Moving on up from OSCommerce?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:10 pm
Hey guys, please bear with me. I'm a designer, not a developer, and have been hired to revamp a friend's mid-sized eCommerce site. My husbands' the developer - but has his own workload bearing down on him. Hence, I turn to you!
The site is http://www.scrap4life.com
In addition to a complete overhaul of the interface, we've got some major issues to deal with. The most menacing being her shopping cart, which is currently OSCommerce. I downloaded the entire site last night, and went through the code with my husband this morning - just to get his professional assesment of the situation before moving forward on my own. I won't go into detail, but he was shaking his head the whole time.
He says OSCommerce is written poorly, and that it's not a good idea to use opensource shopping carts for any eCommerce site with big plans for expansion. The owner DOES have big plans, and as you can see - she's already got a whole mess of product in the database. One of the dominant issues her site faces ATM is how sluggish (and moody) the cart is. A lot of the time, pages won't load until you refresh a few times, and certain items won't add to cart no matter how long you wait ... what's up with that??
So anyway, my hubby is telling me that I seriously need to push for a complete conversion to ASP.net. The store owner *is* willing, but it's more of an undertaking than I've got time & patience for ATM, plus there's a handful of issues on the table that require the site to be live & fully functional in the coming weeks/months. So, all things considered, I'm wondering if we should just purchase a non-opensource PHP shopping cart for the time being? And if so:
1) Which one? (pros/cons)
2) What's the best (most painless) way to transfer ALL that product over?
In addition, if anyone's bored out of their minds and wants to poke around that site, I'm SO open to suggestions! It's a mess ... she's running OSCommerce, PHPbb, and PHP PhotoPost ... all requiring seperate logins :b
Thanks in advance!!
The site is http://www.scrap4life.com
In addition to a complete overhaul of the interface, we've got some major issues to deal with. The most menacing being her shopping cart, which is currently OSCommerce. I downloaded the entire site last night, and went through the code with my husband this morning - just to get his professional assesment of the situation before moving forward on my own. I won't go into detail, but he was shaking his head the whole time.
He says OSCommerce is written poorly, and that it's not a good idea to use opensource shopping carts for any eCommerce site with big plans for expansion. The owner DOES have big plans, and as you can see - she's already got a whole mess of product in the database. One of the dominant issues her site faces ATM is how sluggish (and moody) the cart is. A lot of the time, pages won't load until you refresh a few times, and certain items won't add to cart no matter how long you wait ... what's up with that??
So anyway, my hubby is telling me that I seriously need to push for a complete conversion to ASP.net. The store owner *is* willing, but it's more of an undertaking than I've got time & patience for ATM, plus there's a handful of issues on the table that require the site to be live & fully functional in the coming weeks/months. So, all things considered, I'm wondering if we should just purchase a non-opensource PHP shopping cart for the time being? And if so:
1) Which one? (pros/cons)
2) What's the best (most painless) way to transfer ALL that product over?
In addition, if anyone's bored out of their minds and wants to poke around that site, I'm SO open to suggestions! It's a mess ... she's running OSCommerce, PHPbb, and PHP PhotoPost ... all requiring seperate logins :b
Thanks in advance!!