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| Matt Silberstein 2005-08-29, 7:28 pm |
| On 26 Aug 2005 08:12:17 -0700, in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
, "Christian Winter" <cwinter@XXXXXXXXXX> in
<1125069137.494387.82170@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> wrote:
>I would search on the web. There are tons of commerical scripts out
>there and I am 100% certain there are tons of people selling out of the
>box store scripts. Staples and Best Buy will likely not have those. ;)
Any recommendations, for or against? I always prefer buy to build and
I am setting up a store or two at the moment.
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| arccos 2005-08-29, 7:28 pm |
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Matt Silberstein wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2005 08:12:17 -0700, in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
> , "Christian Winter" <cwinter@XXXXXXXXXX> in
> <1125069137.494387.82170@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Any recommendations, for or against? I always prefer buy to build and
> I am setting up a store or two at the moment.
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While I don't have a recommendation for a specific package, I would
suggest looking into Ecommerce solutions that are already developed. A
good one will be cheaper, more stable, more feature rich, and quicker
to set up than a custom build. Unless there is a specific reason or
feature you want that you cannot find, there's plenty of flexible
solutions to choose from.
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| Lavarock 2005-08-29, 7:28 pm |
| Matt Silberstein wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2005 08:12:17 -0700, in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
> , "Christian Winter" <cwinter@XXXXXXXXXX> in
> <1125069137.494387.82170@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Any recommendations, for or against? I always prefer buy to build and
> I am setting up a store or two at the moment.
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Although not boxed sets, here are a couple of alternatives. I have used
both OsCommerce and Zen-Cart and have the following observations.
Both are licensed under GNU (Open Source) so are free to use, with
certain exceptions.
Either may be available for installation via control panel on certain
webhost companies. Combined, they run thousands of stores. OsCommerce
shows 5,000 active stores in the links, but there are 68,000 community
members so I think the number of people using the software is a lot higher.
OsCommerce (OSC) is in use by more sites than Zen-Cart. Zen-Cart is an
offshoot of OSC with the idea to incorporate all of the usual goodies
and make installation fairly simple and easy.
They are similar enough that once you know one, the other is very simple
to change and adjust. However, modules written for one will not
automatically work on the other software. There may be simple changes to
accomplish that though.
Even with Zen-Cart it helps to know a bit of PHP and have editing skills.
My ItsKona site below uses Zen-Cart.
http://oscommerce.com/
http://zen-cart.com/modules/frontpage/
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| Matt Silberstein 2005-08-29, 7:28 pm |
| On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:21:28 GMT, in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design , Lavarock
<lavarock1@myhawaiiansite.com> in
<c7KQe.3269$Wd7.2536@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> wrote:
>Matt Silberstein wrote:
>Although not boxed sets, here are a couple of alternatives. I have used
>both OsCommerce and Zen-Cart and have the following observations.
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>Both are licensed under GNU (Open Source) so are free to use, with
>certain exceptions.
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>Either may be available for installation via control panel on certain
>webhost companies. Combined, they run thousands of stores. OsCommerce
>shows 5,000 active stores in the links, but there are 68,000 community
>members so I think the number of people using the software is a lot higher.
>
>OsCommerce (OSC) is in use by more sites than Zen-Cart. Zen-Cart is an
>offshoot of OSC with the idea to incorporate all of the usual goodies
>and make installation fairly simple and easy.
>
>They are similar enough that once you know one, the other is very simple
>to change and adjust. However, modules written for one will not
>automatically work on the other software. There may be simple changes to
>accomplish that though.
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>Even with Zen-Cart it helps to know a bit of PHP and have editing skills.
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>My ItsKona site below uses Zen-Cart.
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>http://oscommerce.com/
>http://zen-cart.com/modules/frontpage/
Thanks. I had heard about those, but getting a vote of confidence is
nice. The next thing to find out is if someone is using them on my
host.
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Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
Genocide is news | Be A Witness
http://www.beawitness.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
www.darfurgenocide.org
Save Darfur.org :: Violence and Suffering in Sudan's Darfur Region
http://www.savedarfur.org/
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