Beadazzle run two jewellery sites online. One site www.beadazzle.co.uk sells official Pandora Jewellery and the www.beadazzle-boutique.co.uk site sells all other non Pandora Jewellery products. Due to Pandora’s strict selling guidelines, they cannot sell any other products apart from Pandora on a single site.

This meant that if they wanted to buy item Pandora and non Pandora products they would need to place two separate transactions. To make it easier to find products I implemented a Search Suggest feature which is licensed from Code Canyon and modified it to work on Digishop. Then wrote a php script to pull product information from Beadazzle Boutique into the Search suggest script.

Customers can now type in the search box and products from both sites will be suggested to them, and click on a non Pandora product will result in a new window opening for beadazzle boutique. This will hopefully show loyal Pandora customers that Beadazzle sell more than just Pandora.

This script can also be implemented in X-Cart which is what I will be implementing in Beadazzle Boutique.

John and Ginger are official stockists of Dermalogica, Dermalogica Clean Start and Decleor

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Just come across an impressive jquery slider on the code canyon website. It does animation and look ideal for an online store.

Try it out here : http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-onebyone-slider-plugin/full_screen_preview/684613

Full product Information : http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-onebyone-slider-plugin/684613

This issue can be fixed by adding the following line add approx line 54.

x_load(‘user’);

The full forum thread is here.

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=60203&highlight=func_get_address_book

We run our own e-commerce store GAPco which helps us understand exactly what is required to market an e-commerce store online.

The usual suspects are of course Facebook, Blogs and Twitter combined with onsite SEO for the main website.

It’s great to see our clients sales increase through our hard work and attention to detail.

John and Ginger have 3 stores in total to migrate. The final site will be The Plastic Shop before the September cut off date for Secure Central.

We’ve learnt alot from the process but all in all it has been a very positive experience and has moved Zone 1 Creative a notch up the ladder.

Thank you to all the clients who put their trust in Zone 1 Creative.

Below is a link to one of my favourites
Beadazzle Boutique

Nick’s an old buddy from Dreamteam Design and brings Jammy Dodgers into the office.

The new design is very strong and the functionality is bang up to date.

Visit: www.beadazzle-boutique.co.uk

Migration

First of all ‘migration’ is a misleading word as there is no magic button. Migrating from one e-commerce platform to another simply means building the whole site again.

The devil is in the detail

Re-creating a website design to match its present state often means catching up with several years of design tweaks and modifications by the site owner. For example, if a site owner has added extra images, links, videos or html styling, these areas have to be first identified and then re-created manually.

In other words your site design doesn’t truly end at the homepage.

Exporting and Importing Products

Product data – Product Name, Description and Prices, are exported into a CSV and then re-imported into the new software but all extraneous html has to be stripped out before a clean import can be achieved. This html then has to be re-created manually (See last paragraph)

Shipping, taxes and countries

These settings can often be quite complex and the new platform may handle these differently – no two platforms are ever truly ‘like for like’

Cross Browser Testing

Everything also has to be thoroughly tested across IE, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome for layout and functionality.

I hope this helps to explain a little