T-Shirt site growing - Any recommendations to use Joomla, CMS, osCommerce, or?

[johnnygphotography]

I'm upgrading a T-shirt website to allow 100 or so new t-shirts to be added every couple months. It's only for displaying the shirts and not selling them. I would like the site to have the look of an ecommerce site minus the shopping cart.

The site is meant for only their buyers and reps to view (no consumers) so only product number, name and wholesale price is needed. And when they click (or mouse-over) on the thumbnail image of the t-shirt a larger image pops open. They only make women's and junior's tees so there aren't too many categories.

Since, I will be doing the updates, I am looking for any easier system where I can delete old styles and add new ones,adding a new category page and removing old ones, etc.

Any suggestions? I've read a lot of posts about Joomla, CMS, osCommerce, Zencart, etc, but that made me want to chase my tail more.

Thanks to all those who will point me in the right direction...

[michigan]

hi, i am making my sites mostly with drupal drupal.org | Community plumbing
i just wanted to say, after you have narrowed down a few cms, you should go to each site and post your inquiries. i would imagine the cms that has the best available mods would be the right pick.

[Conficio]

I'd second that. Drupal is a great platform to build applications. I have had bad experiences with Joomla, I must say.

Drupal is not all gold, but it is way better. Mostly it is hard to get by good structured up to date information. This is especially important, as the releases 4.6, 4.7.X, 5.X, 6.X are incompatible with each other . So only do follow instructions, if you see a version number it applies to, otherwise you may waste your time.

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[Peter (IMC)]

Originally Posted by johnnygphotography

Any suggestions? I've read a lot of posts about Joomla, CMS, osCommerce, Zencart, etc, but that made me want to chase my tail more.

Well, my experience with Joomla is of the level that you should block your browser for everything that's about Joomla. The user interface is what keeps it popular I guess, but their URL's are from the stone age.

[pixma85]

Check out some flash templates on templatemonster.com, maybe you could get something integrated with one of those on that site and look very professional.

[Shades]

I've never used Drupal, but i currenlty use 3dcart. It lets me update multiple items at once which is pretty easy. And tagging them through categories is really simple as well. Only thing is its not cheap and i'm not sure if you'd want to be paying for the cart when you're not really using it. I pay 35 a month on it right now.

[williemanillie]

Originally Posted by pixma85

Check out some flash templates on templatemonster.com, maybe you could get something integrated with one of those on that site and look very professional.

This certainly isn't a good idea if ranking is of a concern. People don't go for eye-candy anyway. They just want results.

There is word that Google is working on flash and being able to search it, but until it is officiated, stick with regular code and make sure the template you use is SEO friendly if you are going to purchase anything.

[chrisbarney]

joomla there are modules that change the url to static that help up rankings big time

[johnxuster]

Drupal is not all gold, but it is way better. Mostly it is hard to get by good structured up to date information. This is especially important.

[Peter (IMC)]

Originally Posted by chrisbarney

joomla there are modules that change the url to static that help up rankings big time

You.12/mean,8,2/3.these/kinds,of,url/s?

[Webnauts]

For a shop I recommend ubercart.org (Drupal based).

[Addler]

We've had customers use ZenCart with great success. Will echo chrisbarney's comment on Joomla about search engine friendly URLs. If you Google: search engine friendly URLs in JOOMLA, there are many relevant pages to show you how to do this.