ShopSite Quickstart Guide: Pre-Assessment

ShopSite Quickstart Guide

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Pre-Assessment and Organization
After contacting an Internet presence provider and having the ShopSite Manager software installed on a virtual server, Tina sits down and organizes (on paper - the old fashioned way) her products. She puts them into logical categories, which will be divided into separate pages. After much consternation and thought, she chooses four:

Click here for more information on hiring a designer. Tina then decides which products fall into which category. She thinks out descriptions and chooses prices for each product; she collects pictures of each one and has them scanned and converted into gif format by a local graphic designer, who also designs a logo, some letterhead, and a business card. Though she could have saved money by preparing the images herself, Tina chooses to let a professional do the work, because she does not have much experience editing images and does not own a scanner. Rather than pay the copy shop high hourly rates for scanning and then have to purchase and learn to use new software, she leaves it up to a professional. The graphic designer consulted with her, created the images, and gave them to her on disk.
This much preparation might seem like overkill, but since time is money, there's no use going back over and over to re-do something when you can get it right the first time with a little preparation.

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Click here for more information on hosting services.	Pre-Assessment and Organization After contacting an Internet presence provider and having the ShopSite Manager software installed on a virtual server, Tina sits down and organizes (on paper - the old fashioned way) her products. She puts them into logical categories, which will be divided into separate pages. After much consternation and thought, she chooses four:

Click here for more information on hiring a designer.	Tina then decides which products fall into which category. She thinks out descriptions and chooses prices for each product; she collects pictures of each one and has them scanned and converted into gif format by a local graphic designer, who also designs a logo, some letterhead, and a business card. Though she could have saved money by preparing the images herself, Tina chooses to let a professional do the work, because she does not have much experience editing images and does not own a scanner. Rather than pay the copy shop high hourly rates for scanning and then have to purchase and learn to use new software, she leaves it up to a professional. The graphic designer consulted with her, created the images, and gave them to her on disk. This much preparation might seem like overkill, but since time is money, there's no use going back over and over to re-do something when you can get it right the first time with a little preparation.