Interspire Shopping Cart Blog

User Interface

I've looked at a *lot* of eCommerce solutions while building StoreSuite, and the one thing that 99.99% of them lack is usability - that is, they aren't easy to use. This is especially true when it comes to integrating shipping providers. Why should it be hard to integrate shipping into your eCommerce shop?...
Design mode is now finished. I've added a toolbar which makes saving changes easier. You can also now remove panels on the fly, so you can completely customize the layout of every page in your StoreSuite store...
I spent about 20 hours over the weekend working on design mode for StoreSuite. Design mode allows you to change the layout of your shop by dragging and dropping panels where you want them to appear...
I've just finished the product reviews section of StoreSuite. You fill out the product review form as usual, however to prevent spam you have the option of using a CAPTCHA image on the review form...
All eCommerce sites involve selling. The ability to compare 2 or more products side-by-side is an important feature for any eCommerce software. StoreSuite includes a neat product comparison engine that can be used to compare, sort and dynamically remove products from the comparison table as needed...
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...
I've built a few eCommerce sites in my time, and one thing I know is that if you ask 5 people to use the site, they will generally shop in one of 5 different ways: by category, by impulse, by search, by brand or by price. I spent Friday implement the algorithms and design for the Shop by Price panel in StoreSuite...
I've just spent the last few hours building a tag cloud panel for StoreSuite. It appears when you're shopping by brand, so it's contextually relevant - if you choose to view products grouped by brand, you'd want to see a tag cloud for the other brands, right?...

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This blog was started to talk about the development of Interspire Shopping Cart, our PHP/MySQL eCommerce solution that will be released in March 2008. Every few days I'll post a progress update, answer common questions, etc.

If you're frustrated by the current lack of usable eCommerce solutions and want to run an eCommerce site for yourself or one of your clients then feel free to request a feature by replying to any of my posts.

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