I've got forum software installed running some web sites.
I've got other sites on e-commerce type software.
Both of these are commercial packages.
It would seem as though a forum/CMS solution has a little less to do than an e-commerce type platform.
On the other hand, the forum software code LOOKS better and runs at least an order of magnitude faster than the e-commerce platform.
Is that your general experience as well?
I have no answer, as I've never used any commercial software in my development career.
Hmmm.... is it fair to compare curtainsiders with swinglifts?
What you describe seems to be the impression I get as well. There may be a degree of eating your own dogfood involved, since someone marketing a CMS would (you'd expect) be using that CMS and showing off all the bells&whistles; they would only be using an e-commerce system in ways that match how they operate commercially.
When I did work that made me an end-user of software applications aimed at the business market, I learned just how much nicer software developed for software development is by comparison.
Don't you need to name names to let us know what is being compared ?
Magento is notorious (as I'm sure you know) when set up straight out of the box - though it beats me what the heck it has to do that makes it slow even on sites of a few hundred products. Never been near any commercial forum /cms stuff.
Well, if management finds out I'm naming names they might be upset. We live in such fear of overseas competition such that the boss doesn't want anyone knowing what we run (we've not bothered to tell him that it doesn't take too much I.T. experience to know exactly what we're running just by looking around a bit).
Let's say that for the forum SW, "You're soaking in it" (to quote a really old TV commercial & give away $my_age). And I've little experience with Magento (though there is a Magento house almost within driving distance; maybe if this company doesn't float I could work there), but I hear you, and the platform we're on seems to be just as bad. Either that, or the plugins we purchased are.
At least I'm not doing content curation any longer. Managed to close 5 tickets already today. I think that's about equal to my output for the last 60 days where bugs are concerned...
Weedpacket;11006695 wrote:curtainsiders...
Gee ... are you in the trucking business now?
Weedpacket wrote:When I did work that made me an end-user of software applications aimed at the business market, I learned just how much nicer software developed for software development is by comparison.
Hmm, I wonder if I've noticed that, too. Kind of like "if you want to sell cars to mechanics, you'd better build them marvelously", eh?
We’ve used Magento on several occasions, and it’s a great eCommerce platform, but even on a virtual dedicated server, we found it to be very very very slow and the client has been very unhappy with it. We didn’t do anything to slow it down, and tried every tip and trick out there to speed it up with very little success.
We have been debating using open cart, but will be setting it up on our own servers with plenty of test products prior to using it with a client. The back end looks very nice.
SupolKt;11029355 wrote:We’ve used Magento on several occasions, and it’s a great eCommerce platform, but even on a virtual dedicated server, we found it to be very very very slow and the client has been very unhappy with it. We didn’t do anything to slow it down, and tried every tip and trick out there to speed it up with very little success.
We have been debating using open cart, but will be setting it up on our own servers with plenty of test products prior to using it with a client. The back end looks very nice.
[noparse][/pastblast][/noparse]
Thanks. I've looked at OpenCart, and was impressed enough by its {relative} ease-of-use (documentation? who wants to write that?) to set it up as a "quickie" for a personal project, but would be interested in hearing your impressions if you do use it professionally (or do the above-mentioned testing).
