I'm not totally opposed to using Magento, though I can see my
comments, especially if it's what the client wants.
I have been looking over the site and it does have a lot of
features so I can see it saving some serious time, especially
given the extras he wants.
So Nathan, having used it, do you have any tips for a Magento
newbie when it comes to integrating it with a custom site?
I haven't found any integration documentation for programmers yet.
Skip
Nathan Nobbe wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Skip Evans <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
Why spend ages reinventing the wheel?
i whole heartedly agree.
I've come across so many clients using third party carts who have
been unhappy with the final results. I hear so often "It does eighty
percent of what we need, but we do things like this [insert
idiosyncratic business practice here]."
thats why a lot of the modern incarnations have embraced the concept of
modularization, eg. plugins / skins etc. etc.
just look back a os-commerce / zen-cart; the notion of skins they had
was horrific, basically since the ui was intertwined w/ logic, skins
were tied to revs of the application - ouch! the community has matured
a lot since then from what i gather.
And then getting a third party cart to do what they wanted was often
either incredibly frustrating/time consuming, or often just not doable.
i think in most cases, anymore, youre mainly looking at ramp-up time on
how to use / customize / extend an existing third party system. while
that can be sucky, you should really weigh the trade-off between that
and getting beaten over the head w/ requests to develop the most common
place look-and-feel customization crap / features. ive started to lean
towards the former in my personal career, having come from zealous
devotion to the later in my initial years in the industry.
Yes, writing a cart takes time, but I've found I can whip them out
pretty easily, and I have a lot of code I reuse all the time. I
pretty much have a complete basic cart stored away, but I
intentionally keep its functionality to a minimum so that I can
expand on it to their specifications.
ok, well, when your custom cart has all the features of magento / [your
fav e-commerce platform here] let me know. ill have finished up the
proprietary plugins that make my site unique and have forgotten pretty
much everything about silly crap id never want to write - like custom
look at feel, crm, reports etc etc.
o and also, when you have as many users / devs hitting your codebase as
some of the popular platforms, im interested in hearing about that as
well, lol.
-nathan
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