The cool cats at shopify got my name up in lights. Thanks guys!
Now get that API out the door, and beef up your tax tables. Our team cant wait to use you again!
Tags: shopify, shamless self promotion, api
…while cleaning up my account over at dreamhost, I was consolidating databases and somehow, inadvertently removed the hostname for the database that this blog pointed to…but not the database itself. luckily i caught the problem, pointed to the right hostname, and now all is back to normal.
Apologies for the downtime.
I just posted a new case study in conjunction with our latest launch, our first implimentation of Shopify by JadedPixel, and the first project we did in conjunction with Evolve Studios.
The case study is pretty detailed, and covers about how we used the product to launch an ecommerce solution in a very short turnaround. What I didn’t get to talk about in the case study was how flexible Shopify was with it’s templating language, Vision. From what I can tell (but I’m not 100% sure since I can’t get under the hood of Shopify), the templating language is really just some cleaned up syntax, and a system that lets you easily edit the View files of a Ruby on Rails based e-commerce system. To oversimplify things, a base “view” (or template) is created, and then specific function-based display modules are called…be they for product collections, product details, or the cart.
This is a really smart way of building maintainable code, and allowing someone without a whole lot of programming knowledge to make simple updates to their layout without needing to worry about (or ever see) all of the cogs and sprockets under the hood.
I plan to post a more detailed account of my experience, because there were some obstacles: some were overcome, some will have to wait on the development team to roll out some new features, most importantly, an API.
Until then, check out the case study, the newly launched Surfers Supplies shop, and the Shopify site!
Tags: launch, surfer supplies, shopify, jadedpixel, evolve studios