Forum OpenACS Q&A: New OpenACS site just launched - Royal.com!

Hi all,

Well, my company has finally launched www.royal.com. We are using OpenACS 3.2.2 (I think). The main functionality is the ecommerce module, although it's barely being used. We're currently working on store.royal.com which will be where users can actually purchase product. That will be the latest 3.2.4 and hopefully up and running soon! We're also using the News module in the site.

The cool thing is that Royal is a HUGE company, so this lends a big name to our favorite toolkit.

There have been some issues reported of the DNS not working properly, so if you get to a real ugly white background site, that's not it.

Thanks to everyone who helped get this beast going. Especially to James Shannon who did a lot of customization to the ecommerce module to get it to work the way the client wanted!

Scott

I'd love any details on the ecommerce module, too!  The site looks sharp.

In it's current incarnation ecommerce is being used as a glorified dynamic brochure. The next version of the site (hopefully soon) will have links into actually being able to purchase items. So, other than that, the only other ACS module is news which is being used for press releases (http://www.royal.com/news/ of course!).

Royal is going to be at Comdex, but I don't know if I'll make it. I'm actually a third party developer. We also created Edulix.com a while ago. I'd love to come out and meet all the ACS guys, though. I'll look into making it.

And, yes Roberto, there's a bit too much Flash for even MY liking! But you gotta go with what the client wants. :)

Scott

p.s. if you think THAT's a lot of Flash, check out the site we just built for ourselves http://www.icentris.com . That link in the upper right to Client Extranet is eventually going to link into the Intranet module...once it gets figured out!