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A small story about web-site development

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:00 pm
by sudip
Hello Friends,

Yesterday I rejected an order for a small web site development. The person, who took the order for me told the the client - this would be developed with Dreamweaver, MS SQL Server, ASP ... I immediately canceled the order ;) (after telling the marketing friend, cost of development would be much higher by using these tools legally)

I last developed web site 11 years back! It was an e-commerce site. The shopping cart and other parts were developed using Java Script calling CGI-Perl codes and small dose of Java. Data was stored in text files. And, the development team has only one member - my employer took only one person like - Jack of all trades! ;)

Our main product was book. I have to maintain a large table along with authors, rates etc. So I created a small app with VFP which was used to create html files (with embedded JavaScript codes) from the dbf files. Very simple and basic, but it worked ... ;) (all the codes were lost, when I left the job)

Today, things have been changed. If I want to create a similar web site today what should I need? I have very small experience about modern web site development. If I am not wrong I shall use HMGScript, PHP, MySQL etc.

Can anyone tell me more about this?

Thanks in advance :)

Re: A small story about web-site development

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:29 pm
by Rathinagiri
Why can't you try Joomla or Drupal?

Apart from this, there are n number of open source CMS and e-Commerce sites available. We have to choose according to our requirements. That's all. :)

Re: A small story about web-site development

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:55 pm
by sudip
Thanks a lot friend :)

Now, have to brush-up my knowledge and need to learn more apart from HMG projects :)

Re: A small story about web-site development

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:50 pm
by apais
Today is by far more expensive developing Web Apps than desktop ones due to the need to master 3 or 4 languajes to achieve a single task (total nonsense).
Other than that html, javascript and cgi are the same since years now.
So using harbour for the cgi part isn“t a bad idea at all.
The most difficult part for us developpers, is the aesthetics requirementents of Graphic Design.

Re: A small story about web-site development

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:37 am
by danielmaximiliano
Look here Sudip
Maybe! Free
http://www.jesusda.com/docs/linuxwebdes ... dulo2.html
Saludos
DaNiElMaXiMiLiAnO

Re: A small story about web-site development

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:30 am
by sudip
Hello All,

Thank you for your support :) Daliel, I went through the site. It's very good. :)

I need a total restart for web development. ;)

I am now looking for a simple start-up tutorial for that. Moreover, I want to use my basic knowledge of HMG in this field. :)

Re: A small story about web-site development

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 4:23 am
by swapan
sudip wrote:Hello All,

Thank you for your support :) Daliel, I went through the site. It's very good. :)

I need a total restart for web development. ;)

I am now looking for a simple start-up tutorial for that. Moreover, I want to use my basic knowledge of HMG in this field. :)
Excellent initiative Sudip! Please share your valuable experience as you proceed further. It will help us who also wants a first hand experience on website development with little knowledge about other platforms then our xbase and Harbour/xHarbour and HMG.

How can we use HMG here will be an interesting thing.....

[Rathi has perhaps used Joomla for his site...]