Okay, here's my beginner's question: Where do I start?


Back in the Dark Ages, I built this web site (http://frenchdoll.tripod.com) for a client, along with a custom content managent system that I wrote myself in java. She abandoned the web page years ago because she was doing all her business on eBay.

Since then, a lot has changed. Nowadays, eBay is doing their darnedest to be an unviable option for sellers, and there's way better content management packages in OpenSource, and I'm no longer involved in web development. Froogle now requires built-in eCommerce.

That being the case, she'd like to resurrect her old web page. I'd like to grab an off-the-shelf solution and move on. Preferably something lightweight and fast. I've found that I can run sophisticated CMS on free hosts like http://www.100webspace.com. If she wants to enter product information into a database, and I want to do as little as possible, is this the package I should be looking at?

http://www.100webspace.com has a bunch of the features one would need for CMS and I can leave her with a completely free solution.


Autoload eCommerce Shopping Cart Script
http://sourceforge.net/projects/autoload/

VirtueMart
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtuemart

XOOPS
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xoops
What's the difference between XOOPS and XOOPS Cube?
"Object-Oriented" ... sounds powerful ... sounds like work

TikiWiki
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki
I could prolly just structure this as a wiki that only she could edit. If it has built-in eCommerce, great, but the old one didn't.

MindTouch
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dekiwiki

bitweaver
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitweaver

eGroupWare
http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware