Re: [SMSI] WebDNA is too good to go away!
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2006
It keeps the original formatting.
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interpreted = N
texte = > What do you think? I think you've never really taken a serious look at what's available in other eCommerce packages. I was totally shocked and amazed at what I found the first time I looked. There are SO MANY good eCommerce packages out there for PHP and MySQL that it will blow your mind -- and many of them are totally free! Spending an hour or two installing and exploring ZenCart (or one of the other popular solutions) might give you a surprising new perspective in this issue: http://www.zen-cart.com I installed, configured and customized a Zen-Cart installation in less than 4 hours yesterday. That includes everything including the CSS but not the graphic images. It would have taken me weeks to do the same thing in webdna because there are virtually no complete ecommerce solutions available for webdna, which means I would have had to do it all from scratch. My $3 per month unlimited domain hosting service already offers Zen-Cart, CubeCart, OSCommerce, Exchange Shopping Cart and Agora Shopping Cart on the server, a simple one-click installation via cPanel. I could install any others I might find if I prefer them of course, but with 5 very powerful and popular (and well-supported I might add) solutions already on the server I may never have to. The fact is, most of these packages effectively separate the code from the layout via templating and CSS, so it's a simple matter to create a unique design with all the features most clients need and want -- within a few hours -- and then to add any special features manually that might need custom coding. I would strongly suggest that you take a good look at Zen-Cart first. Go through their admin section thoroughly. Then come back and tell us what is NOT offered in the default Zen-Cart package that you might have to custom code manually for the store you just created. I'll bet that Zen-cart already offers most or all of the features you had to custom-coded in your recent webdna store, plus dozens more than you can add later with a few mouse clicks rather than dozens of hours of additional custom coding. :) Sincerely, Kenneth Grome On Fri, 05 May 2006 14:02:41 -0500, Donovan Brooke wrote: > I am just finishing up another WebDNA store front. The store front > has (the now standard) full > backend content administration, CC gateway interface, and completed > order processing. > It has an orders db, customer db, brand db, category db etc.. etc.. > In other words, its > your (slightly above standard) fully featured ecommerce store front. > The entire store was custom created from a text editor (minus design > look and feel). > ..Maybe not a spectacular feet in itself... However, contrary to > Adam's belief that this product is > like an 8 track, I've produced this (custom) store, with one man, in > about 40 hours so far. > I expect the final version (with design and all bugs worked out) to > be around 50 hours. > I get to extend, to my client, that efficiency (in the form of cost) > as well. > > I think a PHP or other system, would be very hard pressed to > challenge that. I can maybe see > someone putting up a canned PHP store and changing it a bit, and > perhaps reaching near > the same time / cost goals, but I would be very impressed if someone > could code > the store that I'm just finishing up, by hand, and in the same time > frame. Maybe > I'm wrong? what do you think? ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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> What do you think? I think you've never really taken a serious look at what's available in other eCommerce packages. I was totally shocked and amazed at what I found the first time I looked. There are SO MANY good eCommerce packages out there for PHP and MySQL that it will blow your mind -- and many of them are totally free! Spending an hour or two installing and exploring ZenCart (or one of the other popular solutions) might give you a surprising new perspective in this issue: http://www.zen-cart.com I installed, configured and customized a Zen-Cart installation in less than 4 hours yesterday. That includes everything including the CSS but not the graphic images. It would have taken me weeks to do the same thing in webdna because there are virtually no complete ecommerce solutions available for webdna, which means I would have had to do it all from scratch. My $3 per month unlimited domain hosting service already offers Zen-Cart, CubeCart, OSCommerce, Exchange Shopping Cart and Agora Shopping Cart on the server, a simple one-click installation via cPanel. I could install any others I might find if I prefer them of course, but with 5 very powerful and popular (and well-supported I might add) solutions already on the server I may never have to. The fact is, most of these packages effectively separate the code from the layout via templating and CSS, so it's a simple matter to create a unique design with all the features most clients need and want -- within a few hours -- and then to add any special features manually that might need custom coding. I would strongly suggest that you take a good look at Zen-Cart first. Go through their admin section thoroughly. Then come back and tell us what is NOT offered in the default Zen-Cart package that you might have to custom code manually for the store you just created. I'll bet that Zen-cart already offers most or all of the features you had to custom-coded in your recent webdna store, plus dozens more than you can add later with a few mouse clicks rather than dozens of hours of additional custom coding. :) Sincerely, Kenneth Grome On Fri, 05 May 2006 14:02:41 -0500, Donovan Brooke wrote: > I am just finishing up another WebDNA store front. The store front > has (the now standard) full > backend content administration, CC gateway interface, and completed > order processing. > It has an orders db, customer db, brand db, category db etc.. etc.. > In other words, its > your (slightly above standard) fully featured ecommerce store front. > The entire store was custom created from a text editor (minus design > look and feel). > ..Maybe not a spectacular feet in itself... However, contrary to > Adam's belief that this product is > like an 8 track, I've produced this (custom) store, with one man, in > about 40 hours so far. > I expect the final version (with design and all bugs worked out) to > be around 50 hours. > I get to extend, to my client, that efficiency (in the form of cost) > as well. > > I think a PHP or other system, would be very hard pressed to > challenge that. I can maybe see > someone putting up a canned PHP store and changing it a bit, and > perhaps reaching near > the same time / cost goals, but I would be very impressed if someone > could code > the store that I'm just finishing up, by hand, and in the same time > frame. Maybe > I'm wrong? what do you think? ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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