Modern website

[dieter]

Andrew Z <formisc at gmail.com> writes:
> I realize the following has little todo with python per se. But i hope to
> get a guidance on how these types of tasks are done nowadays.
>
> The task:
> Ive been asked to create  an integration process. That is a few webpages
> with questioneer with the submission to a "mother" company using its API .
> Ideally this process will be used by a few 3rd party "child" companies -
> they would just point a link from their site to mine. Prospective users
> will fill out the pages and "mother company" will create accounts
> associated with the referal "child" company.
>
> The problem:
>   how do i create a modern , slick  website. I also see , that each of
> "child" would want to extend the look and feel of their site onto this
> process. So, my process should have at least a few templates i can offer ,
> that would match their site...
> Im not too excited to use weebly or squarespace - id rather host everything

If the liberty of the "client" sites is of primary concern, then
you can use a so called "service oriented architecture".
Such an architecture sonsists of components, most of which providing
a services via a standard API, destined for programmatic use.

You can have services on different levels of abstraction, e.g.
a base level using only structural data without any presentation
and on top of this some standard presentation (which can be used
by clients with more standard presentation requirements).

There are several API-frameworks: e.g. frameworks supporting
WSDL (= "Web Services Description language", an XML-based technology),
JSON-RPC, XML-RPC, ReST, ...