THE 10 STEPS TO GETTING YOUR OWN WEBSITE/E-COMMERCE HAPPENING
4/ Software for making website and maintaining it You need an HTML Editor, an FTP Client and several Graphics Programs. Then you will need some CGI software like a shopping cart and forms.
www.tucows.com Heaps Internet Software www.software602.com Office Freeware www.hypermart.net Heaps of Free Advice www.netsetter.com Speed up your connection www.bizland.com Marketing Advice www.shareware.com Software www.jumbo.com Software www.warez.com For the Brave http://home.flash.net/~drj2142/rgb.html color chart http://www.ericharshbarger.com/java/ Java http://www.surf4nix.com/ Free Internet Access
HTML Editor http://freeware.acehtml.com/
CGI http://www.cgi-resources.com/ http://www.cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/ http://www.webresource.net/cgi/resources/ http://desktoppublishing.com/cgi.html
Shopping Cart http://www.careyinternet.com http://www.agoracgi.com
Page Counter http://www.addfreestats.com/ http://www.beseen.com/
Graphics www.gograph.com www.ulead.com http://www.clipart.com/rank1.html
Other Sites www.mycomputer.com/ www.yippee.net
5/ Training eastcoast.hypermart.net utor www.pagetutor.com www.blackboard.com/courses/pcbasic101/ http://www.speakeasy.org/~cgires/ http://www.webresource.net/cgi/resources/ http://www.webreference.com/ http://desktoppublishing.com/cgi.html
There is a heap of online info for how to do the websites, CGI etc. Not only www sites but newsgroups and lists.
6/ Information www.guru.com www.google.com www.ask.com
We use Google search engine and ask all the time to find stuff or answers to problems - of all the search engines very comprehensive info... and handy!
NOTE: Things are changing very fast, daily, on the WWW with many free resources no longer free. The policies of some of the web sites mentioned in this article may have changed since this article was written.
The final part (Part Three) of this series will follow.
I hope this article may be helpful to you getting started in e-commerce with a minimal budget.
About the author: Bill Rosoman has been involved with computers for over 20 years (and even e-mail for most of them - since 1985!). He is close friend and the "technical associate" of author, Craig Lock. He developed Craig's original and internationally known online creative course: http://www.nzenterprise.com/writer/creative.html.