Quick guide to finding a host for your site
If you are new to starting a web site, this handy little on-line guide, originally created by a consultant for his clients, shows the factors to consider in finding the right web hosting: my.ecorp.net/howtohosting.
So you want to do it yourself?
Here are some of the best reference sources for web site building:-
The Web Design Guide - www.dreamink.com - Tutorials, and all kinds of site building resources. The tutorials tell you what you need, then provide links for the detail.
Php - www.zend.com - Php is the most widely used server-side script language on the Web. Zend provide the manual and are a primary provider of Php resources.
MySql Database - www.mysql.com - The offical site of the MySql database, one of the most popular engines used for database driven web sites.
Search robots - www.searchtools.com/robots/robots-txt.html - Stop the search engine robots from crawling the private pages of your site. Includes links to other information about the search engine robots.
Web Development - Web Developer's Virtual Library at www.wdvl.com contains everything about Web development: Html, scripting languages, e-commerce, tools, downloads, and lots of tutorials. Another excellant site is www.webdeveloper.com with sections on advanced topics such as CSS, DHTML, XML. And another site of use is www.webmonkey.com.
Open Source E-Commerce
If you are building your site in-house, don't reinvent a complete e-commerce package yourselves. OsCommerce, at www.oscommerce.com, provide an Open Source (i.e. the source code can be freely used, modified and redistributed) ready built e-commerce package using Php/MySql. It includes customer accounts, catalogue, and shopping cart.
Another open source shopping cart, in Php with various databases, can be had from www.fishcart.org. This one has versions in various European languages, with provision for translation to others.