Hi Mike:
On 4/19/12 2:17 PM, Mike wrote:
BTW, I agree with Mike (I think it was Mike) who said something like: It
is really nice to see OFBiz
consultancies using OFBiz. I'm just going to add - Thanks for doing this.
OK: I'm not a consultant, however soon I may employ one. When I see a
firm using OFBiz for their OWN corporate website, that tells me that they
are willing to eat their own dogfood, and I'm impressed by that. It also
tells me that they REALLY understand OFBiz's own CMS capabilities (I
don't), which gives me confidence in the firm. Basically, show me that you
can do.
Funny you should say "willing to eat their own dogfood". I had that very
line on the MyOFBiz.com site awhile back and someone pointed out to me
that it originated with Microsoft. Of course, after hearing that, I took
it off the site right then and there :-)
Seriously, I agree with you. I doubt that Microsoft uses PHP and MySQL
for any of their customer facing systems. Why would a consulting
company, specializing in OFBiz not use OFBiz?
For the longest time you would have been hard pressed to find an OFBiz
service provider using OFBiz to sell OFBiz based consulting services. I
really never understood how they thought this was a good marketing
strategy. Even today, this is the case.
Also, it tells me what MY future business is capable of, because the last
thing I want to do is support another CMS solution, with another technology
(PHP), with another database, and another consultant.
I think Paul's website (http://www.ilscipio.com) looks great and
professional, just as good as any Magento based website. Impressive.
I do too. His team did a great job. A credit to the OFBiz community.
When people ask me about reference sites, I will be suggesting they look
at this site.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Ruth Hoffman<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Paul:
Congratulations! Really nice site. Very clean lines and the one page
checkout works! I do like your anonymous checkout. Easy to follow, concise
and does the job.
[FYI - I'm trying to come to grips with this on the MyOFBiz.com site. On
my site - like yours - initially I didn't want anyone have to register to
buy a product. So, if you checkout anonymously an account is automatically
created for you when the order is created. AFTER the return from a
successful PayPal payment, the PayPal email address is used to create the
login id. The login id is the PayPal email address and I check to make sure
that the buyer's PayPal address isn't already known to the system. If it
is, then I don't create another login. The reason I did this is because I
don't want users to have to create yet another login on my site.]
Here's the problem - and it has nothing to do with OFBiz, but everything
to do with the way I notify users of a successful/paid purchase: Every
once-in-a-while a buyer has a "bad" PayPal email account address or the
myofbiz.com domain is blacklisted on the buyer's side. So, the buyer
doesn't get notification of account creation/activation. I'm now struggling
with the best way to handle this as I don't want to force my buyers to
create/login to an account prior to payment. But I might have to pretty
soon here.You won't have this problem because you don't need to verify they
paid.
Sorry about stealing your thunder....but maybe you have some thoughts from
a design perspective on how to handle this since you did such a nice job on
your site?
BTW, I agree with Mike (I think it was Mike) who said something like: It
is really nice to see OFBiz consultancies using OFBiz. I'm just going to
add - Thanks for doing this.
I'm curious about Solr. I have not heard that thousands of products are a
performance issue if you use OFBiz caching wisely. Have you found that was
the case or did you implement Solr for other reasons?
Finally, where are you getting the books - that you can give them away for
free?
Thanks
Ruth Hoffman
[email protected]
On 4/17/12 6:52 AM, Paul Piper wrote:
Hey Guys,
we just released our demo store:<http://www.syracus.net> www.syracus.net
.
We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we opted for a store
that
lets you download audio books… for free! All is based upon Apache OFBiz,
of
course, though we did some extraordinary changes to the ecommerce
component:
· Implementation of Apache Solr – solr is implemented as a
standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease
· Complete rewrite of all store pages – cleaned up html& CSS
· Responsive Design – try looking at the store with your mobile
device
· Redesigned Checkout – no registration necessary for
one-time-shoppers
Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books,
let
me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.
Cheers,
Paul
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Geschäftsführer
Web:<http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com
Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066
Fax: (+49) 611-94589449
eMail:<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
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Germany
