< 2A Surfride.com redesign
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anyone spot the clue in the urls ?
cPath anything means this is a mangled/hacked front-end for zen cart/oscommerce..
As someone who has lost sleep over trying to follow threads thru oscomm. they have a grudging respect from me, lol.. Its simple to make simple amends to the stadard interface, but to actually bolt on some custom menu items, create custom pages etc means you really have to learn how the whole thing works. Being open source, and added onto bit by bit over a long time means it's one of the spaghettiest bundles of code you could ever happen upon..
I reckon said board company has had the oscomm. set up for a while, and have gone to 2A, said 'we want a full e-comm site', got major sticker-shock, at which point 2A have said 'well, we can do you a nice front-end for your current setup', and the deal has been struck.
Im so over bashing 2A, there's no such thing as accidental success.. They have a look, however populist or long-lived it may be, and they do it very well, pretty much nailing every site they do. Considering Eric has gone from just him to a team of a couple of dozen now, I think it is, and has managed to steer the operation in the direction he wanted, kept on top of staff, growth and production to produce a consistent stream of product, with clients beating down the doors with their checkbooks, Im not going to blatently criticize their approach.. If they came to me, and lets be honest, 99% of NT, to you too, with nice chuncks of freelance work, to be completed in a 2A style, we'd all take them up on their offer.
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