our new VM site
http://www.placedesenseignants.com
Our store is based upon VM1.1.3/Joomla1.5. We had lots of tasks/bugs/glitches to tackle but are now confident in our code base. After much testing we also selected a few really efficient extensions (after all not so much are useful and some are crappy).
All bundled, our process is now pretty much automated and comfortable.
As an after-job-done, I just want to lay on the "paper" some thoughts about building a VM ecommerce:
- do not hesitate to copy and tweak default VM theme/ idem for Joomla template
- CSVI for automated process of products/pricing publishing
- sh404sef. really efficient for SEO.
- to display categories of product, we rely on category description to either display a customised html, either the classical shop browse product list.
- we have made an intense use of product type parameters. that is useful to enable filters on product combined with cherry_picker/breadz extensions for UI display (those 2 extensions had to be tweaked/fixed in good parts to become great extensions but their concept is really good i think).
- we use metamod extension to control precisely when and where we display some modules.
- we also found xmap, yoo_login, cssjscompress, cc_newsletter, magiczoom_plus to be neat and handy
All this "montage" was somehow painful to build. But I would say it was for a big part due to us making some choices first that revealed erroneous after some time developping it. To sum up, we now have a clear vision but at the start we were kind of lost in the extended possibilities of this platform.
Thx to the team.
Kudos bobi
Very impressed with your site!
I take it you made a modifcation to the sh404sef module so that it works with the cherry picker?
Any chance you could share the code it would help me alot!
Many Thanks
Dave
Really nice done !
How did you make the nice registration page with the select images and defaults to new customer ?
Cheers
//C
Quote from: clinden on October 07, 2010, 14:03:48 PM
Really nice done !
How did you make the nice registration page with the select images and defaults to new customer ?
Cheers
//C
Can all be changed in login_registration.tpl file.
How did you get sh404sef to work on your site... mine only works on the home page & then had to turn it off because none of the other pages were showing correctly