Building a website/Online Store help

[Maddmike]

What's up brehs?

My wife started a online business that she's been operating through facebook for the past 4 months. It has basically grown faster then we have anticipated, and taking orders through facebook/email with a paypal setup have been confusing our customers, so I have been looking into starting a business website with a online store. I haven't created a website in 10+ years, so I am out of the loop on where should I get started.

I've googled searched for an answer, but all I get is a bunch of "e-z builder" type of sites. I understand that theywould be the easier way but:
1) The prices those websites charge aren't really in our budget right now
2) I want to get back into website creation, and doing it from scratch will benefit me (I figure this would be the perfect chance)

For you guys that have experience in this, I would greatly appreciate some tips and/or places I could go to assist me in getting started.

Thanks in advance

 

[newarkhiphop]

Squarespace.com

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

They make some great Wordpress templates now with responsive designs for mobile and desktop. Wordpress is alone is a monster to handle, but with a template you can go pretty far and have a dope site pretty quick. Just don't go destroying the original code.

 

[L68]

Squarespace.com

 

[Maddmike]

Im at work so I haven't had a chance to check, but does wordpress/squarespace offer domain registration instead of ex: businessname.wordpress.com?

 

[L68]

yes squarespace does..when u pay for their service it includes it

look here.. u need the business one

http://www.squarespace.com/pricing/

 

[newarkhiphop]

Im at work so I haven't had a chance to check, but does wordpress/squarespace offer domain registration instead of ex: businessname.wordpress.com?

Best part about it for you is that there sites include online stores already

 

[Maddmike]

thanks fellas, ima go with the squarespace