I wanna build a website where people will log in to take a test and also pay for the service by credit card.I am starting from scratch here.I already own a website that I designed through (rhymes with mopaddy) But this seems intricate.Also, maybe some fingers pointed in the right direction would help.Thanks.
2007-02-02 12:00:37 · 7 answers · asked by dmac_electric 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
I've pretty familiar with the type of site you're looking to develop as I did a similar project in the past.
Before you start, you really need to determine your budget. Obviously, this is going to be a database-driven website that allows visitors to the site to sign-up for a member account, and answer questions.
There are some questions you'll need to answer yourself before you can start:
1. Do you want to have the capability to create, edit, and delete the questions and answers that will be visible to your site members? If your answer is yes, you'll need to have a site administration area built that will allow you to use these administrative features.
2. How important is a seemless integration of a shopping cart in your site, and does your budget allow for it? If you're looking to go the inexpensive, but less professional route, I would recommend using paypal. They have several options for collecting transactions.
A second option would be to use ProStores (An Ebay owned Company). They have a pre-built e-commerce tool where you separate your website into a header, body, and footer, and copy the code into the store. You can then login to a secure administration area and add and manage your products, create sales promotions, etc.
A 3rd option (most costly) would be to have a custom shopping cart built that will integrate with a payment gateway processor such as Authorize.net or Linkpoint. What is a payment gateway processor you may ask? Simply put . . . It makes sure the credit card information that is being entered is valid, and moves the money into your merchant account. This is a much more costly solutions as PGP's usually charge a monthly, per transaction, and % of each transaction fee.
An alternate option to a custom shopping cart is to purchase an OS Commerce template, then have someone integrate the payment gateway processor into the backend. OS Commerce is a pretty nice tool and gives you flexibility to manage members, products, page content, sales, shipping, taxes, and more.
Hope this helps! If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to ask!
2007-02-08 09:01:05 · answer #1 · answered by WebWorkers, inc. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest a course. You can get them online. I purchased a course book from chapters. Dreamweaver 8. It teaches it very thoughouly. You will need to purchase the software.
You can also purchase webspace, and on many websites, the basic page is already designed...you just fill in the blanks and pick your templates.
Google it!
2007-02-02 12:08:48 · answer #2 · answered by teckguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get Dreamwever from macromedia,
It is perfect for creating log in screens and everything else.
Hope this helps
2007-02-02 12:04:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you got the money, get a mac, iweb makes it easy to create web pages. (iweb is part of ilife and its included with every mac)
or if u want to stick to the PC get a software that's makes it easy to do, like macromedia dreamweaver.
sorry but all of these options are expensive, unless you torrent dreamweaver (illegal)
2007-02-02 12:08:15 · answer #4 · answered by Kike 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've wrote something like that before. i used PERL. accept payment thru paypal. it's pretty easy.
2007-02-02 12:09:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
U can get help from:
http://www.tutorialized.com/
Best of luck
2007-02-02 18:14:38 · answer #6 · answered by cool _ sim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to www.freewebs.com/jnjgoss to get your own and check mine out while you are there
2007-02-02 12:04:57 · answer #7 · answered by justice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋