[ic] oh boy....

[Mike Clark]

----- Original Message -----
From: "G Guttero" <gguttero@hotmail.com>
To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 7:52 PM
Subject: [ic] oh boy....


> 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?
>

If you are willing to invest the time, learning Interchange will pay
dividends. It seems formidable at first, but once you figure out how it is
structured and how things work, you can do almost anything you want with
your store. You don't learn it in a week. I've been at it 5 months now and
rate myself as very competent, but not yet expert, with Interchange.

Good Luck,

Mike Clark