Comments on: Great usability in ecommerce http://blog.fluidesign.com/2007/07/15/great-usability-in-ecommerce/ The pleasure of recognition and the promise of meaning. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:18:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Patrick http://blog.fluidesign.com/2007/07/15/great-usability-in-ecommerce/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Patrick Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:54:09 +0000 http://blog.fluidesign.com/archives/170#comment-98 I think the reason you see the process broken into two steps on many sites is partly because a lot of them relied on iterations of osCommerce and ZenCart, which both break the shopping cart functionality into stages. Changing this has traditionally been like crawling over broken glass only to take a dip in a pool of lime juice and tequila (hello Sonny!). Maybe our friends over at Varien have a more efficient tool. It seems pretty sweet so far. Also, the same folks behind the CakePHP framework are releasing a cart later this year - we should keep our peepers peeled for that ass well. I think the reason you see the process broken into two steps on many sites is partly because a lot of them relied on iterations of osCommerce and ZenCart, which both break the shopping cart functionality into stages. Changing this has traditionally been like crawling over broken glass only to take a dip in a pool of lime juice and tequila (hello Sonny!).

Maybe our friends over at Varien have a more efficient tool. It seems pretty sweet so far. Also, the same folks behind the CakePHP framework are releasing a cart later this year - we should keep our peepers peeled for that ass well.

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