Hi Good day
people have suggested lately that i must buy a proper theme for every thing i want to do, so here is my question with ones will you advise me to purchase, i have recently started my only business and do not have a lot of funds but i can afford to buy a theme, but before i do i want to know that what i'm buying will work. i'm using open cart v3, these are the thing i'm looking for in my theme, Professional home page, categories simplify like image so at the categories, one page check out and provisional, the contact form professional look. My business is a general online retail shop.
please any help or advise will be appreciate.
Last i want to explain my self why i have ask for free extension so that every one can understand in general why i ask these question. I have recently lost my job and i want to start working for my self i do not have a lot of money but have to make something work. So please except my apologies if i have a fended some one, i know every one needs to be payed for work they have done, but my budged is very low at this point.
Thank you for all the help and hope every one will understand.
Well, themes/templates are about taste and I don't have any so I cannot advice you on that.
I just use the default V3 theme (adjusted I admit) for convenience and with that one I know exactly what is happening, where, how and why.
There is nothing wrong with looking for free extensions, perfectly fine.
I have seen some really good ones, some even better than some paid ones but also some pretty poor ones in the hack category.
(hack category = quick fix targeting symptoms without considering the end-to-end implications, they will bite you in the end)
The only thing I would watch out for are the free extensions which also have a paid version.
Generally the quality of those is poor, functionality stripped bare and support far far away.
That should not come as a surprise as the only reason for putting out a free version is to steer you towards the paid version.
The marketplace is in that sense no different from any other phone app store although I have not seen much "in-extension" ads/purchases.
Though it looks like the new version of OC (probably due in 2057) is going in that direction, shame.
If you want/need one of those free extensions which also have a paid version, better take the paid version from the start and save (perhaps not money) but a lot of time and frustration.
Good luck.
I just use the default V3 theme (adjusted I admit) for convenience and with that one I know exactly what is happening, where, how and why.
There is nothing wrong with looking for free extensions, perfectly fine.
I have seen some really good ones, some even better than some paid ones but also some pretty poor ones in the hack category.
(hack category = quick fix targeting symptoms without considering the end-to-end implications, they will bite you in the end)
The only thing I would watch out for are the free extensions which also have a paid version.
Generally the quality of those is poor, functionality stripped bare and support far far away.
That should not come as a surprise as the only reason for putting out a free version is to steer you towards the paid version.
The marketplace is in that sense no different from any other phone app store although I have not seen much "in-extension" ads/purchases.
Though it looks like the new version of OC (probably due in 2057) is going in that direction, shame.
If you want/need one of those free extensions which also have a paid version, better take the paid version from the start and save (perhaps not money) but a lot of time and frustration.
Good luck.
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The only thing you should remember when buying themes: DO NOT buy Journal theme. The rest is a matter of taste, really.
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the best opencart theme is journal
my extension:https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... estshop24h
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No, this is THE WORST OpenCart theme.
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I would tend to agree I'm afraid. I know it looks very pretty and does a lot but it's sooo complex and hard to work with.
There's a very good discussion about themes here:
viewtopic.php?t=157098
And here's a lovely theme we developed but we can't give it away free sadly:
https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=36706
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Yeah, I recently even started to charge twice more for any Journal 3 customization. Extremely dumb code, which is also heavily cached.paulfeakins wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:15 pmI would tend to agree I'm afraid. I know it looks very pretty and does a lot but it's sooo complex and hard to work with.
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They have to otherwise the internet would grind to a halt.heavily cached
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Extensions: MailQueue | SUKHR | VBoces
“Data security is paramount at [...], and we are committed to protecting the privacy of anyone who is associated with our [...]. We’ve made a lot of improvements and will continue to make them.”
When you know your life savings are gone.
Honestly that sounds fair because it does take at least 2x as long, speaking from experience also.
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Yes, there's nothing wrong with caching per se.
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It is if it's sole purpose is to remedy the symptoms of a sloppy design and/or implementation.
Crystal Light Centrum Taiwan
Extensions: MailQueue | SUKHR | VBoces
“Data security is paramount at [...], and we are committed to protecting the privacy of anyone who is associated with our [...]. We’ve made a lot of improvements and will continue to make them.”
When you know your life savings are gone.
Like Magento?
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well, let me put it this way, if you have 100+ concurrent customers happily and vigorously clicking away at your products then fine but if you only have 10 max and you cannot make your site perform without virtually page caching, then your solution is not scalable. And then caching is the last thing you can do.
I do like how jounal looks but then again, in our business, if the site looks better than the products we are in the wrong business.
Not sure about Magento, haven visited that for a long time.
I do like how jounal looks but then again, in our business, if the site looks better than the products we are in the wrong business.
Not sure about Magento, haven visited that for a long time.
Crystal Light Centrum Taiwan
Extensions: MailQueue | SUKHR | VBoces
“Data security is paramount at [...], and we are committed to protecting the privacy of anyone who is associated with our [...]. We’ve made a lot of improvements and will continue to make them.”
When you know your life savings are gone.
Still worse e-commerce solution you may find. Well, maybe OSCommerce is worse, but not sure, since it stuck in 90s.
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True OsCommerce is old, I use to have that many years ago.
Only good thing about OsCommerce was that the developers knew how the internet works, most OC developers have no clue.
Only good thing about OsCommerce was that the developers knew how the internet works, most OC developers have no clue.
Crystal Light Centrum Taiwan
Extensions: MailQueue | SUKHR | VBoces
“Data security is paramount at [...], and we are committed to protecting the privacy of anyone who is associated with our [...]. We’ve made a lot of improvements and will continue to make them.”
When you know your life savings are gone.
Isn't OpenCart a fork of OSCommerce?
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Maybe they took it as a start back in 1864, but OpenCart improved a lot since then and OSCommerce stuck in dinosaur era.
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Yep it seems to be indeed. No one uses it any more.
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