Comparison Shopping

Report · Aug 08, 2007

Hi, I have been asked to research a comparison shopping website project.
The site would be simillar to pricegrabber, bizrate, AOL shopping.

What I would like to know is this sort of site done with API's? How are the comparisons done? And can a site like this be done in Dreamweaver?

Thanks for any advice

Report · Aug 09, 2007

> The site would be simillar to pricegrabber, bizrate, AOL shopping.

Then tell the client to give you a budget simliar to pricegrabber, bizrate,
AOL shopping and you'll get started on hiring a development team. ;o)

> What I would like to know is this sort of site done with API's?

Well, you'd have to read the documentation of the API's from each web site
that has one available for you to use. In addition, there'd likely be a
significant amount of screen scraping that will have to be done.

> How are the
> comparisons done?

There's a whole lot of 'it depends' involved with that question.

> And can a site like this be done in Dreamweaver?

DW is text editor. You can build pretty much anything provided you know the
particular programming language you want to use to handle it all.

-Darrel