I think the most important parts of any eCommerce site are the search quality and the product pages. I've spent the last few days building the basic foundation of the product pages in StoreSuite and it's such a difficult job, because there are SO MANY variables that have to be taken into consideration on the products page. Here's a few of them:

• Is the product currently on sale?
• Is it a physical or digital product?
• Is the shipping price static or dynamic?
• Are there any custom fields for this product? (Show under "Other Details" in the video below)
• Are there any product reviews? If there are more than the number of reviews to show per page them implement review paging
• Have any related products been setup? If so show and populate the "You Recently Viewed..." panel
• Setup and display the panel containing a list of recently viewed products
• Does this product have options? If so display them on the "Add to Cart" panel
  
• Build the breadcrumb trail that shows how you got to the page (this took an entire day)

I am currently researching a way to include social marketing and social networking aspects to the products page, because these things can't be ignored - ESPECIALLY in an eCommerce application.

We will be including the usual social networking bookmark functions, but I also want to include some other useful social functions into the StoreSuite products page (which of course can be disabled).

Which social networking/marketing features would YOU like to see in an eCommerce solution? I'm taking specific social networking and marketing requests for the rest of the week. Just post a comment below...

On yeah, and here's the video of the product pages.