Shopping cart

[Latitude]

We operate an moderate size web site at www.folkart.com. For years we've
operated without a shopping cart and currently we're NOT database driven.
Our domain is hosted on a Unix server; we just began using FrontPage
Extension.

All of our web pages are created with FrontPage; we're eager to have access
to FrontPage2003. Recently we began creating some basic forms to process
customer orders, but we're rapidly encountering limitations in our basic
forms.

Are there shopping carts that can be used without using a database? If yes,
please provide URL for further information.

Any suggestions regarding the migration path from a totally manual system to
a database driven web site? We can't afford to hire outside vendors so the
tasks would need to rely of GUI oriented tools requiring only minor
programming. We love FrontPage because it allows us non-technical types to
do some great things.

Thanks, Cecil

 

[FrotnPageForms]

Latitude,

Don't know if you are selling a small number of products,
but I have an example on my site of a Java Order form as
well as a link to the original script. It totals, adds tax
and shipping and will email results if you wish.

http://FrontPageForms.com/java_order.htm

Mike,
http://FrontPageForms.com
Form Tutorials & Form Script Examples

 

[Tom Gahagan]

Are there shopping carts that can be used without using a database? If yes,
please provide URL for further information.

You might check out.... www.hotscripts.com... probably need to look in the
php section since you are on a unix platform.

Any suggestions regarding the migration path from a totally manual system to
a database driven web site? We can't afford to hire outside vendors so the
tasks would need to rely of GUI oriented tools requiring only minor
programming. We love FrontPage because it allows us non-technical types to
do some great things.

If you are going to use a database system to drive your web..... why avoid
it in a shopping cart? Just curious!

Anyway... FP is cool but to do what would like to do is going to require
some degree of learning on your part if you want to avoid outside vendor
help. There are lots of great learning materials around so I guess my
suggestion is to swallow hard, roll up your selaves, and jump in. You can do
it! Tons of resources to draw from so just go for it.... and you will find
that the distance between "non-techical types" and those that have some of
that knowledge and skill..... is not all that great! (truth be told in a lot
of cases the only difference is that they got busy and decided to learn the
stuff on their own)

But.... ssshhhhhhh.... a lot of us don't want you guys to know that!

Best to you......
Tom Gahagan