Re: FN-FORUM: ball park time frame

date posted 1st November 2003 10:43

hi ron,

depends on the amount of products in the final site - the most amount
of time is producing the images with photoshop or whatever and adding
products to the database... but an average e-commerce site is
*fairly* simple as it will probably use 4-5 templates to generate every
page in the site... you need to figure out a) how many products and
b) how many 'unique' pages you will have (i.e. home page, catalog
listing, detail screen then maybe two different payment screens?)

the database will then use these templates to generate every page on
the site...

i have to ask why you are using ASP - a PHP/MySQL solution would
probably work nicer, and you can use some available software like
Actinic Catalog or oscommerce to automate a lot of the tricky stuff for
you...

i just had to figure out an e-commerce package for someone, and figure
i'd need 1-2 weeks to design and build, then maybe another week to
input all the products into the database...

hth
luke


On 1 Nov 2003, at 05:07, Ron Neiger wrote:

> What I am wondering is on average, and I know that every job will vary
> greatly, will it take to create an e-commerce web site.
> I'm just looking for some ball park numbers to help me figure a price
> schedule.
> What i am thinking is say a twenty page site with a shopping cart,
> access database, some graphic design, and incorporating some ASP, CSS
> and JavaScript.
> All i'm looking for a starting point. A week? Two weeks? Two days? A
> year? Five min. ?
>
> My problem is a lack of full time experience what jobs I have done in
> the past have been fit into what ever spare time I could muster. I
> really can' t use my past experience as an example.
>
> Thank for your help,
> Ron Neiger