Research on website development.

Dear friends,

I am doing a research on website development. I would appreciate it if
you could share your experience on how to build a website for small
business (i.e. a gift shop).

Information such as costs to business owners, time to complete the
website, and a brief description of technical requirements would be
useful for my research.

I am looking forward to receiving your responses. Thank you for your
help.

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Dear friends,

I am doing a research on website development. I would appreciate it if
you could share your experience on how to build a website for small
business (i.e. a gift shop).

Information such as costs to business owners, time to complete the
website, and a brief description of technical requirements would be
useful for my research.

I am looking forward to receiving your responses. Thank you for your
help.

First thing, you need to know what the customer's needs are. Do they want
to do online ordering, no ordering but want to show their products, or just
a small site like a business card?

Once you know that, then you deal with it accordingly.

If they want to do online ordering, they have to have a merchant account,
and some sort of shopping cart and credit card processing has to be done.
They will probably also need a database to keep track of inventory, orders,
etc.

If they just want to show their products, then some sort of database if
probably in order, and give the ability for the store owner to
add/delete/change inventory.

If they want a business card type of site, then HTML and CSS and some
imagea (logo, a few products, etc) are all that is needed.

--
Adrienne Boswell
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Thank you so much for your response.

Adrienne Boswell wrote:

First thing, you need to know what the customer's needs are. Do they want
to do online ordering, no ordering but want to show their products, or just
a small site like a business card?

Once you know that, then you deal with it accordingly.

If they want to do online ordering, they have to have a merchant account,
and some sort of shopping cart and credit card processing has to be done.
They will probably also need a database to keep track of inventory, orders,
etc.

If they just want to show their products, then some sort of database if
probably in order, and give the ability for the store owner to
add/delete/change inventory.

If they want a business card type of site, then HTML and CSS and some
imagea (logo, a few products, etc) are all that is needed.

--
Adrienne Boswell
Please respond to the group so others can share