[Tutor] building a website with python

[Bradley Cloete]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Benjamin Fishbein <bfishbein79 at 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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