Directions:

Assess your personal skills and knowledge and consider what you might do for yourself (DIY) when building your website and when you might to to hire consultants or Internet firms to help you.

Answer the following questions:

1. Will you:

a. run/own your own server?

b. If not, what services and technology will you want from a Web Host?

2. Who will design your site?

3. Who will maintain your site and how extensive of a process will this be?

4. Will you accept orders online? 

a. If so, will you use secure commerce and a shopping cart, e-mail or other interactive technology?

b. If not, what method (s) will you use? (M.O.T.O, etc.)

5. Will you want or need to interface (connect) your Web site with existing databases or with new or existing order, accounting, inventory, or customer databases?

6. How will you connect to the Internet; what sort of modem, T1 line etc. connection will you need with your ISP to upload the site?

7. Who is your typical customer you will design for and what technology will they use?

Note: you can cut and paste these questions into the turnin link in Blackboard and then type your answers.