Multisite Search Suggest

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.

Experimenting with Node.js

Now I know nothing about websockets and node.js. But this website is impressive. You will need a browser that supports web sockets like Google Chrome or Safari.

The goto this site and see ghostly cursors moving around your page. This is in fact others users on the same page realtime. Very impressive.

I guess you could use it to see how users read a page on your site