The short answer is: “Yes, absolutely!” As you can find out for yourself if you take an exciting, new class I am offering, Creating Online Stores with WordPress: An Intensive 1/2-Day Workshop.
But I’m jumping ahead in the story….
For many of you, the idea of creating an online store for your business or charita
ble organization’s website – and doing it yourself – seems a bit far-fetched. You may very well think it would be too time-consuming to learn everything you would need to know to even get started, no less to get the thing up and running. And even if you could manage to get something out there, you may think it wouldn’t be a high quality shopping experience for your customers. It might not look very good or integrate well with the rest of your site, or be too limited in it’s functionality, or too convoluted and unfriendly for customers to use, or….well, you name it – it just wouldn’t work! Right?
No. Wrong, wrong, wrong on all counts! Some extremely powerful tools have evolved to the point where adding professional-looking, high performance e-Commerce capabilities to your site – without having to fork over big bucks to someone with a Master’s in Computer Science – is well within your grasp. And it won’t take you years – or even weeks – to do it. You can build a robust storefront that integrates seamlessly with your WordPress website in a matter of a few hours. Yes, I said hours.
Oh, and did I mention that these very sophisticated development tools are free? Yes, they’re free. And anyone with a understanding of WordPress fundamentals can readily learn how to use them. It’s there for the taking.
If it sounds like I’m excited about the opportunity to share more information about these tools and show you how to use them, I definitely am! I’m hoping you are excited, too, and will consider participating in this new, high-value class.
Again, the name of the class is Creating Online Stores with WordPress: An Intensive 1/2-Day Workshop, and the first time it will be offered is on Saturday morning March 17th. Just follow that link to learn more details and to register for the class. (Registration is through the Amherst Recreation Department website). If you have any questions about the class, feel free to leave a comment below or to contact me via e-mail.
Hope to see you on the 17th! No green beer provided, but maybe some green tea. ;0)
All the best,
Jonathan