Ecommerce & CS-Cart Shopping Sites by Virtually Marj

Posted by Marj Wyatt on January 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Ecommerce & CS-Cart Shopping Carts

Ecommerce is a critical component to your website strategy. Although there are a lot of WordPress shopping cart plugins to choose from, very few of them offer the robust features that most online store owners need. CS-Cart is my preferred recommendation for online store owners who want an professional and easy to maintain presence.

A Well Seasoned Kitchen Shop

http://seasonedkitchen.com/cart/

When my client envisioned a website for her publication, the site that was designed was primarily intended for promotion and sales of her acclaimed cookbook, A Well-Seasoned Kitchen. The client was unhappy with the limitations of the Shopping Cart plugin that had been implemented by her previous webmaster. My services were retained to design and implement a full-featured shopping cart.

For this project and based on the features and functions that my client was requesting, I recommended the use of CS-Cart software.

Project tasks:

1) Installation of CS-Cart software
2) Design and implement custom CS-Cart skin
3) Configure shipping features and functions per customer specification
4) Customize CS-Cart application for gift wrapping
5) Load products and SEO optimize content
6) Enable SSL certificate for domain
7) Test and implement payment processing
8) Train client in the use of their new application

Skills required:

1) HTML
2) CSS
3) Photoshop
4) CS-Cart Internals
5) Ecommerce
6) PHP
7) MySQL
8) Payment Gateway API

Branson Area Cabin

http://bransonareacabin.com

My WordPress Website Design services were retained to develop a website to promote and acquire online reservations for a rental property in Missouri.

Project tasks:

1) Recommend and set up account at a good hosting company
2) Install and optimize WordPress
3) Design page that conveyed the spirit of the company name
4) Set up an online reservation system
5) Set up, test and implement payment gateway API
6) Load initial site content and image galleries
7) Setup and integrate Google map for points of interest and activites during stay

Skills required:

1) HTML
2) CSS
3) PHP
4) MySQL
5) WordPress internals
6) Photoshop
7) Web-based reservations
8) Image gallery setup

Men's Gift Spot

http://mensgiftspot.com.au

My services were retained to develop an Ecommerce website for Australian Gift site. Initially, we began with Magento but the software's complexity, along with the learning curve for shop owners, led me to research other shopping cart solutions.

Shopperpress had just come on the market and I could see that it was a better WordPress Shopping Cart application than any of the others which I had used but that software didn't support gift certificates and a shopper wishlist. In my professional opinion, Shopperpress is more targeted for shop owners who want to import product links from affiliate programs like eBay or Amazon. As I was researching shopping cart application alternatives that would meet the requirements of this shop owner, I learned about and recommended the use of CS-Cart.

Project tasks:

1) Install CS-Cart
2) Design custom skin
3) Customize CS-Cart functionality
4) Test and activate payment gateway (eWay)
5) Page and logo graphics

Skills required:

1) HTML
2) CSS
3) Photoshop
4) PHP
5) MySQL
6) CS-Cart Internals
7) Ecommerce