About two years ago, I had a go at commercial web site design. I
put a medium-sized ad in a London classified ad paper. Nothing
fancy: "Web designer seeks work ..." etc. This was expensive, about
£500 for a month's run.
Laptop Battery Got a few replies. Lesson number one: advertise where clients of
the calibre you want will see it. The clients I got thought £300
was a lot for a web site. They didn't want to pay web hosting. They
wanted a lot of bang for their buck. 'Mission creep' was a term I
grew to know and loathe.
1. An Ethernet connection running at 100Mbps. So called because it is 10 times faster than the old 10Mbps standard. However, fast Ethernet is no longer the fastest form of Ethernet...... 2. A company providing disk space on a server to host a web page, fast connections between the server and the internet (for fast page download times), and possibly also web design and maintenance service.....
Thinkpad This set me thinking: how could I give these people all they
could ever want, but not spend a lot of time and
money? Lately, I realised
how.
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Microsoft So how can you get a full featured site up in a day? Easy
(ish!).
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Laptop Computers Mambo Content Management System
http://www.mamboserver.com
speed USB 2.0 port, enabling you to connect to virtually any computer or laptop for fast and easy music transfers (also backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ports).
Laptop Computer I wish I'd found this software a couple of years ago. It's
freeware. The default set-up allows people without web design
skills to update the site. It has a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What
You Get) option. This adds HTMLArea code to text input form fields.
Each HTML code input box becomes a mini HTML editor.
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Desktop Computer If you can use Microsoft Word, you can add formatted HTML code
to the site.
Notebooks To get it running you need to know how to install MySQL
databases, or have PHPMyAdmin as part of your web-hosting
package.
Lenovo You can add articles, edit them, send emails to members, and be
contacted by users.
Hard Drive The only criticisms I have of this software
are:
- The admin interface is confusing. It's all there, just finding
and using it is the problem!
- You need to search around template sites to find ones suited to
your site purpose. I wanted simple, clean, business ones. Most of
those available seem to have a fat graphic which covers half the
screen. There are more restrained ones out there.
Travelstar These are minor gripes, compared to the relief of finding what
is essentially a web site in a box. It can be installed in an hour,
once you get familiar with it.
Gateway To add ecommerce to your site:
Laptop Parts Oscommerce
Shopping Cart
http://www.oscommerce.com
Software Again, this is a full-featured, freeware software. You can add
lots of freeware 'plug-ins' to it, to get a professional shopping
cart.
Hard Drives Therein lies the danger. Some of these plug-ins require altering
or overwriting the default cart files. When you try to upgrade the
cart version later, you may 'break' it, by overwriting a plug-in,
thus creating errors.
Electronics The trick here is to only install plug-ins that add files
(rather than overwrite them) or that require minor alterations to
existing files.
Canon What I do is download all the versions of the plug-in type I
need e.g. a WYSIWYG editor. I then choose the one which has the
least files, or which creates a new directory for its files. If it
requires that important files be overwritten, or is complex, I
chuck it.
Desktop Pc Mambo and Oscommerce. Don't try to integrate them! Hyperlink
from one to the other. I've tried integrations of other softwares,
like PhpBB and PhpNuke. Fine, when it works, but when you upgrade
one or the other, arrgh!
Desktop Computers *Keep databases separate*. If one goes skew-whiff, then at least
the other will still work. Same goes for adding chat rooms and the
like. If they're all running off the one database, and that
database becomes corrupted ...
Think Pad It may offend your sense of tidiness for your visitors to have
to sign up twice at your site, but you'll thank me for this sage
advice later. Remember KISS is the basic rule of computing (Keep It
Simple, Stupid!).
Repair About the author: T. O' Donnell is an ecommerce consultant and
curmudgeon living in London, UK. His latest
project is an ebook on conservatories, available at
http://www.tigertom.com/conservatories-uk/index.shtml. T. O'
Donnell freeware may be downloaded at
http://www.ttfreeware.com.
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