iloveshop.com, a full-featured retail website w/AJAX and heavily modified ecommerce
flufftronix - June 13, 2007 - 22:19
There was a ton of custom work done for this project, including:
-An AJAX-powered, node-containing wishlist
-UPS Worldship integration
-Prototype.js powered navigational taxonomy-based menu
-Vast amounts of hacking code to get ecommerce modules functioning how one would expect them to
-Content types containing color swatches and a lightbox popup
-Automatic unpublishing of subproducts (and eventually products) when their inventory depletes
There are still some issues to sort out (potential memory leak/memory hogging and a couple more features), but it's about 90% done and has been live for a couple weeks now. This was done by a two person development team over the span of six months or so.
Take a look, let me know what you all think!
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Kewl work
Cool.
I'm in the middle of a project that could be described the same way. Ajax-Heavy eCommerce custom shop.
I've found it hard to find the right handbook for really setting up the eCommerce Suite. Is that 'size' drop-down a result of using sub-product?.
What's powering the 'Wear it With" relationships?
No links from the products to their category page? "More bags"?
Nice use of lightbox. It inspires me.
Feedback -
While I love the sketchy design and total conversion you've achieved with the interface, I'd look for a little more feedback on which bits were interactive and which were decoration. The scroll bar (very nice work, BTW) and the "Add to Cart" button just don't look "Click Me" enough. I can figure it out, bucause I'm used to web UIs, but just a small hover effect would maybe help a lot.
I love the header styling, especially the search box ... but clicking 'search' doesn't work! (for me in FF) . Yes, pressing Enter does, but that word looks about as clickable as the rest of the UI, and would be expected behaviour.
I'm not sure what the 'size' drop down is supposed to achieve in http://www.iloveshop.com/agapantha03n but I can't add that thing to the cart.
- don't take these comments negatively, they are just a bit of user feedback on things you may not have noticed. I know what it's like to get so close to your own design.
Overall, I think the toatl customization you've done is very impressive.
.dan.
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Hi Dan, thanks for the
Hi Dan, thanks for the feedback!
What's powering the 'Wear it With" relationships?
That's node relationship for CCK. All the content from other nodes (swatches and wear it with stuff) is actually the same CCK teaser with different stuff excluded via CSS.
Nice use of lightbox. It inspires me.
Thanks! We toyed around with a couple different options and decided lightbox was definitely the best way to go.
No links from the products to their category page? "More bags"?
We were working on breadcrumbs for a little while, but for some reason they act wonky on our install. Some sorta little snippet instead is a good workaround, though.
I've found it hard to find the right handbook for really setting up the eCommerce Suite. Is that 'size' drop-down a result of using sub-product?.
Yup.
While I love the sketchy design and total conversion you've achieved with the interface, I'd look for a little more feedback on which bits were interactive and which were decoration. The scroll bar (very nice work, BTW) and the "Add to Cart" button just don't look "Click Me" enough. I can figure it out, bucause I'm used to web UIs, but just a small hover effect would maybe help a lot.
I would agree about a hover effect for sure, but this is a site that I don't have the final say on stuff like that, it's a contracted job and designed to client specifications. And check on that scroll bar again in a couple days—we put a cookie in there to remember which page you're on and where the handle's at—just deployed it a little quickly and noticed a MSIE bug that had to get fixed first..
I love the header styling, especially the search box ... but clicking 'search' doesn't work! (for me in FF) . Yes, pressing Enter does, but that word looks about as clickable as the rest of the UI, and would be expected behaviour.
It was never coded to be a submit button. But actually, It definitely could be.. same with the email list box. Never thought of that! :)
I'm not sure what the 'size' drop down is supposed to achieve in http://www.iloveshop.com/agapantha03n but I can't add that thing to the cart.
That there would be a bug.. someone bought that necklace and the subproduct seems to have successfully unpublished, but it looks like the master product is still lingering about. D'oh!
very unusual design
I'm very impressed with your very unusual design.
Altought, I must admit that some of navigation elements, are not very "readable" - for example "Add to chard" is very simpatic, but it's a bit hard to find it on the page (in my case more than 4 s).
Generally, excellent work.
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Agree
Nice to see so much visual eye candy but it would frustrate me if I were trying to buy lots of stuff. I guess you also might want to considering hosting it elsewhere as it's been down more than it's been up for me.
Our host had a lot of DNS
Our host had a lot of DNS issues yesterday, and in general the site's using way too much memory and the VPS is killing Apache as a reult.. I've been trying to figure out why (it's currently at around 35mb on page load.. yikes!). Should be a bit more stable now, though.
Altought, I must admit that
Altought, I must admit that some of navigation elements, are not very "readable"
I'll say that if I were doing the art direction on this project, it wouldn't look quite as unusual..