THE 10 STEPS TO GETTING YOUR OWN WEBSITE/E-COMMERCE HAPPENING (PART TWO)

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/tutor 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.

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.

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