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From the article on the SuN home page this May.
I was impressed with this article, particularly in two major points.
The one is about being able to personally (or through a developer
you've chosen) customize storefront software solutions.
The other was the highlighted information about looking for a shopping
cart. I know that it wasn't until I joined the SuN community that I
began to really understand that a shopping cart isn't the same thing as
a Web site.
We've found repeatedly, working on a shoestring budget, that although
lots of places promise easy templates, all you need, 1-stop-shop, and
so forth, they rarely work that way. Yes, if you yourself are a
technophile, know a whole lot about Web languages, including things
like Ruby and Javascript, fine.
But what if you don't know all that stuff? What if you're simply trying
to make and sell a product? What if your expectation of starting a
business was to put some product descriptions and names on a web page,
sit back and collect the money?
There's not a whole lot that's easy to understand, and focused into 8
steps or thereabouts, that explains the most important thing: How do I
get paid?
We need more articles like this, I think. Particularly with a beginning
business person in mind, who doesn't know all that much about Web this,
electronic that, database something.
Biggest gripe with bad shopping carts: Not knowing the shipping costs
until almost at the very end of the order process. Then, when the
shipping is SO high, having to abandon the entire thing. What a total
waste of time!
Craig Landes
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Defining the undefinable. "There are 10 kinds of people in the world---those who understand binary numbers and those who don't." - Unknown
International Society of Curmudgeons
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