Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> Embed Inc is a good example of what Olin's ideal site would look like:
>
> Not at all.  That part of the site was done a bunch of years ago.  We had=
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> a
> business guy who decided the web site needed sprucing up, so he hired thi=
s
> web guy he knew.  Now of course both are gone and I'm stuck with the fron=
t
> part of the site I can't maintain.

I know exactly how it feels. :-( Although I consider it just another cost o=
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doing business. I can't do everything myself, so I must delegate. It helps=
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to have a fall-back plan in place.


> It's a mess.  One time I wanted to just
> add or even replace a single menu entry with something else, but the HTML
> was a mess and the buttons were actually images.  Note the link at the
> bottom of this message does not point to the main page, but rather a part=
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> I
> can maintain.

There are off-the-shelf shopping carts out there, that are pretty good.

Vitaliy

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