How many Hours

Shopping Cart Project

[fashezee]

How long would a ecommerce site with 650 products take to programm in ASP?

[andreasfriedrich]

That will depend on a huge number of things?

• How familiar are you with ASP?
• How familiar are you with the concepts of an ecommerce site?
• Do you have any classes or even a whole site framework to base your site on?
• What kind of features do you need?
• Are you a fast programmer or a slow one like me?
• Do you need to setup the database, cc processing, etc. as well?
• Does Windows like you?
• Moon phases ;-), etc.

The broader the question the broader the answer.

Andreas

[txbakers]

The number of products in an ASP site is not the issue.

A database can hold 650 or 65,000 and the site will still take the same amount of time to build and test.

[fashezee]

True

ASP Knowledge: 7.5/10

I would say I have sufficient knowledge of ecomm sites. I have developed several of them,
however they only had about 10 products max.

As for the framework, I guess I do, unless there's something drastically different I must
do for a larger site.

I need all the features: sopping cart, catalogue display, payment gateway, admin section.

Programming: I would say I would be a 7.5 as well on speed.

Windows: I had a few problems but in all, everything has been going fairly well.
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The site actually as over 3500 products.
How long would it take a 2 man team to do this?

Also, for rewriting the URLs so that they are indexable, what must I incorporate in the site?

[paladin]

Hi,
When I did my first e-commerce database driven site (multiple catagories, dynamic onsale & new items, admin with mass email, search orders and contacts, campaigns, etc...) it took about 80 hours of work.

On the other hand it now takes me about 2-3 days to get a similar site going, the fun part is I still get to charge my clients the same rate as I did the first one.