Woocommerce Responsive Theme

[Tbozz]

I'm going through the process of redesigning my website, which is built on woocommerce.
Been advised the use divi framework from www.elegantthemes.com because it can be customised for different types of shops according to the user's requirement.

Anyone used this before? What are your thoughts
I want to be able to make proper informed decision.
Cheers

 

[fisicx]

Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!

Avoid Divi and anything else form Elegant Themes.

Use Google images and search for 'Woocommerce themes'. There are loads to choose from. But your problem isn't the theme, it's whole way you categorise, display and market the products.

I do remember saying I'd do a website review for you and then forgot. Apologies for that, do you still want one?

 

[Tbozz]

Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!

Avoid Divi and anything else form Elegant Themes.

Use Google images and search for 'Woocommerce themes'. There are loads to choose from. But your problem isn't the theme, it's whole way you categorise, display and market the products.

I do remember saying I'd do a website review for you and then forgot. Apologies for that, do you still want one?

Will really appreciate if you can do a website review.
I want to make sure that I get it right this time

 

[Tbozz]

@fisicx
when likely can you do the review? thanks again for your help

 

[dmsims]

Why avoid Divi ?

 

[Tbozz]

Why avoid Divi ?

@fisicx is an expert on wordpress, i'm still waiting for his review, hopefully he will shed more light on pitfalls of using DIVI.

Have you used Divi and whats your thoughts about it please?

 

[dmsims]

@Tbozz

Divi plays nicely with Woocommerce and support is excellent but there is an element of "lock in" by that I mean it's difficult to switch

It's also just a theme (without bundled plugins) which I find an advantage because the license for those plugins is with the theme developer not you and just look what happened with Revolution slider - a lot of sites got hacked

on your site why is this file so big - it's nearly 1Mb ?
https://www.kisshairextensions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bgswish.png
If you run it through Tinyjpg you can cut the size in half

 

[Tbozz]

on your site why is this file so big - it's nearly 1Mb ?
https://www.kisshairextensions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bgswish.png
If you run it through Tinyjpg you can cut the size in half

Got no clue, don't know much about web design hence why im here....
lots of stuff with the website

 

[dmsims]

Sure the Onestop webshop should know the answer ??

 

[fisicx]

@fisicx is an expert on wordpress, i'm still waiting for his review

Done: http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/threads/feedback-and-opinion-appreciated.365796/#post-2706912

 

[Tbozz]

OnestopWebshop is winding down the business.
They would have done the work....

 

[antropy]

I'm going through the process of redesigning my website, which is built on woocommerce.

Could it be the right time to consider using OpenCart instead?

 

[dmsims]

I think there are a lot of issues that are nothing to do with the platform

Opencart seem hell bent is destroying their own product ATM

 

[antropy]

Opencart seem hell bent is destroying their own product ATM

Interesting perspective. What in particular do you think they've done wrong lately?

 

[dmsims]

Lack of a working upgrade path or ANY documentation

The complete and utter debacle over the extension store "upgrade"

 

[antropy]

Lack of a working upgrade path

It has always been a bit tricky to upgrade OpenCart but this isn't a new thing.

or ANY documentation

What's this then? http://docs.opencart.com/

The complete and utter debacle over the extension store "upgrade"

The extension store is now fully working as far as I can tell?

 

[dmsims]

Upgrade documentation ?

After weeks of issues the extension store is getting there - BUT do you cripple a live system and then do development work on the fly on a live system?

I did like Opencart

 

[antropy]

Upgrade documentation ?

http://docs.opencart.com/upgrading/

After weeks of issues the extension store is getting there - BUT do you cripple a live system and then do development work on the fly on a live system?

It was always possible to continue buying extensions and support was available during the entire time. There were minor issues with the comment system and the number of sales indicator but everything else was functional and we purchased (and sold) various extensions throughout.

How many live upgrades to a complex system have you deployed without issue?

I did like Opencart

I've answered all your points above and they're minor at worst.

Also ... show me a better system?

 

[dmsims]

I see you dogded the upgrade documentation question

How many live upgrades to a complex system have you deployed without issue?

Many that's my job - If it doesn't work(ish) - it doesn't go live but then we actually try and test it beforehand
As I said on the forum it was competent and if Daniel worked for me he would have been fired

Anyway we are way off topic, I think the Opencart team need to learn from this and hopefully get their act together

 

[antropy]

I see you dogded the upgrade documentation question

No, I posted a link to it, re-read

How many live upgrades to a complex system have you deployed without issue?

Many that's my job - If it doesn't work(ish) - it doesn't go live but then we actually try and test it beforehand

Okay so you understand that little issues are pretty common - and in this case as I said it was just the comment system and sales counter. They didn't really affect too much.

As I said on the forum it was competent and if Daniel worked for me he would have been fired

It sounds to me like Daniel has upset you somehow, and yes he can be quite blunt on the forums etc. but that's only because of his passion for what he does. Linus Torvalds is known to be the same and people have learnt to accept it.

 

[Tbozz]

Thanks guys, i don't really want to change to a different eCommerce platform, we only sell a mono product with different variants so woo-commerce is adequate.

 

[webhostuk]

Have you tried searching on themeforest? lots of choice available.