Michael Watterson wrote:
>>>> Embed Inc is a good example of what Olin's ideal site would look like:
>>> Not at all.  That part of the site was done a bunch of years ago.  We=20
>>> had
>>> a
>>> business guy who decided the web site needed sprucing up, so he hired=20
>>> this
>>> web guy he knew.  Now of course both are gone and I'm stuck with the=20
>>> front
>>> part of the site I can't maintain.
>> I know exactly how it feels. :-( Although I consider it just another cos=
t=20
>> of
>> doing business. I can't do everything myself, so I must delegate. It=20
>> helps
>> to have a fall-back plan in place.
>>
>>
>>> It's a mess.  One time I wanted to just
>>> add or even replace a single menu entry with something else, but the=20
>>> HTML
>>> was a mess and the buttons were actually images.  Note the link at the
>>> bottom of this message does not point to the main page, but rather a=20
>>> part
>>> I
>>> can maintain.
>> There are off-the-shelf shopping carts out there, that are pretty good.
>>
>> Vitaliy
>>
> Any better free ones than OScommerce, Xen Cart  and plug-ins for
> Wordpress or Drupal?
>
> I'm still looking :-)

We use Magento. My biggest gripe about it is that the backend is slow.=20
Otherwise, it is very well done (previously, we were using OSc).

Vitaliy

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