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E-Commerce with Django

As the year draws to a close, I find myself once again looking at my year long "To Do" list and see a bunch of projects that never got done. Why they didn't get done is anyone's guess. My personal guess would be that I got to busy with clients and never got around to all the personal projects.

One project that I did come across that I think is more than just a personal fun project, is the E-Commerce engine I wanted to build for my T-Shirt site. Currently, my site consists of one lonely entry in a blog and that's about it. No style, no content, and certainly no shirts to sell. In the past I had let Paypal and Google Checkout do all of the order processing for me. I think the site needs a store to go along with the blog and now is an excellent time to talk about building E-Commerce into Django.

Posted: Thursday, December 03, 2009

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Site Rebuilds

Every once in a while I get the rare opportunity to work with someone who has big plans, a great idea, tons of energy and little to no budget. Most of the time I have to decline these projects, but this particular project is near and dear to my heart. Probably because it a family member and they are trying to re-establish themselves on the internet.

We've all heard the horror stories of people taking their businesses online, getting their "buddy" to build the site for them and then never really walking them through the process of updating the site or showing them all the features. Worse yet, is getting someone ( a client) to a certain point and then abandoning them because you've run out of web design skills and programming knowledge.

This is in fact what happened to a family member of mine.

Posted: Monday, July 27, 2009

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PrestaShop Not To Bad

A few days ago I wrote about how a customer of mine was looking for me to implement an Open Source shopping cart for them. In order to do the best job that I could for them, I needed to install the packages on a local server and play with them a little bit. So installed the following and played with them:

• osCommerce
• zen-cart
• OpenCart
• PrestaShop

We already know what I think of OpenCart and Zen-Cart, but this PrestaShop is pretty impressive.

Posted: Friday, July 03, 2009

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Not All Shopping Carts Created Equal

Like many web developers, I often get asked if I can install or configure a website to do e-commerce. Since most business really want to sell you something, I usually end up installing and configuring an Open Source solution like oscommerce. Because it's free, available on most cpanel installations, and has a huge community of contributors, I pick it first for client projects.

This time the scenario is a bit different, I wanted to launch one of my own sites, and didn't want to use oscommerce. Whether or not that turned out to be a good decision is yet to be seen, but I can tell you one thing, and that's that not all Open Source Shopping carts are created equal.

Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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