Thank you for the useful pointers, I do appreciatre that. I did check with my supplier and they do provide the data feed in CSV as well as other types. So i may use that Easy Populate for the automation process. sometimes i feel like i don't know enough about the programming or e-commerce part of things.

what kind of "can of worms" am i opening up with building an e-commerce.

i got good boating industry traffic and am sure that i could earn a few bucks with it. Mostly Canadian market, would like to do North America but what about all the taxes and customs.

Isn't there almost you could hire a service that they'll provide you with a working ecommerce or help you to set one up and going.

Here's a good question. how do the good webmasters host and maintain thousands of websites?