On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Benjamin Fishbein <bfishbei...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > > You've gotten some good feedback, but I suspect you will get better > information if you provide more information about your goals for the site. > > > > Thanks for your help, everyone. There are some specific things I want the > site to do, and I'm not sure which would be the best developing tool or > hosting for these. > The python software I developed is for selling used books. > It takes book ISBN numbers as input and returns the best prices being > offered. > It uses the selenium module...I'm not sure how that would translate into a > website. > There are many websites that offer similar book price comparisons, but > mine is different...it's user-friendly. Any volunteer at a thrift shop or > library can use it...just a series of simple directions and yes/no > questions, taking the user all the way from scanning or typing in an ISBN > to dropping the parcel off at the post office. (The local libraries I > worked with more than doubled their used-book revenues.) I want to expand > this nationwide, and bookchicken.com seems to be the way to do it. > So much of the program is simple enough. But there's two parts of the > program that I anticipate being important to what host, development tool I > use: > 1. ISBNs (the books the thrift shop/ library has) being sent to various > websites and returning the data to my site to be analyzed by my program. > 2. Maneuvering through the website of the company buying the books. I > don't want to send the user off to a warehouse's site with a list of books > to sell to them. They'll still be entering their address and name, but > it'll be on my site, that I then send to the warehouse's page, get a > packing slip and shipping label from the warehouse, and give these > documents to the user to print out. > > I'm not sure if this changes anyone's ideas about which host/ developer I > should use. Please let me know. > Thanks, > Ben > > The Django website has a list of recommended hosts. https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts also... http://djangohosting.com/
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