Dated : 12/Sep/2010
Hi I am back with some development upgrade. I have added lots of new features to the website. There is no point in explaining everything but I'll explain few.
Mini Basket
If you go to the website, you can see a mini basket on right side, which moves with the scrolling. you can hide/show basket. Its made with jQuery. Another excellent feature of this basket is if you go to any category or manufacturer page and click add to basket, the item flies to the basket and is added without any postback.
Search enhancement
I was not fully happy with nopcommerce search, so I have built my custom search which uses sharepoint and indexing. All the pages are indexed in a sharepoint server and uses microsoft live search facility to search the website and show results. This means there is no database search and its faster.
Shopping Cart
The main shopping cart was very lengthy and lots of pages so I have changed that to use ajax. Now there are only three/four steps from shopping cart to the payment. This should increase conversion rate hopfully.
Automatic stock update
As I don't stock everything and some of the stock is coming from supplier feeds so I have added automatic stock update in the admin panel. The stock updates automatically every night. For this the website has a task which automatically logs in to the suppliers servers, download csv file and updates the stock associated to the supplier. The price changes are emailed to me so that I can adjust my prices.
I have also reduced Viewstate on most pages and optimised pages for loading speed.
Here is the website address www.just4laptops.co.uk
Please have a look at the website and your positive/negative feedback is welcome. My email is [email protected]
I also do custom design/development and soon be in nopcommerce solution providers so if you need anything doing please let me know.
Regards
Atiq