There are two suggestions that i have. First, spend some time finding and talking to potential customers. Try to find fifty that care enough about this that you can do the work by hand. Prove that there is a market. While you are doing customer discovery interviews, build your social medial muscles and build out a network of people who care about sleep apnea.
As you do that, find a co5ntent management tool, like google sites, wordpress or drupal to build out content. Everything you talked about is doable at some level by content management tools On Jan 1, 2013 8:37 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am considering creating a simple web site where people can trade > supplies needed for sleep apnea equipment. (Supplies do not require a > prescription.) This will be a labor of love pro bono. I expect I may > have to pay out of pocket for the domain, but hopefully that can be > minimized. > > More importantly, I need to create the web site, and I know zero about > HTML and web site design. However, what I have in mind will be > extremely simple. Shopping carts and such are not needed because I will > not be selling anything. However, I will require some way for people to > post what they have, with an automatic deletion after a time. I am > thinking of a template that they fill out in order to post something. > Think of the page you fill out to post something on eBay, except vastly > simpler. > > I also need some way for people to communicate with a poster via > concealed e-mail address. And probably a subscriber/member list with > verification, lest the site get spammed. > > And there are probably other things that I haven't thought of. Did I > say that I knew nothing of web design? > > Suggestions? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
