Hi Nick, I just tried out your BigFish fashion demo backend and frontend, it doesn't seem to have anywhere to specify the product's colour and size etc in add new product or manage product, how do you add product variant please? Thanks.
Kind Regards On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Nick Rosser <[email protected]> wrote: > OFBiz user community: > > A quick update for the BigFish eCommerce project. For more details please > visit http://bigfish.salmonllc.com. The best way to view what this is all > about is to click on the "Demo" link and play around. The Fashion House and > Electronic Store demos show the majority of features that are available. > > Significant feature enhancements since the last release are as follows: > > ** Many small enhancements and fixes, in both the eCommerce and Admin > modules > > ** Rotating Carousel: Fashion House and Electronic Store both have > implementation examples. Content maintained in Admin Module (Content / Home > page spots). > > ** QuickLook on Product Listing Page (PLP): prototype available, still > needs some tweaks to control the transition > > ** Product "Variant" enhancements. Check out the Fashion House demo at > http://bigfish.salmonllc.com:**8082/osafe/control/main<http://bigfish.salmonllc.com:8082/osafe/control/main>. > Click on Apparel / Blouses. Play with the "swatches", works very well in > Product Detail Page. Also integrated into the SOLR facets. On the Fashion > House demo execute a site search for "pink" -- you'll see the pink variant > image of the "3/4 sleeve button down". Search for "white" and you'll see > the white version. Works nicely. > > ** Mega Menu. Both Fashion House and Electronic Store demos have examples > of overriding the standard navigation drop-down with a more expansive "mega > menu". Content managed in Admin Module (Content / Product Category Content). > > ** Under the covers (CSS): we've spent a lot of time consolidating and > cleaning up the CSS, for both eCommerce and Admin. For adopters this should > greatly simplify styling for your desired look-and-feel. Tools in the Admin > Module (Admin / Tools) to store new style sheets and switch CSS files. > Currently working on alternate styles for the Admin Module (for some reason > folks don't seem to like our classic "in your face orange" styling!). > > ** Admin Module, enhancements to support all additional features, enhanced > Order Status changes (on the Orders tab). > > > ROAD MAP ... > > For a complete list of features, what's coming soon, and our road map go > to > http://bigfish.salmonllc.com/**bfFeatures.html<http://bigfish.salmonllc.com/bfFeatures.html> > . > > There was some previous interest in the multi-site capability of BigFish. > We've made some baseline changes to control the separation of Product > catalog, and the Admin Module understands this separation. We have a clear > idea as to how to separate out the other content (home page, static pages > etc.) and will be implementing this shortly. > > NEW CLIENTS ... > > The community may be interested to know that we're working on two client > implementations, both decent mid-sized companies. Our general sales > prospecting efforts are beginning to pick up some momentum and we typically > have 2 client demos each week ... obviously hoping that we will be > converting some of these into real clients over the coming weeks and > months. We've also found that the BigFish solution stacks up quite well > when comparing to Magento and other pay-for competitors. We don't have any > particular "white papers" or similar documentation but obviously the price > point is a very attractive feature. In terms of integration we are > leveraging our custom software history as a way to ensure prospects of our > capability and our ability to implement a robust, stable, expandable and > flexible solution. The rich functionality of the OFBiz baseline is key here > -- and every BigFish implementation is by nature an OFBiz implementation so > hopefully this will bring more attention to the OFBiz project during the > rest of this year. > > As always, comments, questions, suggestions are welcome! > > -- > Best Regards, > > Nick Rosser > [email protected] > O: 516.742.7888 x221 > C: 516.901.1720 > >
