Hi Nick, Impressive!
Is the advantage of BigFish over OFBiz - trunk primarily, or even only, with regard to ecommerce? If not, can you point to a document that describes the differences between the two? (Some of those I am interested in serving are not involved in ecommerce, as it is rather hard to sell a shower or a new roof, over the web, but they need the inventory, accounting and project management features). Also, you had mentioned multi-site capability. Have you written up instructions on how to deploy that? I would assume, from what you wrote, that it would be feasible to add more sites at any time after the initial deployment. I would assume, further, that each site is connected to a single party, though a given party could have multiple sites, and that info from two sites in a single deployment will not bleed into each other. In connection to this, can a merchant readily hire a graphics design person to modify the look and feel of the ecommerce site? If so, what is involved? Would they simply make their own CSS, and drop it in place? That is what I did for my own websites (developed in Perl): If one website operator wants a different look and feel (even a very drastic change from my defaults), they need only modify a CSS and drop it in place; and thus I'd assume you did/support something similar. And also concernig this, what do you do to support search engine optimization? After all, even a pretty website is useless if people don't often find it. One last question I would ask about multisite BigFish is in fact related to what I need to do to set up a multisite WordPress site (not obvious, but not rocket science either), involves what I would need to do to set up an ecommerce site that presents excerpts of digital products (say essays available to subscribers to a WordPress site), and uses them as ads for selling subscriptions to a wordpress site. I know OFBiz already has support for digital products, but it isn't clear to me how to configure a happy marriage of OFBiz/BigFish to WordPress. Finally, I saw, on your page for getting BigFish, instructions that involve downloading an installation program. Do you also have it acessable via subversion, or other version control system? Instead of running an installer, I'd prefer to retrieve the codebase and build it in the same way that I obtain and build OFBiz, if you support that? (Or should I have read further in that documentation?) Thanks Ted On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Nick Rosser <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > In a nutshell it's an extension of OFBiz -- a fully functional eCommerce > solution. > > Check out more details at http://bigfish.solveda.com > > In particular, look at the demo instances. > > Fashion House eCommerce: > http://bigfish.solveda.com:8082/online/shop/main > Fashion House Admin Module: > https://bigfish.solveda.com:8442/osafe-admin/control/main > (login is admin/ofbiz) > > > Best Regards, > > *Nick Rosser* > [email protected] > Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 > Cell: 1.516.901.1720 > www.solveda.com > > On 5/7/2013 1:06 PM, David Saenz wrote: >> >> What is bigfish? >> >> On 5/7/2013 10:13 AM, Nick Rosser wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> (reposting as I needed to subscribe using our new domain) >>> >>> I'm pleased to announce that the latest BigFish implementation is now >>> live. >>> >>> Check out www.1800athlete.com >>> >>> This is a great looking site and the creation of it is more interesting: >>> >>> * a long time client of ours originally engaged with us to build >>> www.1800fishoil.com using the BigFish platform >>> * After the successful launch of this site they wanted to follow up >>> with the "1800athlete" site >>> * The new www.1800athlete.com site is built within their existing >>> BigFish architecture using the "multi site" capability >>> o single database to support both sites >>> o two instances of BigFish deployed, one for each site >>> o each with separate configurations, style sheets (CSS) and >>> separate product catalog >>> o no additional programming was required to build >>> www.1800athlete.com -- some visual design, product setup, >>> configuration and it's a go! >>> >>> It's actually pretty impressive that they pulled it off ... with hardly >>> any support from us. And they are not a big tech company, just have very >>> good knowledge of the OFBiz entity model. >>> >>> For more information about BigFish check out http://bigfish.solveda.com. >>> More updates coming soon to the site, with some very nice enhancements >>> and more success stories. Enjoy! >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> *Nick Rosser* >>> [email protected] >>> Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 >>> Cell: 1.516.901.1720 >>> www.solveda.com >>> > -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. [email protected] CTO Merchant Services Corp. 17665 Leslie st., unit 30 Newmarket , Ontario L3Y 3E3
