Announcing a new Satchmo-powered online store

[daniel...@gmail.com]

A big thank you to the Satchmo community! I launched
http://www.TheQuiltPatternShoppe.com a little more than a month ago,
and the site has been running great (and I've even had a bunch of
sales). I've seen posts in the past of people sharing their new
Satchmo store with everyone, so I thought I'd share too.

It was fun setting up satchmo -- an online store for quilting
hobbyists to purchase and download quilt patterns. The store uses the
Authorize.Net module for payment. Just about every product uses the
DownloadableProduct subtype, and it works great. Thanks to the hints
in this post (http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/
browse_thread/thread/181bcc0ad25e8287/94924bedc65fa159), I was able to
program an affiliate marketing app into Satchmo. The site also uses
Satchmo's gift certificate functions to sell and receive payment
through gift certificates. I was also able to write a custom
newsletter module to tie Satchmo's newsletter system into a different
Django newsletter system with ease.

Thank you again for a great product. If you have any feedback, please
let me know!

-Dan

[Kevin]

Congrats!

Any chance you can repurpose that newsletter module and contribute
back into satchmo or maybe it doesn't fit into satchmo but possibly a
reusable django app for the community?

Site looks great!

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[Bruce Kroeze]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:31 AM, daniel...@gmail.com <daniel...@gmail.com> wrote:

A big thank you to the Satchmo community!    I launched
http://www.TheQuiltPatternShoppe.com a little more than a month ago,
and the site has been running great (and I've even had a bunch of
sales).  I've seen posts in the past of people sharing their new
Satchmo store with everyone, so I thought I'd share too.

Gah, I hate it when I launch a site, announce it and ... it crashes.  That said, your shop is down.

Jag introduced me to a great little monitoring app I'm now in love with.  "Monit", which will send you notices about processes dying.

 

  Thanks to the hints
in this post (http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/
browse_thread/thread/181bcc0ad25e8287/94924bedc65fa159), I was able to
program an affiliate marketing app into Satchmo.  

Hey, I somehow missed that post.  I've added a link to that on Ticket #287, and accepted that ticket as a 1.0 milestone item.

 I was also able to write a custom
newsletter module to tie Satchmo's newsletter system into a different
Django newsletter system with ease.

+1 on contributing that plugin.

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Bruce Kroeze
http://solidsitesolutions.com
Dynamic Designs, Optimized

[Marcin Chojnowski]

2008/9/12 Bruce Kroeze <bkr...@gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:31 AM, daniel...@gmail.com
> <daniel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A big thank you to the Satchmo community! I launched
>> http://www.TheQuiltPatternShoppe.com a little more than a month ago,
>> and the site has been running great (and I've even had a bunch of
>> sales). I've seen posts in the past of people sharing their new
>> Satchmo store with everyone, so I thought I'd share too.
>
> Gah, I hate it when I launch a site, announce it and ... it crashes. That
> said, your shop is down.

I can reach this website fine :)

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jid: mchojnowski<at>gmail.com uin: 2297222

[sl]

))nice

Unhandled Exception
An unhandled exception was thrown by the application.

B)

[Costantino Giuliodori]

2008/9/12 daniel...@gmail.com <daniel...@gmail.com>:

>
> A big thank you to the Satchmo community! I launched
> http://www.TheQuiltPatternShoppe.com a little more than a month ago,
> and the site has been running great (and I've even had a bunch of
> sales). I've seen posts in the past of people sharing their new
> Satchmo store with everyone, so I thought I'd share too.

A little question, in your settings.py is there the 'satchmo' line in
INSTALLED_APPS tuple ?
The question is because the italian translation is not correct.

Great work!

[daniel...@gmail.com]

Would you be interested in my version of the affiliate marketing code?

I don't know how helpful the custom newsletter module would be to
others, as I wrote the newsletter system myself in Perl a year ago.

Thanks for telling me about Monit.

On Sep 12, 3:41 pm, "Bruce Kroeze" <bkro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:31 AM, danielpurc...@gmail.com <

>
> danielpurc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A big thank you to the Satchmo community! I launched

> >http://www.TheQuiltPatternShoppe.coma little more than a month ago,

> > and the site has been running great (and I've even had a bunch of
> > sales). I've seen posts in the past of people sharing their new
> > Satchmo store with everyone, so I thought I'd share too.
>
> Gah, I hate it when I launch a site, announce it and ... it crashes. That
> said, your shop is down.
>
> Jag introduced me to a great little monitoring app I'm now in love with.
> "Monit", which will send you notices about processes dying.
>
> > Thanks to the hints
> > in this post (http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/

> > browse_thread/thread/181bcc0ad25e8287/94924bedc65fa159<http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/browse_thread/thread/181...>),

[daniel...@gmail.com]

Constantino,

I'm having trouble understanding what you mean. I have many lines
that have a 'satchmo' in the Installed Apps section, such as
'satchmo.product', 'satchmo.contact', and so forth. I did not
translate the store into Italian (or any other language other than
English). Could that be part of the problem?

On Sep 13, 11:47 am, "Costantino Giuliodori"
<costantino.giuliod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/12 danielpurc...@gmail.com <danielpurc...@gmail.com>:

>
>
>
> > A big thank you to the Satchmo community! I launched

> >http://www.TheQuiltPatternShoppe.coma little more than a month ago,

[Costantino Giuliodori]

2008/9/15 daniel...@gmail.com <daniel...@gmail.com>:

>
> Constantino,
>
> I'm having trouble understanding what you mean.  I have many lines
> that have a 'satchmo' in the Installed Apps section, such as
> 'satchmo.product', 'satchmo.contact', and so forth. 

Sorry Daniel,
what I wanted to ask is whether within the tuple INSTALLED_APPS is the string " 'satchmo'," alone.

I ask this because someone else had the same problem viewing the site in Italian (and other languages), and was due to the lack of string 'satchmo' in INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = (
   'django.contrib.admin',
[...]
   'satchmo',
   'satchmo.caching',
[...]

}


> I did not
> translate the store into Italian (or any other language other than
> English).  Could that be part of the problem?

Even if you have not performed the translation of the site in Italian, when a user accesses the site, he can read some in Italian.
The same happens to any other language, because you have installed the locale middleware.

[daniel...@gmail.com]

Constantino,

No, the 'satchmo' line was not in INSTALLED_APPS, so I added it. Does
the translation work for you now? What URL do you access for the
translation?

On Sep 15, 10:47 am, "Costantino Giuliodori"
<costantino.giuliod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/15 danielpurc...@gmail.com <danielpurc...@gmail.com>:

>
>
>
> > Constantino,
>
> > I'm having trouble understanding what you mean. I have many lines
> > that have a 'satchmo' in the Installed Apps section, such as
> > 'satchmo.product', 'satchmo.contact', and so forth.
>
> Sorry Daniel,
> what I wanted to ask is whether within the tuple INSTALLED_APPS is the
> string " 'satchmo'," alone.
>
> I ask this because someone else had the same problem viewing the site in
> Italian (and other languages), and was due to the lack of string 'satchmo'
> in INSTALLED_APPS
>
> INSTALLED_APPS = (
> 'django.contrib.admin',
> [...]

> *'satchmo',*

[Costantino Giuliodori]

2008/9/16 daniel...@gmail.com <daniel...@gmail.com>

Constantino,

No, the 'satchmo' line was not in INSTALLED_APPS, so I added it.  Does
the translation work for you now?  What URL do you access for the
translation?

The url is the same http://www.thequiltpatternshoppe.com/shop/ .

To be able to see the partial translation is enough to change the 
language of your browser. 
Yet not all the elements are translated, for example, the button 
search. Perhaps this is a problem of cache.