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Sergiy
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Please post which platform is best in your opinion in term of widgets and being able to upgrade stuff?
. I personally like Mijoshop as it gives you all the performance of Opencart combined with the power of Joomla for a content management systemWhat's best depends on so many things - volume of sales, your skill level, integration with 3rd party systems (fulfilment, ordering, payment gateways and many many more), do you want to host / manage it yourself on your blog / web site, are you selling on Facebook? How much time do you have?
Virtually any system can be made to do what you want it to do, whether it is right for you is the question you need to be considering.
Virtually any system can be made to do what you want it to do, whether it is right for you is the question you need to be considering.
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I'd actually argue OpenCart is first with Prestashop a close second.
http://www.opencart.com/?route=demonstration/demonstration
http://www.opencart.com/?route=demonstration/demonstration
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Darren Street
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Actually CMS don't really lend themselves too well to ecommerce. CMSs need to employ intensive caching routines to improve performance which sort of clashes with the transactional nature of a ecommerce site.
If you don't expect thouands of transactions per day then Tea Commerce for Umbraco is very good and solid.
If you don't expect thouands of transactions per day then Tea Commerce for Umbraco is very good and solid.
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I guess you're talking about WordPress? I'd suggest that WordPress isn't even a CMS, it's a blogging platform. A true CMS is something like www.concrete5.org
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WordPress was designed to be a blogging platform but is often used as CMS in the same way that people who don't know better still use Internet Explorer to browse the Internet.
No need to look at the WordPress showcase, I've worked on enough WordPress sites to be pretty familiar with it
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Faevilangel
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WP started out as a blogging platform but is now a CMS, it's been totally rewritten from it's blog days and now more than capable CMS system.
WP is easier for the end user to use, but C5 is a better developer platform, Joomla and drupal are brilliant for development but not very good on the UI.
Back on topic, for an ecommerce site use an ecommerce system, by using a cms you're just ramming a tractor into a car shell. WP can run as an ecommerce site and be great but it will never be as good as a dedicated ecommerce system.
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It was not without a certain sense of irony that I read a WordPress blog post about how WordPress is more than a blog platform
Their proof is the fact that their website and software application run on WordPress... well of course they do. WordPress is PHP and open source so they can build whatever they want. They could build their accounting software in it, they could build a forum in it, anything. That is the nature of open source, nothing to do with WordPress.
I'd accept it's more of a CMS now than when it started but I would strongly disagree that it's more user friendly than a true CMS like Concrete5.
How do I know? I've given both platforms to clients who would describe themselves IT illiterate. The Concrete5 ones were away and site finished with no help needed. The same wasn't true of WordPress.
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Faevilangel
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It was not without a certain sense of irony that I read a WordPress blog post about how WordPress is more than a blog platform
I'd accept it's more of a CMS now than when it started but I would strongly disagree that it's more user friendly than a true CMS like Concrete5.
How do I know? I've given both platforms to clients who would describe themselves IT illiterate. The Concrete5 ones were away and site finished with no help needed. The same wasn't true of WordPress.
The problem I found with C5 is that it's a "in page" editor, it has a separate admin page if you need it but the majority of stuff (page editing) is done actually in the page rather than in the admin area (where they can test stuff before it goes live).
It's horses for courses though, some prefer WP, others prefer Joomla etc, at the end of the day it's down to what's best for the end user.
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Ah but in-page editing is why it's so user friendly. What client finds it easy to quickly match the page their viewing on the front end to a node in a hierarchical tree buried in the admin? Most tend to find it easier to find the text they want to edit on the website, click it and edit it, in my experience.
Good comment about testing before it goes live, but editing on the page and previewing doesn't put it live. It lets you preview the page how it would look and then you've got the option to Publish, Save or Discard.
Agreed, there are circumstances where any of the platforms are appropriate.
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