I am building a publicly facing website that does the following. Users log in. And then view a list of their customers. They click on a customer to view their past purchases, order them, change them etc. This is not a shopping site by the way. It is a simple look up tool.

Note that none of the data accessed by the website is in anything other than a SQL database - no office documents. Also, the login does not use users Windows credentials on a VPN or something like that.

Typically I would build this using a standard ASP.NET MVC website. However the client says they want to use Sharepoint.

As I understand it, Sharepoint is used for workflow and websites that are collaboration tools such as the components you can see here http://www.sharepointhosting.com/sharepoint-features.html

Here are my questions:

• Would I be right in saying that WSS is completely inappropriate for this task as it comes with an overhead that provides no benefits?

• If I had to use it, would I need WSS or MOSS?

• If I had to use it, would I be right in saying the site would consist of :

• List item

  a) Web Parts

  b) And a custom site layout. How do I create one of these?