Champion craft store - redesigned
October 3rd 2 commentsNew Zealand’s only online craft and design store, Champion, has been relaunched with a new look and a new shopping cart.
The previous site was running on Zen Cart - a very badly implemented version/spin-off of OSCommerce (which isn’t very good either). It was a constant problem for us. The template engine was a complete nightmare to work with and one tiny type-o, or PHP mishap would result in a total break-down. In my opinion there is nothing zen about it. I’d go as far as to say the zen cart is the opposite of zen.
Well anyway…back to the lovely new site. It’s written in XHTML 1.0 transitional, and CSS (with a few -moz- attributes thrown in). The site loads MUCH quicker than the last one due to the lightweight code and lack of massive layout-tables. The PHP running the whole lot is a lot more simple and friendly that the zen cart. It actually allows for customer creation, logging in, checking out, all those things you’d expect from cart software! :) (Plus it’s so easy to skin/template!) Steve at Seven Internet has done an excellent job. If you’re looking for awesome shopping cart software I recommend it highly!
Please go and visit the site. Purchase something. Show your support for local, handmade, unique designs.
(An aside. I’ve forgotten how to write so I’ve been avoiding it. Maybe one day in the not too distant future I’ll update more frequently…but I’m not making any promises!)
Hi Darren
Sweet looking shop! I actually came here to ask you what software the shop was running, but you answered that. I’ll be adding it to absorb soon - been too busy.
Cheers Ryan. We’re happy with it :)