Commerce Solutions
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Ok guys and gals,
I've got a question on a concept for a commerce store that sells hard goods with limited amount of inventory selection ( like 5 categories with a few items in each) but with a lot of each like 50+ of each item. What I would like to know is what kind of components or extensions (is that right?) are MUST HAVES in a store like this(and we're talking about budget here ;D)?
Also what would be a good way to showcase these items (design-wise) since I'm working with a little over a dozen items. I was thinking of having your standard menu on the left side, then in the main body area i'd have thumbnails of the items with each category separated by some type of bar or mini-header, similar to buy.com but much much simpler.
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- Richie Mortimer
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the obvious one to recommend would be VirtueMart
but it is the ugliest thing in the world - but im sure with a little knowhow and time it could be a pretty little thing
virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_cont...iew&id=145&Itemid=97
oh and its free
this is a nice product - but ive never used it so cant comment
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- Richie Mortimer
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it was ugly when i used it
maybe it was me
;D
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- Mack
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craig loose wrote:
it was ugly when i used it
maybe it was me ;D
Default store is ugly. It's only there to get it working. You need to customize it o make it look good and fit into your site.
My only problem is I have no artistic ability (which is why I joined RT in the first place) and every time I try to customize it I make it worse. If you cruise the VM forums, many people contribute things that do make it better.
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- Richie Mortimer
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Mack wrote:
craig loose wrote:it was ugly when i used it
maybe it was me ;D
Default store is ugly. It's only there to get it working. You need to customize it o make it look good and fit into your site.
My only problem is I have no artistic ability (which is why I joined RT in the first place) and every time I try to customize it I make it worse. If you cruise the VM forums, many people contribute things that do make it better.
yeh i think thats what it was.
i am artistic - i can imagine things, its doing them that my problem
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I've actually demo'd the features of virtuemart and they don't seem at all that bad. I was dreading when I heard the word 'ugly' and would be extremely disappointed.
I was also looking at oscommerce as well.
I don't need anything fancy, just something simple and clean. I mean there are bigger things to worry about with a commerce site than how artistic your cart looks.
I also saw a service site for commerce functions for 650$ which is a bit high if you ask me so I'll try out the free resources. It's just that I always follow the saying "you get what you pay for" and am worried with those solutions. Then again joomla is free...
So any thoughts on design or no?
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- Rick O Banion
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- Just match up the CSS and it fits really nice. OSCommerce is so bloated...just ..yuck. Virtuemart is quite configurable. You may even get lucky with a pre-made CSS file for it out of another virtuemart template..though I've not tried that route.
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- Mikael Persson
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I have done many sites with oscommerce and i like that. But virtuemart are more simple at start from.
That people some not can any php-programmering have many problems with oscommerce.
PS. What template from RT are optimiced for virtuemart?
Maybe can RT make template for -commerce with virtuemart a month
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Mikael Persson wrote:
I have done many sites with oscommerce and i like that. But virtuemart are more simple at start from.
That people some not can any php-programmering have many problems with oscommerce.
PS. What template from RT are optimiced for virtuemart?
Maybe can RT make template for -commerce with virtuemart a month
I like that suggestion. If the people here at rockettheme could make a commerce site with integrated virtuemart (or something similar) and rocketlauncher that would be the best thing that ever happened!
I dont have any php programming skills, only very little from what i've learned from the tutorials. I'm still trying to digest many weeks of html, css and joomla education. Hopefully, I'll be able to get my site up and running within a month, with no errors.
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