Quick Shopping Cartat GoDaddy Web Hosting

 
The other day, I worked with
a client who has a website hosted
at GoDaddy.com. His was a shopping
cart website. His shopping cart
was called Quick Shopping Cart.

Apparently Quick Shopping Cart
is a GoDaddy item. Here's the promotional
page for Quick Shopping Cart:

Quick Shopping Cart at GoDaddy

This is a pretty good piece of software.
My client, who started in August, now has
a fully populated shopping cart in March.

By fully populated, I mean he has more stuff
for sale on his website than I could count by
hand. That's what you need as a beginner.
You need something that will get you up and
running very quickly. The name Quick
Shopping Cart is aptly chosen.

My client tells me he knows nothing about the
web and I believe it. For example, he knows
absolutely no HTML.

Having a Quick Shopping Cart at GoDaddy
cuts the work by half or more. As a beginner,
you don't have to know HTML. You just have to
populate your shopping cart.

In general, there's huge need on the web for
things that get you there in half the time.
Quick Shopping Cart is just such a
thing.

Be aware, though, that things that are simple
are also things that are limited. The way
GoDaddy has made Quick Shopping Cart
simple is by limiting it.

This is true of simple software in general.
Simple software is limited software.

The most severe limitation of Quick
Shopping Cart is you are limited as
to how you can manipulate the HTML. However,
this is an important limitation. It keeps
you from shooting yourself in the foot.

Later, after working with Quick Shopping
Cart for a year or more, you might choose
to graduate to a shopping cart program that
gives you more flexibility.

Be aware, though, that you will be paying
for that flexibility by having to know more.
That's just the way it is.

I'm not an expert on Quick Shopping Cart
but it looks to me as if you can only enter
HTML code into certain prescribed boxes. In
a sense, it is similar to a message board where
you are allowed to use HTML, but only to mark
up your message, not the whole web page.

I highly recommend Quick Shopping Cart
as a beginner's first shopping cart. You will
be so much happier learning what a shopping cart
is without having to learn everything all at once.

Ed Abbott