Posted by verity on 06/01/06 20:22

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.
>
> To the OP, find some hosting with a decent bundled cart. Build around
> and customise that, don't start from scratch. Expect to pay real money
> to a real web developer to achieve this (You wouldn't do your own
> shopfitting, would you?). Look for recommendations from here or a.w.w.
> for both.

I get your drift and appreciate your advice, I'll certainly reconsider
it.
I was a programmer years ago & a Systems Analyst, I volunteered to make
a non-commercial site for a voluntary agency usong Frontpage & it
suited their needs. There is more to this than me wanting to start
another business, I want to be able to do it (for fun?) & I've had bad
reports of what people who have paid for a site, have actually
received.

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