Coin-Ops is looking to develop a website that includes e-commerce capabilities, as well as more advanced order-checking functions for their commercial customers. They plan on hiring contractors to complete the site, with the future plan of hiring a staff of five to maintain and manage the site on a daily basis. But Coin-Ops's disadvantage is that while the founders intimately know the quirks of a pinball board built in 1974, they are absolutely lost where the web is concerned. They have asked 102CG to investigate and report on the different web development tools and web platforms available. They need to know the advantages and disadvantages of various products and tools so that they will be informed when dealing with the contractors they will be hiring. Finally, Coin-Ops ask you to make a recommendation as to the tools that would best suit their purpose.
