Posted by David Segall on 06/01/06 06:53

"Zach" <zpf100@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to create a website for my lighting store where customers
>can add products to a cart and pay online. I have created one in HTML
>using a Paypal shopping cart...but it is taking way too long and will
>be too hard to update. There is a potential to list thousands of
>different lights, so I need to be able to update the website easily and
>efficiently. I'm comfortable with programs like Macromedia Dreamweaver,
>Microsoft Access, etc. and programming languages such as HTML and C++.
>What language(s) or program(s) should I use to create this website?
>Could you recommend any good tutorials? How hard do you think it will
>be to pick up the required languages considering my current knowledge?
I suggest you use an existing shopping cart program. A search of the
Open Source projects at <http://sourceforge.net> for shopping cart
yielded 221 hits.

If you really want to write the application yourself then Microsoft's
Visual Web Developer Express Edition
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/> or Sun's Java Studio
Creator
<http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/index.jsp>
will make the job much easier. Both are currently free but will commit
you to choosing an ASP or JSP server respectively.

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