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Build a POS Store: Update

Monday, 19 November 2007 · Print Post 11 Comments

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Build a Niche Store was not very user friendly and their forums suck. It seemed more people have problems than making money with this script. Well I finally have it up and running and it didn’t come out to what I wanted, as it is still in a testing learning phase for me. This script is really user friendly for those that want it up and running in like 10 minutes. But me I always want to be different and I try to change a lot of things with the layout and design.

Browsing multiple BANS store, most of the layouts are the same, BLAH! I always want to stick out and do something no one does. So I went a head and studied the BANS default CSS and found it to be fairly straight to the point. I then took the source of the default template and studied that as well, making sure I know where the information is going to be located.

After sometime I went and built my alpha store. It was not to my liking but it was just a test to see how powerful it really is and simple. Simple for the experience web guy, not at all. Simple for a noob, very. Here is the snapshot of my first Alpha Build a Niche Store.

Not to shabby right? I think it is alright, not really up to my standards, but hey it is in it’s Alpha stages.

The downside to this script is the help in forums is very low, there is not much interaction just complainers, and I was one of them, since it was not where I wanted this store to be.

Several things I did which may help others.

If installed in a sub directory, update your HTACCESS!
Download an older version of the install.php, can be found in the forums. The one that came with the updated version did not do anything at all.
Create Pages and Stores First – do not automatically add a category
Study the CSS file
Study a simple layout

There are only 2 editable field you can change, header.php and footer.php – its very simple. If you know how to read HTML, this is cake then. You do not even need to use the Advertise section of BANS because if you just enter your Adsense code within header.php or footer.php then you are good to go. Here is a small video recap of POS store I mean BANS.

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Jake said:

I didn’t know you were into this kind of store. I would like to talk to you more about them. I want to set up a few and see what I can do. Now with Shoe pumping them there will be many more on the web, but I still am interested.

- 27 November 2007 at 9:02 pm

Bill said:

bans is great for beginners

- 28 November 2007 at 12:57 pm

Build Some Traffic for Your Build a Niche Store - ShoeMoney® said:

[...] layout, I did not want to create a BANS look a like at all. So documented my BANS creation, I have part 1 and part 2 of my ‘building of the BANS’ video [...]

- 29 November 2007 at 12:35 pm

Ljancho said:

Every ready made website package like this one and also wordpress, phpnuke or others have to be edited slightly before adding it to the search engines. That’s what I think.

- 30 November 2007 at 2:55 am

iLan said:

Hello, have you tried Zlio.com??
BANS is with eBay products, Zlio.com is with 110 merchants (apple, buy, zappos, â€¦). I tried both, and believe me you make more money with Zlio, and the software is neat!!
Look at my ZlioShop: http://iloveny.zlio.com. You have different skins to customize your shop, can pick products from 7M items, and Zlio is providing you a lot of ways to promote your storeâ€¦ I made my choice!

- 30 November 2007 at 12:37 pm

Karen said:

I understand Ian! I had the same problem with Blogger (lol), however, I used my programming skills to modify what I could. Thanks for sharing. I am breaking away from Blogger. It is good to know all of the tricks of the trade.

Oh, and your never too old.

- 2 December 2007 at 1:40 am

Jorge Gurza said:

Try ez Affiliate Website Builder which is a lot easier to implement into your 3 column templates. All you have to do is put the php include tags where ever you want them in your template.
http://www.ezaffiliatewebsitebuilder.com

- 28 December 2007 at 5:05 am

PuReWebDev said:

Sorry you had a bad experience with BANS. I’ve heard a few other complaints about it. Might want to try taking a look at E-commerce For Everyone , it works similarly, but its a hosted e-commerce application that works exclusively with Amazon. Since you already work with eBay, this might be interesting for you. Thanks for the post about BANS though. Gonna have to go through some of your other posts. I see shoemoney was linking to your article as well.

thanks,
PuReWebDev

- 10 October 2008 at 3:26 pm

Traffic for Your Build a Niche Store : I LUV BRAZIL said:

[...] layout, I did not want to create a BANS look a like at all. So documented my BANS creation, I have part 1 and part 2 of my ‘building of the BANS’ video [...]

- 10 October 2008 at 4:10 pm

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