Turtlereality have built a lot of e-commerce websites over the years. It's a rapidly growing and rapidly changing market, you need to be agile and responsive to keep up with your competitors. Here are some articles relating to e-commerce, selling online and setting up online stores.
The situation with SSL and Drupal 7 is all a bit of a mess, there is a module - Secure Pages - which allows mixed use, but it seems to be riddled with problems and needs core to be patched! So, what is the alternative?
For the last few e-commerce sites that Turtlereality have built we have switched our allegiance from Ubercart to the new kid on the block - Drupal Commerce.
