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Step 1. Pick a Product<\/strong><\/h3>

My fictitious e-commerce site will specialize in selling handmade forged goods, such as chisels, punches, camping axes, hammers, as well as decorative pieces like coat hangers and fire pokers with neat twists and decorative flourishes. <\/p>

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Step 2. Decide on Payment Methods<\/strong><\/h3>

In my research for this project, I settled on Stripe<\/a> for a payment gateway. However, I learned that it may be somewhat difficult to set up, so if I run into trouble I will use PayPal<\/a>. Regardless, I chose stripe because I like how flexible it is with its plethora of features as well as its fees being cheaper than PayPal’s. <\/p>

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Step 3. Decide on Shipping Methods and Costs<\/strong><\/h3>

I would choose to use USPS ground for deliveries because it seems they would charge a little less than UPS for the kinds of goods I would need shipped. And given my forge is fairly near to the USPS post office in Grand Marais, MN I think it’d be convenient to drop the goods off there before they go across country. <\/p>

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Step 4. Decide on how you would like to setup your website<\/strong><\/h3>
A. <\/strong>Find an ecommerce site that sells your proposed product (or a product similar) and review their setup. Take Screenshots for your report<\/h5>

For this step I looked at several sites including Etsy.com<\/a>, Condor Tool & Knife<\/a>, CRKT<\/a>, and finally Brent Bailey Forge<\/a>. The following are screenshots of Brent Bailey’s website, which I think is much more comparable to something I’d be able to do in this class. <\/p>

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A product page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Store cart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Payment page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Storefront<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>

*Photos above are from https:\/\/www.brentbaileyforge.com<\/a><\/p>

I like how simple Brent’s site is. I also like his color scheme of black, orange, and white. He’s hardly the first to use these colors, but I like the meaning behind them nonetheless. Black reminds me of the firescale that forms as you heat steel. The orange reminds me of a piece at working temperature, and the white reminds me of the blinding color a properly operated coal forge should be. I also like the how he utilizes the categories on the left, so you can find just what you’re looking for, without wasting time. One criticism I have, however, is that many of the products don’t have adequate descriptions. For example, the splitting maul on the top row doesn’t have information about what kind of steel the head is made out of or what kind of wood the handle is made from. <\/p>

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B.<\/strong> Prospective E-Commerce Site Q&A<\/h4>