I agree with you on your comments about help etc.
Their documentation is weak. The product however, is very robust and
flexible.
Paul Burgess
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> From: Chris Giminez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 7:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Is Able Commerce truly user-unfriendly and hence useless?
>
>
> I am only about 4 months into Cold Fusion. Able is the first CF
> store package for me to use. I have
> been very frustrated with it's "Wizards" mostly due to a lack or
> non-integration of help files.
> Figuring out how to customize something is mostly a 'try and see
> what happens' process. Their
> documentation is not easily accessible as far as trying to find
> specifically what you want to do. I
> started with the standard version and was too limited, so I had
> to upgrade to the open source. I'm
> not saying they do this, but it almost seems that they limit what
> you can do just so you'll have to
> pay another $1500 for open source. I'm just starting to get
> comfortable with it and would probably
> use it again since I would be much more familiar with it the next
> time around. The backend is very
> solid and with my limited experience with CF I wouldn't even want
> to try to build everything the
> program does.
>
> If I were able to give Able some advice, it would be to add a
> help button to every page of the admin
> section. Hitting the button would load a pop up window with help
> that is specific to where you are
> in the program. This would have saved me hours in learning it...
> and having to call support to
> figure it out.
>
>
> Chris Giminez
> Owner - Cyber Scriber Web Site Design
> 831-728-4469
> ICQ# 2628000
>
>
>
>
> > I have tried to get Able Commerce which is built on Cold Fusion
> templates
> > up and running as an e-commerce solution. Problem is the
> program seems so
> > utterly rigid in deployment that there's no way to get into the pages to
> > customize the look.
> >
> > The basic look made by Able Commerce is so ugly that the resulting pages
> > make one desire to throw up. Hence changing the look is critical, yet
> > apparently impossible when you go to the editing web pages section.
> >
> > Is Able Commerce truly an impossible program to work with and
> could anyone
> > for the love of God please recommend something more user friendly and
> > actually usable. We've lost a good two weeks messing around with Able
> > Commerce, it has all in all been a highly frustrating experience.
> >
> > Would appreciate a reference to any other shopping cart
> e-commerce solution.
> >
> >
> >
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