But Good ones have the knowledge to explain what you'll need. If you rely on what you get from here, you're going to get a lot of answers that don't help much or are useless. Talk to an expert.

If you are setting up a website you need a domain host and that is not free. If you have no known link with the art world and no known experience in selling, I would say your endeavor is doomed to failure because people selling genuine works of art are not the type of people to deal with a total unknown