We’re proud to announce our latest ExpressionEngine site…

KeyStone Learning Systems

This site is running in a multisite manager install alongside our sister site, Global Learning Systems, which was launched a few months ago.

One of the things I’m happiest with on the new site is the product template. Example:

Microsoft Office 2007 Training

We had to continue using a legacy inventory system/shopping cart—but sometimes constraints breed creativity. In order to have current pricing pulled in from our legacy database I used a combination of EE tags and ajax. Works beautifully. (jQuery was the library used for AJAX as well as for hiding/showing content and visual effects.)

I’d sure appreciate your feedback on design, navigation, and “vibe.”

Thanks,
Brian Morykon

what cart did u use?  Can you discuss the integration between EE and cart?

therooster—

We use a cart from an e-commerce platform called storefront.net. Custom fields were setup in ExpressionEngine for the database ID of products in storefront. A simple webservice uses that ID to retrieve the price from the Storefront database. That ID is also passed via querystring to the shopping cart.

If I were building from scratch I would probably use Magento.

Hope that helps!

Brian

storefront is pretty pricey.  I’m not too crazy Magneto. For a small shop I’ve seen a couple of better alternatives (in regards to price point) like ecommercetemplates, jshop, phpsupercart, and clickcart. all are dirt cheap compared to storefront.

The design looks great and the whole site feels very intuitive.  I wouldn’t change a thing if I could.
Well, maybe tell the instructors to talk faster ;-) .

Very well done, Brian.

Nice and straight to point…one thing I would expect is more indication on sample videos under “included in this bundle”...there really is nothing to indicate that link will lead to a video clip. eg. office2003.

In other words, ‘section to buy’ is found pretty easy while ‘section to try/see’ is somewhat buried. I might have hit only a few in this condition as well
Good work, I like it, definite bookmark for some of my users.