I was contacted recently by Martin at South, he had a possible Magento project and wanted to run some ideas past me to see if it was the best solution. After a few chats we decided that Magento probably was the best choice to pursue. In short he was looking to launch the Breastlight site into several countries and as a result over several domains, Magento provides for this type of use right out of the box.
The project overall went really well and Martin was a joy to work with, it was a difficult task mind, the main issue was with having to use the same markup as the existing eCommerce / CMS site and hence using 99% the original stylesheet. It meant re-writing a lot of Magento’s perfectly good markup to fit. No problems there however, after a couple of hiccups with conflicting Javascript classes we got the whole thing working and at a reasonable speed as well! One of the major gripes with Magento is that it can be quite slow – I have to say the more and more I use it the more I’m learning about optimising it for speed and we’re at the point now where it’s very, very usable.
I’m hoping to have more South collaborations to talk about again in the future, Martin and the other guys at south were great to work alongside and I think (fingers crossed!) I made a good impression. *toot toot*.
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