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Can Opencart be used as an information site ?

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:03 pm
by pressplay
I have been searching Mods, Themes, Extensions and everywhere else i can think of but cant find a solution.

I would like to use the opencart install for an information only site IE: no shopping or products, info only. Looked into wordpress but i prefer to stay with Opencart if possible. Would like to have the option of adding shopping cart later but not important at this stage.

Have an Ecommerce site www.pressplaymusic.com.au but i would like to have a seperate site for our distribution side. We offer distribution of music there but no products and i want to seperate the 2

If anyone knows of any themes or extensions that may do could you please let me know.

Thanks
Chris

Re: Can Opencart be used as an information site ?

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:04 am
by Jeremy Fisk
you most certainly can... just disable delet all the products & product related modules and all they will see is the info stuff (obviously you will have to hide all the cart links etc etc

cheers

jem

Re: Can Opencart be used as an information site ?

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:15 am
by pressplay
Thanks, yes thought of that but was wondering if there was something out there to give more options

Re: Can Opencart be used as an information site ?

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:19 am
by Jeremy Fisk
pressplay wrote:Thanks, yes thought of that but was wondering if there was something out there to give more options
like what sort of options

Re: Can Opencart be used as an information site ?

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:48 am
by pressplay
If i go that way i think i have to create a category for a page. Example if i want a page called "Distribution Services" i need to make a category called this. Then all info is entered into Description field of that cat' so if i want to add an images or 3 and text etc it all has to lined up manually.

This also still gives me the standard white background etc and could look plain and boring.
So i guess what im looking for is some sort of theme to make it more user friendly and "pretty"

Re: Can Opencart be used as an information site ?

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:51 am
by pressplay
So i guess im looking to do something similar to the site on your signature www.qualchem.co.nz

Re: Can Opencart be used as an information site ?

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:21 am
by Jeremy Fisk
pressplay wrote:So i guess im looking to do something similar to the site on your signature http://www.qualchem.co.nz
I have created a theme for both opencart and wordpress bassed on that site.

It is clientarea.qualchem.co.nz

also, feel free to look at www (dot) modehandcare (dot) co (dot) nz
sorry id ont want it as a hyperlink as it still isn't a finished site.

cheers

jem