It didn't take long to get the smashing
glass webshop site together and able to take credit card payments online
with paypal and drupal
- a small retailers match made in heaven. This site runs on Drupal 4.7 which
is real sweet, totally intuitive with lots of help it is a beautiful system.

Here is a webshop howto tutorial then:

Get a webserver with a webhost.

It must run PHP and a database - I used MySQL.
I was recommended to get a LAMP server - that acronym is LINUX, Apache, MySQL, PHP.

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props to Peter Drupal Blog for the quick howto and link.

How to bulk upload images, thus products to a drupal e-commerce web shop.

I'm going to try this this.

A few folks have asked me how this whole web shop thingy is put together and what do I mean by free software and open source.

My servers run on GNU / Linux. A free operating system (all computer need on to operate).
I use Apache to serve the HTML and multimedia, the content is stored in a database - currently I am using MySQL, and the webscripting language PHP which preprocesses the request for a web page, queries the database and using a template make the web page you are looking at now.

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Here is a link to our shop on google maps
Directions to our gigha shop.

I just made the layout glassy. Its not really made of glass though 8-). It is CSS gleaned from the downloadable tutorial on Eric Meyer's Excellent Site on the subject of CSS Web-Design zen.

More Specifically it is a fixed width non tiling background, er...thingy as in :

background-image: url(beach.jpg);
background-position: 0 0;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;

and

background-image: url(beachb.jpg);