Hi,
I was asked by a friend earlier in the week about doing a website. Usually, I create sites using Dreamweaver using PHP and MySQL, but the nature of her request made me consider the whole CMS option (I have never used any CMS previously - tried Joomla a couple of days ago, hated it, tried Drupal 7 after that, seems nice so far).
Essentially, the site will be a fairly basic promotional site (About Us, Contact Us, Our Services) with a catalogue of the products she sells. Initially, there will not be any eCommerce functionality but she may want to include that option later.
The basic pages were simple enough to do (although I am yet to dabble in creating custom themes - still very much in the Drupal experimental/learning phase), but I was wondering if anybody had any advice in what to explore for the Products section? Any modules available that could be set up as a catalogue and eventually implement as a shop-front that people recommend?
The product listing will be heirarchical, for example:
Clothing
-Men
--Ties
--Socks
-Women
--Scarves
--Nylons
-Children
--Leashes
--Hobbles
Decorative
-Kitchen
--Sandwich-Statues
-Bathroom..
and so forth, and she will want to be able to configure things such as if they are single items, or items per box, as well as price, order codes and other store-type things