Good points Krystian
I've make standards compliant templates in ZenCart but it was a very
hard slog and involved minimising a lot of the functions and layout
options, not ideal. Also, you rightly address semantic mark-up as
vital which few cart options get right. If I'm in the dvd section, the
h1 should reflect that as different than when I am looking at Shop >
DVDs > Star Wars, where Star wars should be the h1.
I find most generic shopping carts are good for selling books and dvds
but very difficult for the client to understand when they have less
than simple products. ZenCart for example does not let you easily
stock control t-shirts across different size/colour/variations easily.
So the gauntlet has been thrown. A simple, customisable shopping cart,
that is at least _somewhat_ standards compliant, uses CSS (with tables
only for tabular data, not layout) and allows one or more template
with a usable template engine (allowing the developer to force
standards compliance by generating their own templates.)
Anyone?
Joe
On Aug 13, 2008, at 14:00, Krystian - Sunlust wrote:
Okay, I'll try to bring it back OnTopic.
Which of shopping cards actually uses css based templates without
tones of tables? And if noone will mind, which CMS does so?
I mean,I'm using Joomla and everyone says that the templates are
standard compliant etc, but when I see the bloody header named
"contentheader" instead of "h2" it really pisses me off - not semantic
and not SEO friendly.
What's your best practice for Shopping Carts templates/systems, would
you rather restyle a template to make it more standard compliant or
start from a scratch, and same with coding, do you sometimes try to
fix shopping cart software to customize it or do you not as it makes
it hard to update later on?
Regards,
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