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Kapitza shop - tag driven TxP site with semi-shopping cart integration
Hello
Here is my attempt at a semi-shopping cart integration:
(Based in London, UK, kapitza are a deisgn studio and font foundry.)
Features:
- Tag-based navigation of fonts (thanks to Nathan Arthur’s tru-tags plugin);
- Shopping cart integration via CubeCart (not a full integration but smooth enough);
- Separate backgrounds for individual pages (via custom fields);
- URL rewrites and ‘false’ static pages (thanks to Graeme Porteous’s gbp_faux_static plugin).
Design is by kapitza, web build and cart integration by me.
Thanks,
Simon
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Re: Kapitza shop - tag driven TxP site with semi-shopping cart integration
Sorry to say, but I was totally lost after three clicks. IMHO, one has to have a very strong urge to buy something to bear this navigation method. As me and the brick lane people met the fourth time, I turned away.
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Re: Kapitza shop - tag driven TxP site with semi-shopping cart integration
As me and the brick lane people met the fourth time…
That might be because there are 5 fonts and 4 of them are silhouettes of people (all from areas of the East End of London and all using the same photomontage at the bottom) and the other is of plants :-)
In other words, maybe the navigation is okay but the product differentiation is not sufficient.
Otherwise I quite like it – it’d be nice to see just a bit more of the background … perhaps by giving the container a little top and bottom margin. The background image context/texture idea can work great (leftloft springs to mind) but I think it needs to be a tad more tantalising. At the moment I have a sliver each side which doesn’t quite get the curiosity going.
Cubecart integration looks good too.
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How was the cube cart intergration? Can you share any steps or gripes about using it in conjunction with TXP?
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Re: Kapitza shop - tag driven TxP site with semi-shopping cart integration
Thanks for the comments.
As jakob points out, the nav system is intended to work with quite a few more products (they’re working on them) .. and is aimed at pointing visitors to products they may not have thought of looking at initially. We’ll see how that works.
Re. CubeCart integration (soulship) .. it’s not a full integration .. CubeCart handles the shopping cart and payments exclusively .. but everything else is done via TextPattern. For example, the live ‘View Basket’ link at the top right (showing how many itmes in cart etc) is a pruned down CubeCart page displayed in an iframe in TextPattern. And the buy now buttons are all made via TxP forms using CubeCart product numbers as custom fields in articles, for example:
< form name=“addtocartmac” action=“http://domain.com/cart/cart.php?act=cart” method=“post” >
< input type=“hidden” name=“productCode” value=”< txp:custom_field name=“product code MAC” / >” / >
< noscript >
< input type=“submit” name=“submit” value=“add to cart” / >
< /noscript >
< a href=“javascript:document.addtocartmac.submit();” class=“cartButton” title=“add mac font to cart” >mac< /a >
< /form >
It works well for the moment.
CubeCart itself is pretty new .. and has several teething problems (many of the payment gateway modules don’t work out of the box and need tweaking) but it’s much easier to skin than say ZenCart.
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#6 2006-08-26 10:00:02
- alexandra
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Re: Kapitza shop - tag driven TxP site with semi-shopping cart integration
The site has nice content but it is not well presented, me thinks. Why these bumpy backgrounds? They do not fit to the rest.
Right now the site looks uneasy to me.
But i like the content :)
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#7 2006-09-10 11:23:52
- jimpoep
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Re: Kapitza shop - tag driven TxP site with semi-shopping cart integration
That shop! It looks nice to me :)
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i like the pretty hip way the shop looks and works, although the “brick lane” thing is something that doesn’t sell to me. nice fonts, though, compliments!
i don’t like the fact, that one need to register to order.
is there any way to bypass that?
or in general: what other shop systems might be easily integrable into textpattern, maybe even as a plugin based thing?
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