Need help transitioning from Yahoo Store

[JBCards]

I bought a dropship site to work on. It is a Yahoo store. For the amount of money I make off of it, I'm not happy with it and the added $40 a month. I've dabbled with OSCommerce before. My problem is, since I am already up and running, how do I change this into an OSCommerce site? And also, how do I switch to another host? And who is a good host? I'm considering hostmonster or cookiehost.

 

I don't want to be down for days while I do this, so can I buy hosting and build with OSC while still running Yahoo? If so, how do I set up the OSC I'm building since the site is in use and I don't want to blocking any current sales? I have a day job as well, so this isn't as simple as taking it down one day and being up that night.

 

Thanks for any help or ideas.

[FIMBLE]

if you want to use the same domain name then you have to loose the one site and work on a new one.

An alternative is to work on osC on localhost then when you move hosts upload it to the new host and install it.

nic

[JBCards]

if you want to use the same domain name then you have to loose the one site and work on a new one.

An alternative is to work on osC on localhost then when you move hosts upload it to the new host and install it.

nic

 

Yes, localhost is what I was looking for. Can someone correct me if I am wrong. Thinking way back to my html days here for this one. I would download OSC to my computer and work on it there making the domain names there. However, it's not connected to the internet so I should be able to see if everything works correctly, loads correctly. Then when ready, I'd move to the new host and upload OSC I have worked on. Then, everything should work online. Does this sound correct?

[FIMBLE]

yes its about right, you can repackage it and install it, or you could upload it and the database then just change the configure.php files.

I would suggest something like XAMPP to use for your localhost server

Nic