[ic] Reliability of IC

[Jim Musil]

Great answer! Thanks.

I'm prepared for a few hours of monthly maintenance and sprucing up, 
but I'm trying to avoid losing a day or two trying to track down a 
poorly documented bug.

Jim M

>On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Jim Musil wrote:
>
>JM>>I think the power and flexibility and open-source support of
>JM>>interchange is amazing, but I'm wondering how reliable it is.
>
>IMHO, that question is totally dependent on your server.
>
>Interchange is a mature program that has been around almost since Lincoln
>was shot! It is pretty bulletproof. Problems can usually be traced to either
>the server, or the person doing the implementation.
>
>JM>>Is it conceivable that, as an independent developer, I could build
>JM>>out a fairly simple cart/store and then walk away?
>
>As I understand it, there are people doing it all of the time.
>
>JM>>(This presumes, of course, that I did a thorough job of setting up
>JM>>the store and testing, and that the client is content with the
>JM>>finished product.)
>
>The client is going to need to be well-versed at adding new products, at
>deleting old ones, at doing things to 'perk up' the store - re-arranging
>stuff in the html code of the main page and any supplemental pages that you
>put in.
>
>Radio Shack has a policy of totally re-arranging their store every so often,
>requiring the customer to have to stop and look at what is there instead of
>walking in in a trance and getting what they want and walking out.
>
>I re-arrange my front page regularly, presenting the same things in a
>different way for just this reason.
>
>This last weekend, sales were off, so I had an 'Overstock Sale' and
>everything in the store was 10% off. Sales immediately picked up. I do this
>by uncommenting one line in index.html. This is one of the nice things about
>e-commerce. If you want to have a sale, just announce it on the main page
>and send out e-mails to your customers on your e-mail list.
>
>There is no reason why you can't just walk away from it and put it into
>'perpetual motion' mode. But, don't overlook the aspect of residual income
>where you go back once a month to check up on it, perhaps shuffle some pages
>for them to spruce it up, etc.
>
>-= Jim =-
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