patterns.biz

Forum topic kitt decided around 07:31 on 6 July 2004 to publish this:

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Software requirements for patterns.biz base package

Search functionality
- Customizable
- Complete
- minimum DB load
Keywords for products
- Search
- Categories / product groupings
Multiple product categories
- Designer
- stitch
- pattern subject
- ...
Customizable product page
Customer feedback
Product ratings
User accounts
- Order tracking (open, status, history)
- Feedback ratings history (can be custom)
Extensible
with modules, templates or plugins
Integrates with desired payment services (authorize.net, etc.)
Need to determine authorization payment processor
CSS customizable
Minimal tables, maximum CSS
Good administration functionality (define this better)
Multiple product admins (designers, etc.) or permission levels
Allows downloads
- PDFs, etc.
- Can be a plugin
- Needs to be extensible since we'll be adding a new step (date/order/name stamp, cover page, encryption)
Can order without creating a user account
We can probably add this later
Featured product
You-might-also-like functionality

Permalink Submitted by kitt on Tue, 2004-07-06 13:40

Should have a customizable front page, preferably something that can be mostly static.

Permalink Submitted by kitt on Wed, 2004-07-07 22:02

Permalink Submitted by kitt on Wed, 2004-07-07 22:04

action shots
beginner/advanced
On the product form:
- Supplementary instructions on techniques
- add tools to cart
- add missing tools (or other additional tools)

Permalink Submitted by kitt on Thu, 2004-09-23 12:14

Feedback, user comments, ratings (3 stars of 5)

How long to complete a project (correctly rated as beginner, advanced, etc.)

"action shots"

Feedback: how complete are the instructions?
easy to follow?
time to complete?

On order: supplementary instructions on techniques
add tools to cart
add missing tools (additional tools)

whatevs