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I have a brand new customer that's a total virgin to the Internet and ecommerce.... I have limited knowledge of specific shopping cart software and I realize that you can't give a specific recomendation for specific software.....
they started with a couple dozen strikes against them attempting to utilize "a friends" hosting for their site...
I became involved about 5 days ago, and begin to configure "things"...
A lot of things simply failed to function properly, the "host" offered to resolve some of the issues by doing things himself. (example: the Paypal module would not accept any changes from the default setup. Attempting to change data resulted in nothing...the changes would not stick) The host offered to changed it for us in the backend to resolve out issue... (sheesh, fix it....don't put a bandaid on it...)
I've been around the block long enough to recognize red flags when they slap me in the face...
I believe that this version of OSC is dated from 2003, without knowing about later updates I could probably guess it's a couple versions behind...
The turning point was today, I noticed that page titles were the same for all pages and began to look into this shortcoming (AKA: "website killer").
Is the page title issue an issue in the current version of OSC (2.2 I think). If so, is there an alternative, I can't believe that something so important as a page title is given so little attention by this package...
are all the ecomm packages like this, I doubt it..perhaps the version I looked at was so old that they didn't care about that back then...
we're leaving the current host Monday...I can find a host, but I need to have granular control over the pages and content. Will the current version of OSC make me happy?
Thanks for your time!
Tera
Visa maintains a list of PABP Certified applications on their site: [usa.visa.com...]
If you can wait, check out Magento
They're supposed to release a "non beta" copy in the next month or two. Looks pretty promising...
[edited by: lorax at 12:50 pm (utc) on Mar. 8, 2008]
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This must be done before the site goes live so that search engines never get to see all those duff URLs.
We're moving ahead to a current version of OSC that should be ready to go by Monday morning...
I've spent most of my weekend (so far) with my nose in the OSC forums...and I believe that I can handle the various changes that will be needed.
Thanks again!
Tera
have you considered writing your own cart ?
It took me 3 whole minutes to stop laughing...:)
that aspect eludes me, I can usually scan the code and figure out what section of code concerns "whatever I'm looking for"...but an ecom site from scratch is totally out of my realm...
I've watched 16 year old kids whip out some code in 60 seconds, then turn and say "now you can launch ballistic missles from your blackberry, just click here" and then they zoom away on their skateboards...
I just don't have that particular knack...
(wish I did...Maybe the Code Fairy will pop by my house tonight and whack me on the head and in the morning I'll write the first Web 3.0 app....)
(thanks for the idea.....)
Pffft. How true.
It's pain in the ass to customize, it's badly written, and its default graphical buttons are awful...
But you can play with it, customize it, have it running from the day one. It's much better than having to write own cart from scratch.
