Appologies if this is in the wrong place. Am looking to finally get my photography out there and try and make some money from it, So i need a proper online shop with checkouts and such. I did train in website building and multimedia at college but it was on a very basic level, so am seeking proper looking website from some software.

trouble is most of it is for Windows OS and Im a Mac boy so if anyone out there knows of any reasonably priced Ecommerce stuff for Mac plzplz let us know. Many thanks.

I see you're based in Worcester - if you're serious about this and willing to spend some decent money to get a very good looking and professional photography web site out there then give Hughes Media (http://www.hughesmedia.co.uk) a ring. To give you some idea the very cheapest web sites they do start at £2500 - so it is serious money but you get a serious product matching the likes of Fly 53 store Gundog Training Equipment - Sporting Saint and Catering Equipment Online - all of which have been produced in the last couple of years.

Alternatively if you're looking to work on a budget, look at my thread in 'Members Services' and see if you're interested...

http://briskoda.net/members-services/web-development-worldwide/123578/

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Also - most if not all e-commerce systems that I have been involved with are installed on a web server (which is typically linux or windows based) and you then manage/administrate it through a web browser, which can be installed on pretty much any platform you like. So worrying about e-commerce systems targeted at macs/pcs is the wrong route to be going down.

There is a major free e-commerce piece of software called 'oscommerce' (google it) - you would need to purchase web hosting and probably pay someone to initially set the site up for you. But I think that you would need some kind of bespoke solution to prevent people from just copying the photos from the web site and printing them themselves .

As Ed says, your OS is not important, as a web shop will be running on a hosted server somewhere so all you need is web and email access- even a Mac can do that .

A quick search in google throws up some possibles:

online shop

As far as photo theft is concerned, you probably want to watermark them to stop that.