The4thMarketeer » open source http://www.the4thmarketeer.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:55:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The4thMarketeer http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/bbd3e8a1ab66857e55f279f6ff0bf428?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536 http://www.the4thmarketeer.com Premier Shopping Cart… Or WordPress with eShop?? http://www.the4thmarketeer.com/2009/12/premier-shopping-cart-or-wordpress-with-eshop/ http://www.the4thmarketeer.com/2009/12/premier-shopping-cart-or-wordpress-with-eshop/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:08:11 +0000 benny http://www.the4thmarketeer.com/?p=197


To follow on with yesterday’s theme on my adoration of Open Source developers, I thought I should add my experience of premier shopping cart programs and the resolution of it all.

When I first started TheGeekPolice, the course advisors suggested using a hosted shop company called Magellan Commerce. Being that they were the ones who where in the know, I took their advice and signed up for $30-$40 a month for the package. What I got was an online shop, with some decent back of house stuff, but no real malleability with the design. There were about 10 different themes that I could choose from, but to personalise it (not knowing anything about CSS) was going to cost me, at the very, very least, $500.

Over time too, access to the back area became very slow, and to upload stuff was tedious and long winded. One day it took 5 mins just to get in. I don’t know if the server was slow or what the problem was. We became really bored of it all!

Tbh, I think it probably serves me right for turning my back on my trusting ally, WordPress. I started to look into Shopping cart plugins and found a few, ending up using eShop. Why I hadn’t thought of this before baffles me! Installation was a doddle , as it always is with WordPress and to use the Cart was simple too (all you have to do is input some criteria and post the product!)

In a nutshell, I would seriously look at the WordPress options before you sign into a premier scheme!

WordPress is King!! (sorry, I should stop blowing smoke up its a*se)

:)

 

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I had to stop and think for a little today at what the internet would be like without Open Source developers. Personally, my life on the web would be rubbish!

I have to give a special mention to the guys who have created WordPress, and those who have created the plethora of add-ons. Also, the troopers who have created Open Office and particularly the PDF creation saving button!

Without you the Internet would not be the playing field it is today. You have, and will continue to, affect and change peoples lives for the better with you invaluable work.

Thank you all :)

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