e - commerce
Case Study: MadeLoud.com Music Community Utilizing Drupal
MadeLoud.com is a music community based website that offers several social networking features for Indie Artists and Fans. The site serves two primary purposes - to promote and sell independent musicians’ music and merchandise, as well as encourage Indie Fans to listen to, review, and to buy the artists’ music and merchandise.
Modules we are waiting for in Drupal 6
LevelTen has shifted almost all development to Drupal 6. Drupal 6 offers more features and more elegant ways approaching solutions. However there are still some modules that do not have stable Drupal 6 releases. Here is a list of modules we keep waiting for,
Spam flagging
Abuse (in dev)
Flag Content (in dev)
LevelTen's Experience With Two Project Life Cycles
While there are 4 project life cycles adopted for software and web development, LevelTen primarily works within the Waterfall (also known as Serial) and Iterative cycles. While all project life cycles provide advantages and disadvantages, these two have been widely accepted and adopted by software, IT, and web companies alike.
Technical development
Technical development provides the functionality of your web site. All sites have some level of technical requirements from basic web hosting to e-commerce to complex web applications.
Technical Functionality Tips
- Many inexpensive packaged scripts exist to add functionality to your site. Proper use of these resources can dramatically increase the value and uniqueness of your site for little costs.
- Technical development can be used to tailor site content to the specific needs of the user.
Shopping cart
A shopping cart is an e-commerce web application that mimics a virtual store. It allows customers to browse and select a product(s), then purchase them at a virtual check out.
Most e-commerce is done with one of the many preprogrammed shopping carts that are available. While these packages should prove adequate for most e-commerce needs, custom programming is always an option for more advanced features.
Shopping cart tips
E-commerce
e-Commerce is the process of buying products and services online. The most typical form of e-commerce is an online catalog (shopping cart) that allows users to select products and pay for them by credit card. e-Commerce is a very popular mechanism for companies large and small to sell their wares on a world-wide market.
e-Commerce requirements
- Shopping Cart
Online catalog that allows users to select products to purchase at 'check out'. - Merchant Account
Ubercart
Ubercart is an ecommerce suite for Drupal. It is a more modern alternative to the ecommerce module.
Favorite Ubercart Sites
LevelTen site engine
The LevelTen site engine is the collection of software packages that LevelTen uses to help you manage the content of your website while maintaining a professional and appealing website. LevelTen hit counter LevelTen content management system l10cms integrated user management levelten ecommerce
LevelTen ecommerce
LevelTen ecommerce is an extension of the LevelTen content management system. It is designed with the same ease of use in mind for running an online store while ensuring that the website runs reliably.
Open Source eCommerce Grows Up
Open source is where the web is heading and while we love WordPress and their blogging platform, eCommerce options have left much to be desired. Don't get me wrong osCommerce and ZenCart have help many businesses get started, but their limitations and lack of updates/support often make for a very troubled solution.