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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 06/01/06 16:58
Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>> David Segall wrote:
>>
>>> If "deal with orders and payments" means a shopping cart as in most
>>> commercial web sites you _cannot_ write this yourself by October.
>> Elaborate on the source of this statement please.
>
> I could offer a logical proof of this, but I find the empirical
> evidence more convincing. People who are asking "Should I use
> Dreamweaver to program my HTML?" do not have a good success rate at
> delivering shopping carts a mere 4 months later. Some of them do
> achieve it, but the results are rarely good, or secure.
>
> No-one should be writing shopping carts these days. Most people,
> including most web developers, just aren't skilled enough to do it.
> Even if you were, you'd be too valuable to waste your time on
> re-inventing such a task. It isn't '99 any more - there are now
> _plenty_ of off-the-shelf solutions for this, no need to build your
> own.
Oh, OP cannot by October, I misread the remark as it *shall be verboten
by October*. Agree, not for a novice and if done improperly is a serious
security risk for both vendor and customer...
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Take care,
Jonathan
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