April 23rd, 2008
In order to understand how osCommerce helps us to build an e-commerce site, we can compare the creation of a website to the building of a house. Having free software is, for example, like being given the raw materials for building the house—sand, concrete, bricks, and wood—for free. This doesn’t mean the whole house is free though. We still have to design the house and actually put it up. In our case, osCommerce is like a framework for the house; the overall structure is there, but we still have to put on the roof and decide what windows we need and so forth.
Using this analogy also helps to show why planning is so important. Obviously, it would be pretty startling to hear that building contractors for a house had gone ahead with construction without an architect first designing the house. Of course, this is exactly what people do when they don’t sit down and plan out their site beforehand. Having worked through this chapter, we will already have completed the designing and planning phase of the project and will be ready to don our hardhats and begin with construction, or development, as it is known.
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