Designing your web site

Authoring a Web Site by "Pointing & Clicking"
(a.k.a. hosted or asp--application service provider)

Overview

You can build your web site through your browser. (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, and so on.) If you've ever filled out a form on-line and you can browse your hard drive to find files, you have the necessary skills.

Pros:

• You can build your site quickly and easily.
• No need to buy, install, and learn software on your computer.

Cons:

• Design limited to templates available to you.
• May not show up in the search engines as well as a "home built" web site.

Class Exercise

http://www.bigcommerce.com/

Store URL: http://hammock.mybigcommerce.com/

Control Panel URL: http://hammock.mybigcommerce.com/admin/

Control Panel Username: admin

Control Panel Password: TwsXrJB6qg

Resources

There are many alternatives . Some more are as follows:

is an Ebay company and is highly rated by PC Magazine. www.prostores.com

http://www.zoovy.com/

This is a site that integrates with Ebay on one end and QuickBooks on the other.

or

http://www.bcentral.com
Starting at only US $24.95/mo
(15 minutes)

or

StoreSense

or

http://store.yahoo.com/

or

www.homestead.com
top rated by PC Magazine

or

or

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