Hi everyone. As many of you know, we've been planning to release a PHP eCommerce solution for a while now. Other things have taken priority recently (such as SendStudio NX, WebEdit NX and ArticleLive NX) and as such StoreSuite development kind of... well... stopped.

The good news is that development has started again, and I am focusing on StoreSuite full time. Development is about 60% complete and I thought it would be a good idea to blog about the process we're making towards a beta release every couple of days.

Since the last time I worked on StoreSuite our entire template system has changed and we've upgraded to a "prettier" Web 2.0 layout. Here's how the old StoreSuite default template looked:



... and here's how the new "Web 2.0" template looks (it's still a BIG work in progress):



I'm working on the user interface and design of StoreSuite NX, and Rod will be giving me a huge hand with the server-side code. I've been developing in PHP for about 7 years now, however we have some pretty complex MySQL and PostgreSQL queries in StoreSuite and that's where Rod is a genius, so I guess you can call StoreSuite a join-venture between Rod and I!

I'll be posting updates every week or so, and also asking for your feedback on various aspects of StoreSuite as required, so make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed so you don't miss any updates.

Talk to you with another update in a few days...