I'm not sure if this is an appropriate question for StackOverflow. I have a friend show wants a simple "Brochure Ware" web site. I could make it for him but it would be better if he could manage it himself. Are there any services out there that allow a non-technical person to create and maintain a very simple site? I'm thinking just a few pages - contact, about, home with some photos and general info. He also wants to sell some stuff but I'm going to suggest he does this using EBay but the web site would be a handy reference for potential customers who want to know more about him and his services.
Thanks a lot!
Cheers
Mark
You are looking for a Content Management System (CMS).
You can build your own software, try something open-source, or go the easy way, and go with SaaS: software as a service. Something that fits your needs (based on what you told us), is something like Shopify. It manages your products, orders, but also has functionality to manage static pages.
agreed with the CMS comment #Phil Hunt
if you are a true non-nerd go for the 5 minute install of wordpress
so simple. Shopify plugin?
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I am building a website that should allow users to buy stuff from each other. I don't want to be involved in money transactions at all. It will be pretty much something like eBay. Card payments are not a must. Basically user views an item added by another user, clicks on a buy button and finishes the payment using third-party service.
The application will be based on Django and I was thinking of PayPal. I also do not want to pay for Premium accounts as I am not planning to charge users or earn money in any way. Could you please give me some advice on what is the best solution for this kind of project? I have been doing some research on the Internet but I am still quite confused.
Any help is much appreciated, thank you.
I am personally a huge fan of Stripe. It's much easier to work with than PayPal and also much easier to implement. It allows you to add transaction fees if you wish.
I'd read up on it, as it has quite a few solutions ranging from inclusion of a simple JavaScript file that creates Checkout/Pay buttons to designing a custom checkout flow.
Their documentation is extensive, highly geared toward developers, and worth the read.
Good luck!
I don't have much experiences with web services at all, but i hope someone here can give me some advice on how to create what i'm searching, or at least point me in the direction of a useful tutorial.
Here goes:
I have a news section, with news items. Example of the path: content\home\news\ (here all news items are stored as seperate items).
Now i wanna take the news title and text fields, and export those for viewing on another website, on another domain (not running in a sitecore solution). I think the smartest solution for this, is to use webservices or am i wrong?
And if it is, how can i do this the easiest way in a web service? I tried to find some documentation on how to do this, but haven't had any luck in doing so. Some example code would be nice.
Really hope someone here can contribute with a little help, would be much appreciated.
I agree with steve, the fast way to get this working is with RSS. Then on the other end, outside of sitecore, you could parse the rss right on the page via javascript: Parse RSS with jQuery
I'm working on a software that I would like to offer for free in charge with advertisement banners inside the application. Something like the banners in Spotify or the banner in the MS Live Messenger Contact List. Something like the iAd system that integrates in iOS-applications.
Are there any solution for this? I'm programming a multi platform C++ Qt-application. Of course I can have a web browser frame and use a web-based advertising system, but that would be very easy to block for the user. Therefore I would prefer a system that also would work offline in some way.
As you all have pointed on; it's very difficult to imagine a system that will run even without a network connection. As I mentioned in the question, the best solution would be to have a WebView and depend on the network. And I think so too, but I was interested IF there was something geneous solution out there that I couldn't find.
In addition I think I can display a banner for the company or something like that when there are no connection. My application does not need Internet connection for any other functions, so it would be very easy to click "no" when the windows firewall asks for permissions for the program.
But I still want the advertisement to be annoying enough to give the paying users a good advantage. (I personally hates other programs doing so, and the alternative for me is to release the software Open Source, but I think I have a good idea, and if I ever finish and release something, I would like to see if it is possible to get any money out of it.)
Doesn't QT have something like a KHTML webbrowser control ?
Then you could simply embedd a web-page with a google add in a HTML page.
I suggest offline banners as well. Just you should organize a smart mechanizm in order to have your banners in a safe place, because user can just find the banner folder, and delete all banners and put there just a blank image with a fixed color and your ads are done :).
Also you should update the banner folder content whenewer the user has an internet connection and you should do that in background! This is the main idea.
If there are improvements of this idea, I would like to discuss with great pleasure as this question interrests me too!
Intro
I am working on an e-commerce website. And we want to add a feature where a user can refer others via a custom link e.g.:
http://example.com/a1t2312 or http://example.com/?ref=a1t2312 (a1t231 being the referral code).
A user following such a link, will navigate a few pages on the site. And if he reached the 'buy' page and purchases something - the original referrer will get a discount.
The question is:
What is the best method to track the referral code? Put it in the user's cookies? Stick it somehow into the session? Other method?
I would definitely use cookies, as it is the easiest (but not foolproof, though). Sessions are by site, so that won't work, unless the receiving site has some code to handle the user.
All methods mentioned by you are OK. If I were you I would consider using sessions because it is more natural to me.
disclaimer: session has some limitations when you want to build application ready for heavy-load. For complicated demployment scenarios avoiding sessions might be a good choice.
I would like to create some kind of open free "group" posting of photos with geotags
First I thought about Panoramio, but seems there is no API for photos upload.
By now I can see only two ways:
Flickr - there are groups but you have to approve group membership anyway, or use tags for grouping which is bad for maintenance
Custom server solution which will cost efforts and hosting
Can you suggest other free photo services with geotags functionality, or opensource solutions?
Thank you!
EDIT
:) Want to add, that I am intrasted in services with open API that is why I thought its a good idea ask this question at SO...
I guess, Picasa may be an alternative in some way.
Picasa access in android: PicasaUploadActivity
it also seems like panoramio does have an API based on services with responses in JSON
the request will be something like
http://www.panoramio.com/map/get_panoramas.php?order=popularity&set=public&from=0&to=10&minx=-124.29382324218749&miny=36.089060460282006&maxx=-119.8773193359375&maxy=38.724090458956965&callback=MyCallback
checkout this post in google geo developers blog for more info
hope it helps.
G.