Building E-commerce Sites

For better or worse, more and more of today’s World Wide Web is about selling goods and services, rather than providing freely available information for educational or other purposes. Once the realm of researchers, educators, and techies, the Net is now largely seen as a way to sell to a larger market with less overhead.

Whether this counts as progress is a debate I’ll leave for the history books. What it means for you as a Web developer is that sooner or later, you will probably need to build some type of e-commerce Web application, hopefully with ColdFusion.

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