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DataTables-Create Highly flexible and interactive html tables

Mohan — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:32:01 +0000

DataTables is a highly flexible jQuery plug-in that allows to add advanced functionalities and interaction control to HTML tables in simple steps.

Some of the functionalities provided by DatTables are:

Customizable pagination
Search on HTML tables content
Multi-Column sorting based on data type
Display data from multiple data sources
Full Internationalization
Elegant handling of column widts
Vast variety of plug-ins extending DataTables for customized functionality

LiteCommerce-Open Source ecommerce Solution with CMS

Mohan — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:46:30 +0000

LiteCommerce is an open source and free e-commerce solution that is integrated with Drupal to make best use of powerful CMS utilities. Integrating with Drupal is optional and it can also work as standalone online store.

Integrating with Drupal makes it more powerful by allowing to use tons of ready-made modules, using SEO with the ability to create search engine frienly URL and custom meta tags for products, categories and other website pages.

LiteCommerce‘s features list include:

Ability to manage storefront sections and blocks using Drupal user interface
Easy customization without hacks to core files simplifying the upgrades
Clean default layout and customizable design & layout
Unlimited number of products and categories
Inventory tracking based on product or product variation
Product import from CSV files
Discounts, wholesale pricing & gift certificates
Featured products, recently added products and best sellers
AJAXized catalog pages with drag & drop shopping cart functionality
Wish list & recently viewed products
Customizable tax calculation, product specific taxes & tax exempt feature
Configurable date/time formats & currency symbol

AgoraCart-Powerful and Secure ecommerce Shopping Cart Software

Mohan — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:50:55 +0000

AgoraCart is a powerful, secure and open source ecommerce shopping cart software. It bundles a default template allowing you to install and setup the online store quickly. Alternately, custom templates can also be integrated to create a custom look & feel for your shopping cart application.

AgoraCart provides almost limitless flexibility in customizing the application in many areas that includes user interface of the online shop through CSS or layout customizations. Custom product categories can also be created in AgoraCart very easily. Powerful modules and script add-ons are also made available by AgoraCart for their members.

Zeus Cart-Rich UI and Highly Usable Shopping Cart Software

Mohan — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:14:41 +0000

Zeus Cart is a rich UI, highly stable, usable and Open Source shopping cart software. Zeus Cart is mainly designed for Small & medium scale store operations. It includes a number of marketing-tailored features that help the store owners increase online sales, promote repeat purchases and increased customer satisfaction

Zeus Cart requires minimal effort for installation and maintenance. It provides a product attribute based layered navigation instead of the common category structure creating unique user experience.

Zeus Cart features include:

Richly-Interfaced Shopping cart
Easy handling & maintainability
Enhanced Products/Items management features
Multiple payment gateway supportive
Secure & Stable
AJAX based admin UI
Digital product download
Customer group management
Customer group based discounts
Graphical statistics in admin panel
Getting started links

PrestaShop-Free and Powerful Shopping Cart Software

Mohan — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:04:24 +0000

PrestaShop is an e-commerce shopping cart software that is rich in UI and functionality. PrestaShop is one of the few e-commerce applications that achieves very good performance rating in terms of speed. Hundreds of features and addons are available in various areas of e-commerce activities. These help you increase the usability of the application and customize the application as per your needs.

PrestaShop is available under Open Software License v.3.0 and is freely downloadable. Powerful back-end application helps the store admins manage inventory, orders, customers & payments in a simple manner.

Most prominent features of PrestaShop e-commerce solution are:

Unlimited categories, subcategories and products
Quantity discounts and wishlist
Customizable products (picture, text etc)
Ability to create customers’ groups
Loyalty system (points) and Customer referral program
Customizable orders statuses and returns management
Special offers (promotions, coupons)
Statistics related to visitors, orders and sales
Unlimited languages support and Online Translation tool
Unlimited currencies and Exchange rates synchronization
Customizable Back-Office
Ability to add complementary modules and SMS alerts (inventory, new order etc)
Easy template customization
Ability to insert ads and integrate Google Adsense

Zen Cart-Free Open Source Shopping Cart Software

Mohan — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:32:12 +0000

Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The e-commerce web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently. This makes the Zen Cart e-commerce solution focus on merchants and requirements first. The features, options and the level of support offered by Zen Cart makes it stay far ahead of other e-commerce solutions.

Hundreds of Addons and Modules are available for free allowing you to customize the look & feel and functionality as per the business needs.

Some features of Zen Cart e-commerce solution include:

Easy installation
Multiple customer modes
Unlimited category depth
Multiple display modes
Easy to customize XHTML template system
Ad banner controller
Multiple Shipping and Payment options
Newsletter manager
Multiple sales and discount coupons
Gift certificates
Featured products

osCommerce Online Merchant-Online Store Solution

Mohan — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:24:57 +0000

If you are looking to expand your business to sell your products online, its quite possible that you will find it difficult to find a better e-commerce solution that matches your business model. Since your site will be completely built up on the e-commerce solution you choose, its highly possible that the e-commerce solution is not going to change. So you need to consider various features of the e-commerce solution you want to use with utmost care else you might be spending lot of money changing your e-commerce solution.

With the revolution of Open Source trend, lot of e-commerce solutions are created and are available for free. To help you choose the best e-commerce solution, I am going to write a series of blogs covering some best Open Source e-commerce solutions available. In each blog, I introduce you a new e-commerce solution that you can get for free and try your hands on before you decide to go with it.

As part of this series, the first e-commerce solution we are going to cover is osCommerce Online Merchant, which is a popular Open Source online shop e-commerce solution. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality allowing one to setup, run and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees or limitations.

Thousands of add-ons are available for free allowing you to customize osCommerce Online Merchant to suit to your business model helping in increasing sales.

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osCommerce Online Merchant has a catalog front-end and an administration tool back-end which makes it a complete online store solution. These features can be easily installed and configured over a web-based installation procedure.

Some noticeable features of osCommerce Online Merchant are:

Multilingual support with English, German, and Spanish available by default
Template implementation allowing layout changes quick and easy
Support for shippable and downloadable products
Generate statistics for products and customers
Multicurrency support with automatic update of currency exchange rates
Allows various offline payment processing (cheque, money orders etc.)
Allows multiple online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net etc.)
Can disable certain payment services based on a zone basis
Flexible tax implementation with different tax rates for different products in different states and countries

Speedy AJAX development using Clean AJAX

Mohan — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:35:28 +0000

Clean AJAX is an open source engine for AJAX, which provides easy to use interface for AJAX implementation. Clean AJAX is based on successful design patterns and inspired by Java Message Service API. It is developed in pure javascript letting you to use it with any other javascript framework.

Some features of Clean AJAX are:

Uses messages for AJAX requests
Provides message queue, XSLT and encryption (SHA1, MD5)
Web Service access using SOAP, JSON-RPC and XML-RPC protocols
Provides control over AJAX Cache and history
Can be used with any server side language
Small learning curve
Just one facade to work with AJAX
Easy to customize message’s behavior
Garbage collection
Cross browser AJAX (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera)

Rapid Web Development using Blueprint CSS Framework

Mohan — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:12:57 +0000

Blueprint is a CSS Framework that makes your web development quick and easy. Blueprint provides a strong foundation for building your project on top of it.

Some features offered by blueprint that cuts down your web development time are:

An easy-to-use grid layout which supports even more complex layouts
A CSS reset which eliminates the discrepancies across browsers
Form styles to generate rich user interface
Print styles that makes your webpage paper ready in no time
Sensible typography and plugins for buttons, tabs & sprites

Stylish Compact News Previewer with jQuery

Mohan — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:45:54 +0000

Compact News Previewer is a jQuery plugin that allows creating a User Interface Widget for displaying News with preview.

The News Previewer shows some articles on the left side. You can also have pagination for the news articles list displayed on the left side to accommodate more number of articles. On the right side you can have more details of the news with full description which can include images as well. When you click on news item on the left, preview on the right side will slide down.

Tutorial on how to create this plugin is available with detailed description at the website link provided here.