E-Commerce the easy way with Tradingeye
Monday, June 15th, 2009By Greg Kirk, gregkirk.com
About Greg Kirk
Greg Kirk is 27 and lives just outside of Leeds in the North of England. Greg is a web designer and has been working in web design since 2005. Greg graduated from The University of Huddersfield with a BSc in Multimedia Techonology. Greg got his first break in the industry at Moving Media Marketing. In 2006 he joined WPA Pinfold, and currently heads up all their digital media work.
E-Commerce the easy way with Tradingeye
I’ve never been one to re-invent the wheel and this is something I come across so often in web development. Why start from scratch when the solution has already been built and is available in the public domain. This is very much the case with e-commerce sites where the fundamentals of the site are so often exactly the same. For example, you will always have an add to basket option; a search facility; delivery charges and promotional offers. It therefore makes sense when building an e-commerce site to start off with a solid, consistent structure for each one. This is where www.Tradingeye.com comes in.
Tradingeye is an off the shelf e-commerce package created by the guys at dpivision.com Ltd and I for one think its fantastic. The beauty of Tradingeye is the freedom the system gives you. So often when I’m using other e-commerce packages I have to comply to some style rules or I’m restricted with some sort of template. With Trdaingeye everything is customisable and it is also relatively straightforward to do so. The other beauty of Trdaingeye is that all the code generated is “nice code” no tables here.
I’ve worked on several sites that utilise Tradingeye over the last few months and the help from the support team has been excellent and there is a growing community building up on the forum. And with a new version just around the corner Tradingeye looks set to get better and better.