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FallenAngel95
March 20th, 2001, 21:51
I would really appreciate any help that anyone could give me. Here's the deal......I need to find inexpensive webhosting to get my new business on the web. For my personal site, I'm not really picky.....I don't much mind the pop-ups and things.......but I need my business site to look professional. I don't need a whole lot of space, but I do need to be able to set up some sort of shopping cart, or something, as my business is sales. I know I'm kind of vauge about this, but I am TOTALLY new to setting up a commercial site on the web.......and, as I said, I would REALLY appreciate ANY help with this....
Bruce
March 20th, 2001, 22:30
Check out hypermart.net
FallenAngel95
March 20th, 2001, 22:35
Originally posted by Phrozen
Check out hypermart.net


Thank you!! I am checking out every possibility, and it is becoming a long and greuling process.......It helps to know what other people think.......THANK YOU!!
Coolin
March 20th, 2001, 22:39
What about http://www.f2s.com ?
They place no ads on your site, making it look very professional. I don't think they have any shopping cart software though. They do, however, have CGI/PHP/MySQL. Perhaps there's a script that allows you to make your own shopping cart with those features.
FallenAngel95
March 20th, 2001, 22:57
Originally posted by Coolin
What about http://www.f2s.com ?
They place no ads on your site, making it look very professional. I don't think they have any shopping cart software though. They do, however, have CGI/PHP/MySQL. Perhaps there's a script that allows you to make your own shopping cart with those features.


Please, forgive me for sounding completly stupid, but what is CGI/PHP/MySQL?????
Coolin
March 20th, 2001, 23:17
CGI, PHP, and/or MySQL are things that allow you to do many interactive things with a website. For example, this message board is powered by a combination of PHP and MySQL.
FallenAngel95
March 20th, 2001, 23:22
Originally posted by Coolin
CGI, PHP, and/or MySQL are things that allow you to do many interactive things with a website. For example, this message board is powered by a combination of PHP and MySQL.

So, they are things that will make it easier to interact with my customers??
Coolin
March 20th, 2001, 23:25
Originally posted by FallenAngel95

Originally posted by Coolin
CGI, PHP, and/or MySQL are things that allow you to do many interactive things with a website. For example, this message board is powered by a combination of PHP and MySQL.

So, they are things that will make it easier to interact with my customers?? Yes, these things have the capability to do that.
FallenAngel95
March 20th, 2001, 23:28
Originally posted by Coolin

Originally posted by FallenAngel95

Originally posted by Coolin
CGI, PHP, and/or MySQL are things that allow you to do many interactive things with a website. For example, this message board is powered by a combination of PHP and MySQL.

So, they are things that will make it easier to interact with my customers?? Yes, these things have the capability to do that.

Do you have a business web site?
Coolin
March 20th, 2001, 23:30
No.
Chicken
March 21st, 2001, 08:44
Originally posted by FallenAngel95
Please, forgive me for sounding completly stupid, but what is CGI/PHP/MySQL?????

Not knowing something isn't stupid, (that's why we ask questions). It might help you to have a couple of examples...

Ever been to a site and submitted a poll, or been to a message board (wait, isn't this one?), or written in a guestbook, etc.?

All of these things are written in a particular language (perl or php for example), and this board's pages, for example, are built (on the fly, so to speak), by pulling information, depending on what you click, from the database.

Does that help?
FallenAngel95
March 21st, 2001, 17:57
Originally posted by Chicken

Originally posted by FallenAngel95
Please, forgive me for sounding completly stupid, but what is CGI/PHP/MySQL?????

Not knowing something isn't stupid, (that's why we ask questions). It might help you to have a couple of examples...

Ever been to a site and submitted a poll, or been to a message board (wait, isn't this one?), or written in a guestbook, etc.?

All of these things are written in a particular language (perl or php for example), and this board's pages, for example, are built (on the fly, so to speak), by pulling information, depending on what you click, from the database.

Does that help?


Yes!! Thank you for explaining. I think I'm finally starting to understand this stuff.. I gets quite confusing, though..........Thank you, so much!!