Soon you won’t have to hire expensive web coders and designers to set up an
online storefront. Microsoft is developing a program that lets people with no
programming experience design and lay out a customised e-commerce website. The
would-be online merchant is guided through a series of questionnaires designed
to extract information about their type of business, such as an inventory, their
preferred method of payment and so on. The online “wizard” then generates the
website automatically by combining the data with a set of hypertext templates.
The challenge will be to make the generated code as “clean” as possible.…
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