Drupal theming and deployment for e-commerce
plugz (1244 pencils) | Thu, 2010-09-16 11:29Hello you lot, been a VERY long time since I've posted on here since I left the world of design a couple of years ago. Hope all is well with the creativebits crew. :o)
I've come to ask some advice, I've been working in e-commerce for the past few years and now a lot of people I've worked with on b2b projects are now coming to me looking for me to design smaller, specialist e-commerce sites for their own businesses.
Most of these just need a basic site to sell a few products through and so rather than keep creating from scratch, I'm coming up with a 'package' that I can sell and set-up[ quickly.
I've narrowed a solution down to using a Drupal CMS with an Ubercart module for the transactional side of things, but I have absolutely no experience of theming Drupal and/or Ubercart and was wondering if anyone had any tips, advice or resources for this kind of thing?
I've been spending all my time recently working with product data, APIs and extended fields instead of my old haunts of Photoshop and Dreamweaver so I'm a bit out of touch on the latest happenings.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin.
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I think it's best if you outsource the theming part to someone. But if you want to do it yourself start with the zen theme. It will allow you to customize everything.
Yeah I looked at outsourcing, but realistically I'm going to need to be able to edit stuff anyway.
My CCS skills are much better than they used to be so I'll see how I go, I've installed Zen already and been having a play with the CSS on some other themes so I've got an idea of the page elements.
I look at it from the point of view that every time I outsource something, I lose another few hundred dollars and I don't learn anything, so I've started factoring a bit of extra time in to projects and going the DIY route.
Thanks, for the Zen tip, glad I'd made one right choice so far. :)
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