I'm building a site selling a tangible product. Widgets, of course. I like the idea of having all 500 widgets in one database so that I can generate static pages (for se indexing) and have the flexibility of generating sub-sites from the same db.
By sub-sites I mean have one site carrying all of my widgets but use the same db to build a companion site that focuses on a sub-set of widgets, carrying and promoting only short-handled widgets.
I'd really appreciate some specific recommendations. The Agora shopping cart comes with my hosting account and *supposedly* will install automatically on my domain so if anyone also has some experience with Agora that kind of feedback will also be appreciated.
Anyway, I'm really at a loss as to how to proceed. A straight "build your site from a db dynamically using static pages" and/or "use this shopping cart". The software doesn't have to be free, this is a business after all, but I also don't have $500.00 to put into this part of the project. I expect I could in the future (or what's the point in selling anything?).
Thanks for any pointers.