ZEN Cart seems to be able to do anything I could possibly ever want, but seems a bit bloated (for me) and more importantly - it's design process seems unbearable. I don't want to have reform a default design, I have my website design completed other than the shopping cart related items. I want to be able to add them in, working the shopping cart into my site, rather than the other way around. I need a shopping cart that can handle discounts and inventories and such, and of course as small as possible. Can anyone help recommend an OS cart that will allow this?
Thank so much for your time and suggestions!!
You didn't ask for any platform/languages in particular, so.
If you're using Django, then Satchmo looks to be an attractive option. Even if you're not, it might be fairly trivial to mash in, depending on how your site is set up.
You could consider using the cart that Google Checkout provides — is a JS system , easily themed with CSS (if you can learn to accept the !important tag), but SimpleCartJs is as easy as it comes, and it's for PayPal. Re-styles easily and it's pretty elegant.
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I'm currently working on a simple scroll website with nothing really difficult (I could almost use plain html/css/javascript but it's a bit of practicing and I will maybe add a blog). And as it is simple I was wondering how to do it properly with Django.
So here is my question, I have a homepage template that is actually the website and I don't really get how I split my different part in different apps.
For exemple I have a contact form, do I need to split it in another app and then include it in the basic template ? I want to add a galery with image in a database, do I create an app for that ?
And the other question that goes along is how do I code an app that is not returning httpresponse but just html to put it in another template and do I still need views ? I would like to do a bit like a standard form in django where you do :
form.as_p or form.as_table
so maybe:
galery.as_slideshow
So my questions are quite novice and open but someone could give me some reading to get going, I would be really happy !
This is a question a lot of people struggle with and it seems like there are a lot of varying opinions out there.
I've found that the best way to really determine the appropriate answer for each case is to really distill the feature into individual requirements and group them by feature sets while keeping an eye out for additional uses outside of the project actively being worked on.
There is nothing which says you can't build your project to include a single app containing all of the modules you would need. Doing so seems like it would make your development easier initially right? So, the question to ask then is "What if I want to reuse (insert feature set here) in another unrelated project a year from now after I've already forgotten about the weird stuff I did to make it work originally?". Asking yourself that question forces you to think about your features in a much broader context and I think 99% of the time you will realize that a "Contact Form" requirement can actually become quite complex and really should be split up into at least one separate app (i.e. User Creation, Profile Management, Email Subscription, etc...)
Here is a link to a video about this very topic which I found to be useful in figuring out my way through this question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-S0tqpPga4
I know this is not really a hard-line answer to your question but I hope it helps point you in the right direction.
I am building an html5 site for someone and I am wondering what the best option would be for a shopping cart. I want something that will be integrated on the various pages, not just a separate area for a shop, although we may utilize that option also. She has used ZenCart on her other sites, but perhaps there is something better. I am not a developer so the simpler the better. There is a lot of merchandise to list. Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
You can use OpenCart. Its easy to make websites using it.
zencart is easy to edit ,even in code level.
but opencart is more powerful than zencart,especially in marketing and image manager.
so ,I also recommend opencart.
I'm very new to shopingcarts and am very impressed with Opencart. After looking under the hood, is there a way to allow users who register to add their own products to be sold? In effect, it becomes a B2B site like alibaba.com or ebay.
Feel free to correct me if I'm not approaching this the right way. I'm also open to other suggestions on which cart I should be using...as long as it's not Magento. hehe
That would require extensive modding, you definitely won't find this solution for free. I personally don't think this platform is well-suited for this, but of course it could be done, it's a straightforward MVC platform.
I an building a kind of social network (think of it as last.fm, but gaming related). I want to have a homepage which will feature:
site news, announcements etc. in the main part
featured items in the right sidebar
player of the week in the right sidebar
I am trying to think of a way not to be hand coding these every time they need to change, which I understand is terrible design. However, I can't think of much.
I realize I need some kind of simple blog engine for the site news and such, but what about the featured content in the sidebar? Should there be a table in the database containing the featured items of the week? I think that will pollute my models.py with unnecessary stuff.
Please share any ideas.
There are lots of ready-to-go solutions ie.
Pinax - great package of reusable apps,
Django CMS - not so great, but could be useful.
Django's static pages - for basic stuff :)
I'd try pinax first - it has all of what you need.
As for your featured stuff - it all depends on what exactly you need, on your content.
If you need something special you'd probably finish up writing this stuff by yourself,
or overriding parts of ready-to-go solutions.
Featured Items and Player of the Week will depend (usually) on your project specific Player / Item models. It shouldn't take long to program these small pieces.
As far as news, there are quite a few different solutions out there. Here's one that I've created (because I can't think of a better one off hand):
http://github.com/monokrome/django-news/
The best bet with django is to find the smaller apps you might be able to leverage, and then write your own project with your custom wants/needs in mind.
Any good cfml Shopping Cart app? Tried using one? What's your experience with it?
There are few carts listed in Arehart's list. Haven't tried any, so can't give advices.
I've used SiteSirector by QuillDesign before, and tried a few others. SiteDirector was the best I've seen. It's pretty easily extended and has a lot of features out of the box. I would recommend you take a look at it.
I have been using Cartweaver so far. It has been pretty good. If you are integrating it with an existing site you will have to merge the application cfm/cfc's which can get a bit hairy.
Cartweaver is well written otherwise though. I hope in future versions they will make the entire cart into cfc's, but it is a great value for the dollar.
My needs have allways required completly custom applications; however, this package has allways interested me: http://www.cfwebstore.com/
Great Price
Open Source Code
Good luck.