"As MIS (mostly insomniac serf) of an 18M+ corporation I knew we needed to be "on the web". After an exhausting search for guru's and razzle-dazzle companies, I came to the conclusion that there were basically two type of programming providers. The terribly inexperienced and the terribly expensive. So, like any able-bodied manager, I decided to do it myself.

Big mistake.

I bought all the books, stayed up night-after-night and learned. Mostly I learned that I was desperately lost. One despondent night I happened on the eXtropia home page. Low and behold, there was a ready-made CGI application that did exactly what I wanted....

To make a long story short, after four or five months...the store was "on the web". The whole process is a lot easier and a lot cleaner now. There is organized, professional help available to get your store installed and configured. The extropia.com Developers Network exists to "take the bumps out of the road".