Have written a shop on SQL server/ASP and am busy transfering to PHP/MySQL.
Works like a charm and gives you nice control over all the actions - only
"difficult" part would be implementing online payment methods.  But I guess
most of those components are reasonably user-friendly nowaddays.

- Kayjey -


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]Namens Shawn Sass
> Verzonden: dinsdag 27 november 2001 22:00
> Aan: hwg techniques
> Onderwerp: Online shop (was [In-house webmaster])
> 
> 
> First off, let me say thanks for the suggestions/comments on 
> my earlier
> post.  I wasn't sure what I needed.  It sounds like the 
> general consensus is
> that I'd need a site built that could handle the shopping 
> needs but after it
> was up and running, it would only need a little up-keep that wouldn't
> require the expertise of a full time webmaster and it should stay on a
> leased server.  I've been asked numerous times if we "could" 
> bring our site
> in house and I always said yes, BUT . . . with the BUT explaining the
> slow-down and possible halt of our internet and email access 
> as well as
> people being able to access our site.  We just purchased a 
> t-1 line so they
> think we have all this power now.  They don't realize that 
> our current site
> is hosted on a server with 4 t-1s/backbones, etc.
> Now my question changes a little.
> What would someone need to know in order to maintain/update a 
> site with
> secure shopping for about 50 products?  I know there's 
> probably different
> options but what's a pretty standard backend that would be 
> used to create
> the shopping site?  What would be the "standard" languages 
> that the person
> should know in order to keep it going?  I know HTML pretty 
> good, but only
> have a working knowledge of javascript, perl, cgi, css, 
> actionScript and I
> know that I don't know enough to do it so I can't really 
> suggest to my boss
> what someone would need to know, and what they would cost.
> Thanks again.
> (and remember, I was hired as a designer. . .  oh well, it's 
> fun to learn)
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