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Stretchwickster
Programmer
This may or may not be of interest to you due to the size constraints, but my first dabblings with e-commerce involved the use of Actinic Catalog LE (free on a magazine cover!). LE stands for Lite Edition and provides for stores with no more than 25 products to sell! As it happened the e-shop I was setting up was a sideline for the business and they were only interested in selling a few products.
I was quite impressed with Actinic Catalog LE though, despite its limitations. You install the application on a desktop machine, configure a myriad of settings (including page templates), preview your e-shop, then upload your e-shop to your server - all within the interface provided.
It seemed to do what we wanted at the time (and was relatively intuitive for an e-commerce novice like myself), and the more expensive versions are probably much more scalable. I remember it being very easy to link in a PayPal Business account to receive payments.
Hope this is of some use.
Clive
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"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." (Paul Ehrlich)
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I was quite impressed with Actinic Catalog LE though, despite its limitations. You install the application on a desktop machine, configure a myriad of settings (including page templates), preview your e-shop, then upload your e-shop to your server - all within the interface provided.
It seemed to do what we wanted at the time (and was relatively intuitive for an e-commerce novice like myself), and the more expensive versions are probably much more scalable. I remember it being very easy to link in a PayPal Business account to receive payments.
Hope this is of some use.
Clive
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"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." (Paul Ehrlich)
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To get the best answers from this forum see: faq102-5096
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Yes, I've dabbled with the demo version on past occassions.
The reason I'm asking is I have a potential client that already uses Actinic Catalog via their hosting company.
They want to redo their site and I'm not sure that I will be able to deliver all that they want, visually/designwise within the Actinic system.
From what I have seen with the current demo version, it is possible to totally modify the site templates. However. this is going to be a very long winded process as I won't really be able to work from any of the built in templates. This is what worries me.
Thanks for the input.
<honk>*:O)</honk>
Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.
The reason I'm asking is I have a potential client that already uses Actinic Catalog via their hosting company.
They want to redo their site and I'm not sure that I will be able to deliver all that they want, visually/designwise within the Actinic system.
From what I have seen with the current demo version, it is possible to totally modify the site templates. However. this is going to be a very long winded process as I won't really be able to work from any of the built in templates. This is what worries me.
Thanks for the input.
<honk>*:O)</honk>
Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.
Stretchwickster
Programmer
The version I was using wasn't a demo version, it was a full version (worth £X) that you would normally pay Actinic for - the only limit was on number of products.
I must say it was a long-winded process to find the appropriate template to modify!
Maybe you could:
(a) ask the client to supply the folder of templates that they use currently, as I believe they all reside in one common place (probably in subfolders of a main folder).
(b) buy Actinic Catalog LE or the most expensive version you can afford (or use a trial version)
(c) copy client's templates into Actinic and then you can preview them more easily using Actinic.
Clive
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"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." (Paul Ehrlich)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To get the best answers from this forum see: faq102-5096
I must say it was a long-winded process to find the appropriate template to modify!
Maybe you could:
(a) ask the client to supply the folder of templates that they use currently, as I believe they all reside in one common place (probably in subfolders of a main folder).
(b) buy Actinic Catalog LE or the most expensive version you can afford (or use a trial version)
(c) copy client's templates into Actinic and then you can preview them more easily using Actinic.
Clive
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"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." (Paul Ehrlich)
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To get the best answers from this forum see: faq102-5096
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The version are another confusing aspect.
I think we would probably end up buying Actinic Designer for our use in house and the client would need to buy Actinic Business (they want to integrate Sage etc).
It's still pretty affordable, I thought it would cost more.
The main worry is how flexible it is in relation to creating completely custom sites.
<honk>*:O)</honk>
Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.
I think we would probably end up buying Actinic Designer for our use in house and the client would need to buy Actinic Business (they want to integrate Sage etc).
It's still pretty affordable, I thought it would cost more.
The main worry is how flexible it is in relation to creating completely custom sites.
<honk>*:O)</honk>
Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.
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