Sell-It 2000TM Site Information and Credits
Sell-It 2000 started in early May 1997 when John Bottenfield, a good friend, asked if something along the lines of an online classified advertising service could be created. After some discussion, the crude beginnings of Sell-It 2000 started to take shape. Programming of the server scripts which are the heart of Sell-It 2000 started at first as an after work activity and later on became a full time job. As of this writing there are 68 scripts and 43 hypertext pages with more being added as time goes on. Sell-It 2000 was created in a modular and easily expandable manner to allow for future growth. Categories can be added, removed or edited instantly with a set of scripts designed for this purpose to allow dynamic changes to Sell-It 2000. This feature allows Sell-It 2000 to adapt to meet the changing needs of those who use this service.
Sell-It 2000 is currently running on an Intel Pentium 233 MHz processor running the Linux 2.2.x operating system. Sell-It 2000 uses Mysql database for the storage of ads, sellers information, category information and other information needed for Sell-It 2000 to work. There is currently room for over one million ads with the current hard disk space and upgrades are planned for the future. Hypertext pages include dynamic insertion of category information from the category database to insure that when a page is loaded it contains the current information. CGI scripts are created with the perl5 scripting language.
Pages and scripts were written by Brian McLaughlin and Michael Pastore. Michael also created most of the icons used for Sell-It 2000. The Sell-It 2000 site is optimized for Netscape browsers, but the site should work acceptably with Internet Explorer and other browsers, too. Sell-It 2000 uses a minimum of graphics throughout to keep loading times low.
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This file was last modified on Saturday, 04-Aug-2001 19:12:05 PDT