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Community Efforts to Spread the Word of V² Standards & Products
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Developing Custom Store Platform #7

Open VillageHubertChen opened 8 years ago

VillageHubertChen commented 8 years ago

Executive summary

  1. Pick a redy build eCommerce that is trouble free
  2. Pick trouble free Hoster, expect $1 / month.
  3. We build Village Tronic's shop first and make it bug free and easy to maintain
  4. We build a V² Community Demo Shop with future shop owner (Nino, Bobby, ...)
  5. Shop Owner installs shop on his hoster, completes customization
  6. Shop Owner starts sales on his own shop

    1) Criteria to Pick eCommerce solution

    Easy support for major payment systems

We want customers can pay at least with PayPal and Major Credit Cards. The more the merrier. And we want that setting this up is easy.

Data and transaction safety

The solution must be safe

Pick SW Stack can be hosted anywhere

That would be HTML + MySQL + PHP.

Pick clean API between Front to Back

We want to give the front end our own look and feel. We shall pick an eCommerce solution that allows customizing the look and feel with little effort and little time spend in debugging.

Pick easy shop customization

The shop owner is not expected to code. We need to pick an eCommerce solution that is either easy to be customized in the backend only, or we can add the missing customization easily by moving them into JSON files.

Do not use Joomla or Wordpress

Our experience is that they require more upkeep and they limit choices in eCommerce solutions.

2) Picking a hoster

The eCommerce solution will not have much demands on the hoster. A $12 / Year plan of any othe major hoster will do. Nino and Bobby should pick one that they like.

3) Build Village Tronic's new shop

We want to walk away from Joomla. So we need a new shop anyways. We will pick our shop solution to be sutable for V² Communnity Shop Owner as well. All testing and customization is done considering that once the Village Tronic shop works, we will use it as a template to build the V² Community Demo Shop

4) Building the V² Community Demo Shop

Run on suggested hoster

We build a prototype shop on the suggested hoster. We populate it with $1 parts, so we can do real shopping on it to test all its functions. Community review is also possible.

Easy customization for Shop Owner

Use customization of eCommerce solution

Wherever the shop allows for customization in the backend, we will use it.

JSON where possible

When we customize HTML and CSS of the front end, we will use JSON where possible to remove customization text from HTML and move it to external JSON file. This will make customization easier for shop owner

Build exact final shop

Whenever we customize the shop, we make a screen recording and publish it into the playlist: "Build your own eShop". This makes it easy for the future shop owner to redo the customization.

Clean Presentation of Liabilities

Time to serve the community and make some money in the process.

Tasks

bcaswelch commented 8 years ago

Sounds great! Is the shop layout going to be similar with how you have the new homepage?

VillageHubertChen commented 8 years ago

We do not know yet. It may be possible. We need to choose between two technologies:

Current shop technology:

New technology we are considering

We will look into making this decision, after we finish the V² pages enough, so they can be used by others to start contributing.