A friend of mine wants me to make him a small e-commerce site. He wants to have a very specific layout, a shopping cart system, and the ability for somebody like him (who doesn't understand HTML or any other language) to add products easily.
I've come across a few open source shopping cart systems, and while these allow products to be added easily, they wouldn't allow for a very specific layout. I was wondering if anybody had any ideas. (Maybe any hosting companies with shopping carts that could do this?)
I'm aware that I could make my own shopping cart system in PHP, but this would require time, something we don't have.
Big D wrote: > A friend of mine wants me to make him a small e-commerce site. He > wants to have a very specific layout, a shopping cart system, and the > ability for somebody like him (who doesn't understand HTML or any > other language) to add products easily.
> I've come across a few open source shopping cart systems, and while > these allow products to be added easily, they wouldn't allow for a > very specific layout. I was wondering if anybody had any ideas. > (Maybe any hosting companies with shopping carts that could do this?)
> I'm aware that I could make my own shopping cart system in PHP, but > this would require time, something we don't have.
Generally, when you get a shopping cart or similar, you have to go with the layout they have. Some have limited customization possibilities, but without rewriting the HTML, you won't get the exact layout your customer wants.
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:01:21 -0700 (PDT), Big D <busta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>A friend of mine wants me to make him a small e-commerce site. He >wants to have a very specific layout, a shopping cart system, and the >ability for somebody like him (who doesn't understand HTML or any >other language) to add products easily.
>I've come across a few open source shopping cart systems, and while >these allow products to be added easily, they wouldn't allow for a >very specific layout. I was wondering if anybody had any ideas. >(Maybe any hosting companies with shopping carts that could do this?)
>I'm aware that I could make my own shopping cart system in PHP, but >this would require time, something we don't have.
Unlike most shopping cart software, http://www.avactis.com/ doesn't rely on its own dedicated template system, so it may be worth while checking out.
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:01:21 -0700 (PDT), Big D put finger to keyboard and typed:
>A friend of mine wants me to make him a small e-commerce site. He >wants to have a very specific layout, a shopping cart system, and the >ability for somebody like him (who doesn't understand HTML or any >other language) to add products easily.
>I've come across a few open source shopping cart systems, and while >these allow products to be added easily, they wouldn't allow for a >very specific layout. I was wondering if anybody had any ideas. >(Maybe any hosting companies with shopping carts that could do this?)
>I'm aware that I could make my own shopping cart system in PHP, but >this would require time, something we don't have.
Magento is very customisable, but having played with it a bit I've come to the conclusion that writing my own would be quicker! Zen Cart is probably the best I've found so far in terms of the balance between ease of use and flexibility.
I've spoken with the customer (my friend) and we've decided that ease of adding new items isn't the biggest priority since it turns out he knows some HTML. What I was thinking was something like this:
- We write our own product listings in HTML (there aren't many products), this way we can have our own custom layout - We have an add to cart link that adds the product the user wanted to whatever shopping cart we're using (whether it's magento, zencart, etc).
What would be useful is some type of shopping cart that would let us have our own custom page header, that way, they can click "Home" or "Products" or whatever at the top of the page and it takes them back to the site we designed.
On Oct 16, 5:01 pm, Big D <busta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine wants me to make him a small e-commerce site. He > wants to have a very specific layout, a shopping cart system, and the > ability for somebody like him (who doesn't understand HTML or any > other language) to add products easily.
> I've come across a few open source shopping cart systems, and while > these allow products to be added easily, they wouldn't allow for a > very specific layout. I was wondering if anybody had any ideas. > (Maybe any hosting companies with shopping carts that could do this?)
> I'm aware that I could make my own shopping cart system in PHP, but > this would require time, something we don't have.
indubitably wrote: > Thanks to everyone for your replies!
> I've spoken with the customer (my friend) and we've decided that ease > of adding new items isn't the biggest priority since it turns out he > knows some HTML. What I was thinking was something like this:
> - We write our own product listings in HTML (there aren't many > products), this way we can have our own custom layout - We have an > add to cart link that adds the product the user wanted to whatever > shopping cart we're using (whether it's magento, zencart, etc).
> What would be useful is some type of shopping cart that would let us > have our own custom page header, that way, they can click "Home" or > "Products" or whatever at the top of the page and it takes them back > to the site we designed.
But I would only use it for a small store. It may be adequate to meet your needs.
I had a client YEARS ago who hosted on a site that had a shopping cart system that would give you a link to items that you could use to add items to the cart without going through the shopping cart. I don't know if any of that made sense, but it is exactly what you are looking for.
Just understand that working this way can be a pain if your inventory is large, or changes often. You are making all of your changes twice: once in the shopping cart system, then once again by hand in the HTML.
mals-e doesn't seem to be very secure. There's nothing to prevent the customer from changing "price" in the link. Granted, you can use a hash, but what's to stop the customer from generating their own hash based on a price of, say, $1.00?
On Oct 17, 1:35 pm, Scott Bryce <sbr...@scottbryce.com> wrote:
> indubitably wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for your replies!
> > I've spoken with the customer (my friend) and we've decided that ease > > of adding new items isn't the biggest priority since it turns out he > > knows some HTML. What I was thinking was something like this:
> > - We write our own product listings in HTML (there aren't many > > products), this way we can have our own custom layout - We have an > > add to cart link that adds the product the user wanted to whatever > > shopping cart we're using (whether it's magento, zencart, etc).
> > What would be useful is some type of shopping cart that would let us > > have our own custom page header, that way, they can click "Home" or > > "Products" or whatever at the top of the page and it takes them back > > to the site we designed.
> But I would only use it for a small store. It may be adequate to meet > your needs.
> I had a client YEARS ago who hosted on a site that had a shopping cart > system that would give you a link to items that you could use to add > items to the cart without going through the shopping cart. I don't know > if any of that made sense, but it is exactly what you are looking for.
> Just understand that working this way can be a pain if your inventory is > large, or changes often. You are making all of your changes twice: once > in the shopping cart system, then once again by hand in the HTML.
from the relative safety of an aluminum foil deflector beanie, Big D put down the rubber duck and wrote in alt.www.webmaster:
> I've come across a few open source shopping cart systems, and while > these allow products to be added easily, they wouldn't allow for a > very specific layout. I was wondering if anybody had any ideas. > (Maybe any hosting companies with shopping carts that could do this?)
I'm going to second Mark's nomination of ZenCart. I've deployed several of them, and it's probably the easiest to customize. I believe that they have HTMLArea available as a WYSIWYG for adding products ...<checks /> yup!
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:01:21 -0700 (PDT), Big D wrote in alt.www.webmaster:
> A friend of mine wants me to make him a small e-commerce site. He > wants to have a very specific layout, a shopping cart system, and the > ability for somebody like him (who doesn't understand HTML or any > other language) to add products easily.
> I've come across a few open source shopping cart systems, and while > these allow products to be added easily, they wouldn't allow for a > very specific layout. I was wondering if anybody had any ideas. > (Maybe any hosting companies with shopping carts that could do this?)
> I'm aware that I could make my own shopping cart system in PHP, but > this would require time, something we don't have.
Checkout http://www.opencart.com/ I've done about 20 of these installations and it's pretty easy to redesign it.
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