Your Fave ecommerce site

[azpro]

begra.nl/magazijnstellingen/legbordstelling/metalen-legbordstellingen-light-duty/light-duty-legbordstelling-voordeelrijen

Clean - simple - filtering - Mega menu - Ship in cart - Clean and Easy check-out etc.etc

[tessthepup]

@burt @ecartz

I dont think looking at individual retail sites is the way forward as that can open a can of worms.

Personally I would look at other opensource carts and compare why they are so popular in terms of design, features and useability

[ecartz]

1. Are they popular? WooCommerce is more popular than the next twenty carts, because it's integrated with WordPress. Not because of design.
2. There's more than one design per platform. We have two or three, all from Burt.
3. If we make a design that looks like other open source carts, then we're just chasing them.

This is Burt's thing rather than mine, but I would agree. People don't like software platforms; they like sites. So we need to collect information on what people like about sites. Because people make cart platforms look very different from site to site.

We might easily find that the top sites are not using the top platforms. For example, Amazon.com is pretty popular, with higher usage than even WooCommerce. Amazon is not using an open source shopping cart software. Of course, Amazon is popular more because of network effects than design.

[burt]

I'm almost certain that a non-technical person who finds a site that looks good to their eye (or maybe even part of a site, eg a nice widget, or page) and asking them to post about it ... is far less onerous than asking that same person to compare Phoenix to another open source cart.

We need to get more shopowners to have their (non technical) say on the way forward.
What do you like about a site you have found?

If any shopowners are technical, I'm also ... all ears ... for any advice, criticiism, feedback etc.

[lambro28]

currently running v1.0.8.0, but just downloaded v1.1.0.6 and beginning work on that.
First thing for me is to be able to easily change colours of the template. Most WYSIWYG / AI sites allow you to pick the design, the change the colours to suit. For example back ground, text, buttons, hoover, etc.

Failing that I am struggling to even find the basic template, but I am guessing it is all standard bootstrap. Would be nice to have a sample template users can edit to suit

[burt]

It is all standard bootstrap and is 100% template-able.
Just use the /override/ template for example, which is found at /templates/override/
Or make your own template from scratch.

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Somewhat interesting thread:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2825

[burt]

I dont think looking at individual retail sites is the way forward as that can open a can of worms.

I'm almost certain that a non-technical person who finds a site that looks good to their eye (or maybe even part of a site, eg a nice widget, or page)

Interestingly, a recent project I did, came from exactly this. A shopowner found a "widget" on a site that he really liked and thought would be incredibly useful for his site.

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3028

[lambro28]

It is all standard bootstrap and is 100% template-able.
Just use the /override/ template for example, which is found at /templates/override/
Or make your own template from scratch.

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Somewhat interesting thread:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2825

I understand the templates, but my point is the templates are blank to begin with. So I took my css file from my current site and dumped it in override. Only a few things are carried over and work.
I am not clever with css, so I have to start again and find what each element is called before I can change it to my needs. Not user friendly, which I thought you were looking for ideas to make it so.

[burt]

In this thread I'm looking for URLs of sites that anyone thinks is exceptional.
Or parts of sites, like widgets, pages, features or whatever.

So that I can make some templates, or addons or whatever.

[14Steve14]

Not really a favourite site, but one that I visit quite often is https://railsofsheffield.com/

I always wonder what to do with the front page of our website as it is an under developed and under used page and one that not many visitors tends to visit. I like their site as they have something similar to the featured products module we have, but it lists and shows recent or selected products in some on their main categories. It just makes the page useful.

I also like that they have a pre-order system. It allows customers to add out of stock, awaiting delivery, or not yet released products into a basket and then goes through the checkout system but does not actually take the card payment, it just records the card detail ready for when the item is back in stock. Once the item is in stock the payment is taken and any other item remain in the pre-order basket. Not too sure many would need that feature though. Not too sure how things are covered with saving the card details or what ever they do though, and the risks involved in storing that information.

It has a mega menu type thing that lists all the sub categories allowing quick finding of products in a horizontal menu, which I think is not that different to the horizontal menu we can use. I certainly adjusted one to show 2 categories deep on my test site.

Pretty much everything we can do on our products pages but I do like the way the lefthand part of the page is almost like a blockquote type thing with all the extra information, which again keeps the essential information handy. I do something sim Its the same I think that we have product tags available which they use extensively.

Its pretty much a typical shopify store which you can find hundreds of online, and I don't think there is much that they have that is any different to what Phoenix can already do.