Selling products online — how hard can it be? After all, quite nearly literally EVERYONE ON EARTH is doing it and there are approximately 438 kajillion shopping carts out there to use. But here’s the problem with abundance; It’s confusing! So many options makes finding exactly the right solution for you complex at best. Googling “online ecommerce solutions” will get you 4,610,00 results – varying in cost and complexity from free to hundreds of dollars per month. So where do you start?
Our favorite solution has the following adjectives: …

So you want a website, you want it fast, and you want to be able to update the content yourself. However, like most start-ups, artists or non-profits, you don’t have a lot of money to invest up-front. It’s a common problem, but thankfully, it’s also an easily resolvable one!

As a small business start-up, an activist, artist or non-profit, here is a phrase that should tickle your ears like the collective snuffling of ten thousand happy puppies: Open Source.

Why does Open Source make such a joyful noise? Because Open Source means FREE. And, not only does Open Source mean free, but it also means that any open source project has likely become part of a braintrust made up of multiple bright and open minds who contribute their talents jointly for a greater good (that good being the product they are making available for public use.)