How to create a commercial web site?
November 13, 2009 - 8:44 am
I used to be a computer programmer and have worked on web sites but have never designed and build a complete site. I have a client who wants an e-commerce site. It will have the ability for people to order things and pay with a credit card and use PayPal probably and generate emails to their warehouse, etc. Where do I start? Where can I get software to help create the site and do the credit card stuff and all that? Where do I go to get it hosted? Thanks for any tips.
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November 13th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Any site like http://www.godaddy.com http://www.5u.com can sell a domain for you so start with getting space for it. I would recommend getting Adobe Dreamweaver to design the website unless you want to code the entire website with notepad, which i think is more effort than it’s worth. As for the credit card stuff i think it would be a regular submit box that would email you the results. they have them in dreamweaver. But i think bigger companies create mysql databases and have them sent to it.Honestly i would recommend having someone else do it, and have you run it. It sounds like you don’t know a whole lot about web design, no offense, and thats a big project in the first place.
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November 13th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
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November 13th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Dear friend, you need a web hosting service which supports online payments like, Master Card, Visa & Pay Pal. It is very important that your service to be uptime. It means that you can access your account whenever you want to update your web pages, and your customers can view your website whenever they insert your website address. If your hosting service is not uptime it is a real hell!
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November 13th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
you can try using OS Commerce. It’s free, and you don’t have to be an experienced programmer to customize it. It is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution.
For the host, I suggest you go for My Webbie Hosting’s plans. OS commerce is already preinstalled, which means you only have to activate it through your control panel (no need to install it manually). The cheapest plan is worth $3.95/month which includes a FREE domain name, 1.5 G disk space, 150 G monthly transfer, 50 email accounts, etc.
I also posted below the link to their control panel demo in case you want to have a try.
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osCommerce
http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/oscommerce
My Webbie Hosting
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My Webbie Hosting’s Control Panel Demo:
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