Uploading Data to Publisher

[Shail]

Hi,

I'm building a website for e-commerce and want to upload my inventory from
excel onto the website im developing. How do I go about doing this Ive never
build a website, so im completly lost! HELP!

 

[Spike]

Shail

One method is to copy the spread sheet and paste it on to a publisher page.
It will look like a table.

Spike

 

[Shail]

Thanks spike! but posting the inventory as a table wont let me display the
picture and add the products to a shopping cart will it?

 

[Spike]

Shail

I am not familiar with shopping cart software, maybe someone will chime in
on that.

Spike

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

Depends on which shopping cart you are using.


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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression Web

 

[DavidF]

Publisher is best used for fairly small simple, static sites, not large
dynamic sites. If you have a relatively small fixed number of SKUs that you
can post manually and use PayPal, then Publisher might work for you. But if
you have so many different items in your inventory such that you need a
database to manage them, then perhaps it is best to look for a different
program to build your site. Look to your host for
other server side solutions for ready made eCommerce systems or a dynamic
"content management
system" like Joomla which is PHP and MySQL based (Google other CMS). Perhaps
even Serif WebPlus would be a better choice as it has a built-in ecommerce
solution... Bottom line is that you should probably do some more research
about other alternative ways of building your site now before you invest
much more time in trying to build a large ecommerce site with Publisher and
Excel. Just my two cents worth...

DavidF