[ic] oh boy....

[Dan Browning]

At 04:52 PM 3/2/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Ok, I do ALL the stuff for my business which takes up a lot of my time.
>I've been looking over the archive and the info is pretty much over my 
>head.  What I need to know is, should I delve into the wonderful world of 
>Interchange and get it down so that I can have control over my store and 
>any I build in the future or will it be more than I can handle?
>
>I'm not a total stranger to coding, I do know HTML and it seems very easy 
>to me (impressed?), and I've heard that IC isn't a hard language to 
>learn.  But I'll need to know what?  PGP, IC, and what else?  I do all the 
>product photography, marketing, advertising, daily management, packing and 
>shipping, accounting, customer service, web design, and everything else 
>you could imagine for my business.  Yeah it keeps me busy, but it's 
>actually not too over the top.  Can I handle Interchange too?  I had a 
>buddy of mine doing the IC stuff before which is why I have a fully 
>functioning IC store on 4.6 right now.  He didn't build it from scratch, 
>he just modified the Foundation store, and learned IC as he went along 
>(he's quite a programmer), but he's had a bit of a spiritual awakening and 
>won't go anywhere near a computer most of the time now.  So is this a 
>do-able thing for me?  I DON'T want to learn PERL as I really think that 
>would just be too much.  Can I get by without it?  Will Interchange 
>overwhelm me?
>
>I would really appreciate as many responses as possible.  Thanks a lot guys!

"Ask not what your Interchange can do for you, but what you can do for your 
Interchange."

The question of how hard Interchange is to learn is directly proportionate 
to how much you want to do with it.  For example, running a store like 
Amazon.com would be more difficult than just running the default foundation 
catalog.

I hope that you enjoy Interchange, I certainly have.


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