Soon you won’t have to hire expensive web coders and designers to set up an
online storefront. Microsoft is developing a program that lets people with no
programming experience design and lay out a customised e-commerce website. The
would-be online merchant is guided through a series of questionnaires designed
to extract information about their type of business, such as an inventory, their
preferred method of payment and so on. The online “wizard” then generates the
website automatically by combining the data with a set of hypertext templates.
The challenge will be to make the generated code as “clean” as possible.…
To continue reading, today with our introductory offers
Advertisement
More from New Scientist
Explore the latest news, articles and features
Popular articles
Trending New Scientist articles
1
The world's fastest spider tops 3.5 metres per second
2
Where, when and how to watch the 2026 solar eclipse
3
Babies are born with the neural foundations for maths
4
I’m the first person whose life was saved by CRISPR base editing
5
The race to understand how and when Thwaites glacier will collapse
6
The best sci-fi novel in 2026 so far – plus 6 other great reads
7
We’ve uncovered a master gene that switches on human development
8
Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe underwater
9
Humans sleep the least of all apes – is it the secret to our success?
10
Europe’s heatwave is the hottest and most humid ever



