I own a furniture store and am looking software for a catalogue
builder for the internet.
One of the main criteria is that it must be possible to build the
catalogue offline on my computer and then be able to upload to the
internet. I don't need a shopping cart because its mainly for just our
customers to look at our range of furniture and get in contact with
us.

The things I'm looking for is 

1)It must be ? Euro compatable.
2)Pages preferably easy to edit and look professional

I've tried a shopping cart and catalogue before but it was server
based and because its not possible to have broadband at work it just
didn't work out.

Ideally I want a program that I can input information and pictures and
then publish to the web.

Hope some one can help

john

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Clarification of Question by furniture_brochure-ga on 06 Sep 2006 01:21 PDT

Thanks for your comments but 

Just to clarfy, I have over 400 products and I need a program that I
load in the product dedatils and images. Then click upload or publish
to web and all details are sent to my website.

Here's a program I use for Real estate www.jadetools.com It lets me
put the information in then it creates the webpages and publish's. Its
the Retail version of this I need.

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Request for Question Clarification by sycophant-ga on 06 Sep 2006 03:48 PDT

Hi, 

I have found two management applications for osCommerce, a popular
online store application, that look promising. They certainly simplify
the product management process, although neither seems to do any
offline management.

You would be able to set up an osCommerce based website through a web
hosting company (some even specialise in it) and then manage it either
directly through the online web-based control panel, or via a
Windows-based management application.

osCommerce is widely used and very powerful software. Some example
osCommerce sites can be found here - these are all real stores, some
with thousands of products:
http://www.rs100.co.uk/
http://www.julianofurniture.com/
http://www.mojointeriors.co.uk/uk/index.php
http://www.gofastperformance.com/

For information on osCommerce, see here:
http://www.oscommerce.com/

The management application are here:
http://www.mariovaldez.net/software/oscpmwin/
http://www.oscommerce-manager.com/

Also, these companies provide specialist osCommerce hosting:
http://www.chainreactionweb.com/info/hosting/oscommerce-hosting.php
http://www.hyperactivehosting.com/index.php

Let me know if this seems suitable for you.

Regards,
Sycophant

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Clarification of Question by furniture_brochure-ga on 06 Sep 2006 05:34 PDT

I'm sorry but the main thing is that the catalogue is workable from my
computer offline because there is only dial-up access and  broadband
is not available.

I've seen perfect catalogue builders but there all online systems and
its not possible to tie up my phone line all day.

What I need is a programme that I can input information and images
then it will create the webpages and then I can upload to my website
via FTP.

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Request for Question Clarification by sycophant-ga on 06 Sep 2006 17:02 PDT

Hi, 

I understand your limited bandwidth concern. However as I see it a
system like this would be preferable even to an offline-based
HTML-only solution. To create a new product with an application like
osCommerce, all that you need to upload is a photo and some
descriptive text. All other elements, as well as site layout and
navigation is automatically generated on the server.

The limitation is that you need a hosting provider that can support
this application. Or something like it.

Regards,
Sycophant

Have you tried MS FrontPage? It has alot of features that make
updating your website very easy. FrontPage adds alot of garbage to
your HTML pages but it will do the job for you.

You can try Google Page Creator: 
http://pages.google.com/

if you have some HTML or pictures, you can upload it, and then link it
from home page.