A bit outside of the UK, I think the original poster was hoping to find someone who has managed to overcome the hurdles to get a site working in the UK.
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Hi Matthew,
The silk weddings site looks good. It looks professionally done, and works well.
I notice that the site uses the default text such as ‘cart’ (I prefer ‘basket’), but you may be happy with that.
Cheers
Just started using Magento and I love it, what an improvement on the competition. I’ve been using the Zend Framework for around 6 months now on another project and was pleased to find Magento was built using the same framework, it’s been very easy to navigate around the code because of this. Nevertheless the admin panel is pretty comprehensive with the only minor shortcomings being the inability to remove test orders but I used an sql script to remove them directly from the database and lack of shipping modules relevant to the UK but I’ve managed to get round these with the flat and table rate modules. Even the default template worked well for us, only really changed colours in the CSS. The site I’m developing is not fully operational yet because we’re still waiting on content from the client but here’s the URL if you want to take a look. Comments welcome.
Only has the one product at present, but I wanted to use Magento to enable me to add more without difficulty.
This site has the VAT calculations working correctly. At present I’m only shipping to the UK to make life easier.
I’m awaiting Protx still with regards to credit card payments, had a problem as Barclaycard insisted I get another merchant number which took about a month for them to assign.
It only took me about 15 hours to create this site from scratch. I am quite familiar with the way Magento works now, and using Firefox with the CSS editor has definitely made my life easier.
Oh, and the Eikon Digital Privacy Manager is a great little product, especially if you are a web developer with lots of passwords!!
Our shopping cart is almost ready , few teething problems but should be ready in a month. ( Is Adult toys ...so dont click through if you are offended)
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I thoroughly enjoyed your site’s layout and really enjoyed the fact that you’d made the most of the categories, was able to find what I was looking for VERY quickly… good work
Marnie - 03 July 2008 07:45 AM
Just started using Magento and I love it, what an improvement on the competition. I’ve been using the Zend Framework for around 6 months now on another project and was pleased to find Magento was built using the same framework, it’s been very easy to navigate around the code because of this. Nevertheless the admin panel is pretty comprehensive with the only minor shortcomings being the inability to remove test orders but I used an sql script to remove them directly from the database and lack of shipping modules relevant to the UK but I’ve managed to get round these with the flat and table rate modules. Even the default template worked well for us, only really changed colours in the CSS. The site I’m developing is not fully operational yet because we’re still waiting on content from the client but here’s the URL if you want to take a look. Comments welcome.
I was a little confused, expecting perhaps better navigation through clearer thoughts to some category design, and with that would come some layered navigation. Personally I would always have some product on landing page, even if it’s one tub of Peter Rabbit Handwash..
The “Petter Rabbit Organic Baby Products” link doesn’t really act as expected, i.e like the Home link within the Breadcrumbs.
Our shopping cart is almost ready , few teething problems but should be ready in a month. ( Is Adult toys ...so dont click through if you are offended)
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You can do with revisiting some of your descriptions. I wouldn’t buy a £600 item based on one sentence and one image alone.
And this seems written by someone in the far east:
This is a great sex doll it have 3 penetrating holes; mouth,Virgina and anal.
This also has a wireless vibrations which will deliver excellent orgasms.
Wasn’t ideally ready for launch, but my VirtueMart site went badly wrong so I put it up early. Just need to sort out the Royal Mail bits now, as well as backorders.
Alex, great use of the attributes. Must have taken some time to enter but works very well on the comparison I tried (MP4 players). That feature alone makes Magento worthwhile.
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