XARA AND ECOMMERCE

**BOB WISE** · 15 September 2010, 05:30 PM

I assume that the Xara website was created using ''Xara Software''. So what are they using to integrate ecommerce into their site? Does anyone have an idea? If not what ecommerce software has anyone used that is somewhat simple and clean,for a small amount of products, much like the Xara offerings.

Thanks for any insights!
Bob Wise

**Drwyd** · 15 September 2010, 05:47 PM

Xara.com was not made with xara xtreme or designer.

There are some Paypal and Google Checkout widgets in the galleries that you might find useful.

**Cloud** · 15 September 2010, 06:36 PM

I think the day that the xara website is produced using xara products will be a great day. I have just done a 'shopping' site using paypal, it is really easy

Kash

**gwpriester** · 15 September 2010, 07:58 PM

Go Niners! (SF was my former residence)

Have a look at http://www.ecwid.com/ This looks like a fairly sophisticated front end e-commerce solution.

My guess is Xara.com was designed in Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is much better suited to large websites that require custom programming and data-base integration.

There are quite a number of shopping cart websites, many which you can customize to match your own website.

And of course, there is PayPal which is universal and fairly easy to set up. The best part is you only pay a fee when you have a transaction. No monthly merchant fees, etc.

**aknight** · 14 October 2010, 10:12 AM

So can you use web designer 6 for your ecommerce needs -my friend wants to sell books and have a paypal page for when people buy the books- can web designer 6 let you create pages with photos of a product and price options

**Urfixable** · 29 January 2011, 01:19 AM

I noticed you are from NM (Alto)we are as well. I checked out the www.ecwid.com... have you checked into it? I looked it over and it seems to be too good to be true. Do you know of some that are using the service?

**Pixelpusher** · 29 January 2011, 07:20 AM

I would suggest Coffee Cup Cart Creator Pro and Cart Designer Pro. I recently put together a 2,000 item E-Commerce site with this software and it is great. I would show you an example but we have not gone live with it yet. I just created a link in the Xara site that links to the index.php of the cart and it is seamless.

I'll post a link as soon as we go live.

**maderemark** · 11 April 2011, 11:43 AM

Have you made your e-commerce site live yet? Are you happy with the results? Anything else you want to say about your experience with Coffee Cup Cart Creator Pro and Cart Designer Pro?

**bb2** · 11 April 2011, 01:22 PM

Ecwid is available from the ecommerce folder from within 'Widgets, Forms and More (download) section of the Designs gallery. The Google Store gadget is also a new addition within this category. The widgets guide will be updated shortly to provide additional details on using these services.

Thanks

**mwenz** · 11 April 2011, 01:31 PM

While this is a resurrected old thread, I did look at the Xara web site's source and also the BuiltWith add-on in FireFox. Seems Xtreme 5 was used to build the xara.com web site from what I can tell.

Code:

<td><a href="/us/products/designer/"><img src="/theme/xtreme5/subnav_left_designer.png" align="left" alt=""/></a></td>

And from BuiltWith...

Code:

Content Management Systems
Xara Web Designer
Xara Web Designer Usage Statistics - Websites using Xara Web Designer

Template based web design software.

Take care, Mike