Dear kind folk of OcUK, I need your input into the set-up of an ecommerce site.
I have been in software development - from a management perspective for quite some time, however I'm quite out of touch about the latest and greatest web tools available.
The site will be a low volume of sale e-commerce site and my requirements are as follows:
* I want full creative control over the look of the website, including my URL (some free CMS tools create you a subdomain etc)
* Customers need to be able to purchase items from the site (and all the functionality that surrounds a purchase such as email notification, order numbers and so forth)
* Be able to integrate with Payment types such as PayPal but I would also like to be able to allow for Visa and Credit Card payments
* Be able to integrate with social media such as twitter/facebook and RSS feeds
* Ideally I want to be able to build mini Silverlight or Flex applications into the front end (no back end communication to a DB or webservice calls, just a front end app) For example an application that will help you choose the right product for you - you select which image relates more to you out of a choice of them, which will take you onto a next prompt - then finally return the most suitable product. This is a nice-to-have.
* Another nice to have would be the possibility to write a webservice lookup into a third party stock management system. (I will hold no stock, stock will be held at the distributor's warehouse)
Does it sound like I could achieve all/most of this with Wordpress/Joomla and the like?
I have been sent the following link by a web dev friend (who said he doesn't have time to help me out
)
http://freewebstore.org , anyone have experience with this?
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
I have been in software development - from a management perspective for quite some time, however I'm quite out of touch about the latest and greatest web tools available.
The site will be a low volume of sale e-commerce site and my requirements are as follows:
* I want full creative control over the look of the website, including my URL (some free CMS tools create you a subdomain etc)
* Customers need to be able to purchase items from the site (and all the functionality that surrounds a purchase such as email notification, order numbers and so forth)
* Be able to integrate with Payment types such as PayPal but I would also like to be able to allow for Visa and Credit Card payments
* Be able to integrate with social media such as twitter/facebook and RSS feeds
* Ideally I want to be able to build mini Silverlight or Flex applications into the front end (no back end communication to a DB or webservice calls, just a front end app) For example an application that will help you choose the right product for you - you select which image relates more to you out of a choice of them, which will take you onto a next prompt - then finally return the most suitable product. This is a nice-to-have.
* Another nice to have would be the possibility to write a webservice lookup into a third party stock management system. (I will hold no stock, stock will be held at the distributor's warehouse)
Does it sound like I could achieve all/most of this with Wordpress/Joomla and the like?
I have been sent the following link by a web dev friend (who said he doesn't have time to help me out
)http://freewebstore.org , anyone have experience with this?
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
