You can set up a blogger blog to look just like a website. There really is no difference if you pick the right template and do a little research to remove sidebars off pages and little things like that. I have a free blogger site with a custom purchased template and a go daddy custom domain attached as well and I feel like it looks as good as any paid stand alone website platform where you can also add a blog. Blogger has some newer simple templates that look really nice and clean and are easy to use.
I have a top menu bar, a separate blog section, multiple pages like a shopping link, gallery of my art, customer photos, interesting varied image sizes on my homepage as well as my mailing list sign up. I use a Nifty subscription (which you can see more about in the tools forum) to make product grids within my blog posts, but you could also use stand alone pages (which are as easy to add as a new blog post) to add your product grids and easily plug your products into your blogger "website" and make it look like a shop-able site.
You can take a look here if you are interested. I use mine more as a hub for my art, videos, and products, but it might give you an idea of what is possible. Any site is going to take some time to add product image and links.
If you mean which Blogger template do I use, I use a custom template I purchased off of Etsy. There are tons of options and different sellers that offer them from different price points and are really easy to install. Just do a search for Blogger templates on Etsy.
If you just want to use one available on Blogger, I suggest one of the "Emporio" templates for a clean minimal look. You will have to google how to add the top menu and remove the sidebars. I used Georgia Lou Studios tutorials, but they shut their site down a couple of years ago so I don't have anyone specific to refer you to anymore. I did all of that with the first version of my blog with one of the existing Blogger templates.
As far as being more economical than a site such as Wix, I made the choice to use blogger because Wix and most sites like that require you to upgrade to the paid monthly version in order to forward a custom domain name and Blogger allows if for free so for me it was more economical. There are probably a lot of limitations with using blogger, but it is what works for me.
If you buy a template off of Etsy the menus are at the top or under your header depending on what template you choose and things are much easier to set up. You will get a nice front page set up, etc. You just might have to look up how to take the side bar off of the pages so they don't look like a blog page or some sellers offer a little bit of help with things like that. You can find them for as little as maybe $7 and up. I think I paid $15 for my template and then did some extra customization.
I don't know that there is any easy way to add products to a website except manually adding the images and description text and then linking them back to Zazzle. The time saved by using the Nifty grid can be well worth it. I don't know about the cost of other sites because I haven't looked into them in a couple of years.
You can also use Nifty for free, but just know that half the products you share using it will have your referral ID and the other half with have his referral ID. Referrals are kind of hard to catch anyway so its not a bad way to start learning the tool.
@sheindesignsI wasn't aware, but I think it is because the candy tins are out of stock so they don't come up in the marketplace. I may have to hide that post until they come back in stock.
Looks great!
