Re: FN-FORUM Sites in a box

date posted 1st November 2000 14:16

I know exactly what you mean Morgan - am having Actinic Catalog learning
curve from hell problems at the moment.

Take a look at http://www.chocolatefrog.co.uk/acatalog/

It's still in development at the moment, so it's changing from minute to
minute. Also, the credit card facility is set up but in test mode, so no
money is being debited from customer accounts as yet.

If this is the future of cheap ecommerce solutions I think we're doing
something badly wrong. The Actinic templates are devlishly difficult to
understand and even harder to modify. Trying to get this software to do what
I want it to has almost reduced me to tears this week!

Mind you, have been working until midnight or 1 am every night for the last
3 weeks has meant nerves are fraying anyway ;-)

The site's not fully live yet, but if you guys can spot any bloopers I'd
greatly appreciate it.

Thanks guys,

ruth arnold
spacehoppa.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Morgan Richards" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Sites in a box


> It is funny this thread should have appeared today, because I am spending
> today learning the inner workings of Actinic Business. The problem I have
> with these products is two fold. 1) They make it very difficult to
> customise, not impossible but they all use custom taging which can be a
> bugger to understand. 2) They are restrictive, for instance in Actinic
> Business although you can have multiple price bands for diffrent customers
> you can not remove certain items so certain customers can see certain
items.
>
> I do agree with Peter for small business this is the way it will go, but
for
> medium and larger companies they will still require custom sites to enable
> them to do what they want (or maybe there will be bolt on additions to the
> software to enable certain aspects to be done by the software, so you can
> add what functionality you need to your own site).
>
> Morgan