New Hyrax site up and running
I finally managed to get the Hyrax International LLC web site up and running — it’s really amazing what you can do with WordPress and a few plugins. Not at all like “back in the day” when we hand-coded this stuff in Perl and HTML1.0.
I still need to look into the “right” e-commerce solution, but so far it appears Instinct’s WP e-Commerce plugin is the winner. It’s a solid, mature platform and with a few of the add-ons you can build some really fantastic one-click or one-drag shopping experiences. IconDock has one of the best examples — not that I’m leaning toward that experience for Hyrax, but it is pretty slick.
Shopify is probably the runner up. It’s feature rich and has the added marketability of Pixar and C-net endorsement. It’s also got a rich feature set, but doesn’t have the robustness and sheer number of options and add-ons that Instinct’s product has. Both are widely used though, so it’s really a matter of doing the technical due diligence to figure out which one is the best fit.
