Hello, I am Louise

 

Basically, I want to make a website on which a customer can place an order and track it in real time..

Like the Domino's website where it tells you that they're prepping, baking, delivering ect.. I know they probably spent thousands on web design and such but does anyone know where to start?

I'm guessing there's no easy way to do it using a website builder or template or anything like that..

Thanks!

 

P.s I'm pretty new to this so no big words if you please

Edited May 4, 201214 yr by louwill701

Hmm, so there is no way to do this with an e-commerce system? I was trying to avoid hiring someone if I'm honest!

So what is your aim?

Well i dont think there is automated system that will know who what prepares. Either it's timed 20 min preparing, 20 min baking ... or machine do everything automated that it's connected to website, or every person click on button when he finish job. I heard that joomla and virtuemart have some plugin that can track shipment of order.

A lot of shopping cart systems have order "status" functions but they are usually something that is manually updated. Companies like Dominos have [very expenisve] integrated systems/networks which do all their order tracking, probably semi automatically, and have spent a lot of money developing them (think millions of dollars!).

 

You could faily easily do a timer function on your site using Javascript that works off the time of the order, but it would be fixed time periods so wouldn't necssarily be correct all of the time.

 

The other option would be to manually update order statuses but that could prove to be cumbersome for the client who has to make the status updates..

Welcome to the forums, I´m sure we can help you with any doubts you have

enjoy!

For a beginner to the world of Web development I always suggest starting off small and then adding to it. So, decide what you want the site to do, take away the difficult bits and then build what you know you can do. If that may only be drawing a design at this point then do that! Then learn how to make it into html and so on. Step by step.

 

Any half decent developer will be able to take what you have done and turn it into something that works, so if at some point you decide that you need to pay someone to add something, you can ask them to just do that and nothing else, keeping your costs down. A drawback to not hiring a professional is that your site may miss out on the simple yet important techniques that you wouldn’t know about unless you were quite well studied.

 

It doesn’t hurt to try things yourself but ultimately if you need a stable professional website… there is a reason that people pay us to do it for them.

Thanks very much guys! x