Ecommerce meeting w3c standards
The importance of developing w3c standard compliant websites is becoming more and more popular among everyone in the industry which is great even if it is still rather slow in the uptake.
But with that now comes the need for shopping carts that display valid markup or allow you to manipulate it to display valid xhtml.
I haven’t come across many packages but our recent project http://www.easypsp.co.uk is powered by JShop; a nice ecommerce package. By default the template hasn’t valid markup or even proper css implementation(no tableless design either) but you can manipulate the templates to work with valid xhtml and I’ve been pretty impressed with there setup so far. By popular request the next release is going to have xhtml valid markup.
My question is, what do you use or recommend for w3c standard shopping carts?
Nick Said,
May 16, 2006 @ 9:51 pm
Thanks…very informative blog.
I looked at http://www.easypsp.co.uk & note that it does not produce valid html. I am using Jshop for several sites & now need to look at this….
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.easypsp.co.uk%2F
Nick.
Derek Said,
May 16, 2006 @ 10:30 pm
Hi thanks, Actually that site isn’t being worked on that much anymore, mostly the sister sites http://www.easyishop.co.uk and http://www.easylaptopshop.co.uk
At the moment they aren’t valid either. There are a few parts of jshop which are time consuming to change so as long as it works thats our main priority at the moment.
Nick Said,
May 18, 2006 @ 4:50 pm
>At the moment they aren’t valid either.
…but still better than output from mine!
Next version of Jshop (when finally released) is promised to have tidier HTML & valid ouput.
Thanks
Nick.
Rick Kacerek Said,
November 14, 2006 @ 12:51 am
try www.fine-store.com (www.fine-store.co.uk)
Nick Said,
November 21, 2006 @ 12:43 am
Looks interesting, but try printing or “print preview”….no content is shown on main demo & one of the demos I checked.
I’m surpirised how many designers don’t remember to design for “print” output as well as “screen”.
It is easy, with a seperate stlye sheet for your print format.