Myself and Andrew were creating a website this week for an Irish language learning resources company. They want to focus more on getting online orders than they previously had. Digilogue decided that the best solution for that was to use the J2 Store component. What this does is make articles into items for sale. You can then click the 'add to cart' button within the article and create your order this way. In order to specify an article as an item for sale, you use the J2 Store tab within the article to enable the cart, set the price and enable shipping. You can create shipping methods within the J2Store component itself.
This is a really handy way to create shopping cart functionality. However, it doesn't link to a database which means you have to update quantities manually.
I also created pop-out images for the site using the JCE MediaBox plugin for JCE Editor. This involved linking a thumbnail image to a larger image so that when you click on the thumbnail, a lightbox featuring the larger image appears. This gives a nice detailed view of the products.
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