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eCommerce for 1 product shop

I'm new to web design and what led me to get into it was a product I developed.  About 9 months ago, I signed on with a site builder and developed my site.  I didn't like their shopping cart, so I hacked away at ZenCart (per someone's recommendation) and I moved my existing pages over to GoDaddy with links to my ZenCart.  I didn't use ez-pages.  It works ok, but definitely overkill for 1 product.

Now, I've started learning CSS & HTML and I've developed a couple sites (MunKy has helped me a ton with www.egeamedical.com).  I'd like to clean up my AWFUL, YUCKY, error infected code, and need advice.   Do I stay with ZenCart or move to another shopping cart?   Someone recommended Mals eCommerce, but they only have the option for 5 discount codes from what I can tell.

I'm also using PayPal Pro, if that plays into this at all.  I'm willing to look into other merchant accounts..

Any advice?   I want to be prepared for a client I have coming along soon and they'll need the same setup as me.

Ok, I'm embarrassed to even share my site (from the code side), but I guess I have to - www.flippee.com.

Thanks so much!
Ree

Thanks!   I just looked quickly at the LiveTest and I REALLY like the layout.  Very clean.   I'll dig alittle deeper today!

OMG- I think I need to pull an all-nighter tonight!    I LOVE what I see so far.  Not enough hours in the day..

You should be fine to just install it on the same hosting if they accept multiple domains on one account. If however you are still going to use flippee.com then just build the site in a folder on flippee.com/newsite/ with its own database and keep all the pages with the same names, and then swap the site over to flippee.com/ when its ready. Any pages that have changed name you should 301 redirect the zencart urls to the ubercart urls in your .htaccess file. That way you'll keep any page rank that you've accumulated so far.

So do I create a template for Drupal and allow my clients to change the content?  Sorry, probably a dumb question, but I want to make sure I got this right.

Is it really difficult to create a template?

I installed Drupal b/c GoDaddy had a installation on their site, but it was for Drupal 6.4.  Ubercart only works with 5.x. 

I feel like you put me on another planet with this one!  So much to learn.. I enjoy it, but it's definitely a steep learning curve.   You're sure it's worth it??

WordPress makes for a very nice cart... especially small product lines. Check it out.

~Melanie