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I’ve started a little progress blog for the development of my attempt at a CubeCart Mod - follow it here.

Over summer I completely redesigned the website for a ladies clothes shop in Glossop in England called Anna Perena, and I’m currently working on a modification for a php/mysql shopping cart called CubeCart for when Anna Perena expands to online sales. The current website only contains a gallery of products and contact information, but probably some time next year they are planning to launch an online shop.

Cubecart seems the perfect software to use, it’s cheap/free and relatively simple to use. During my research I tried out a lot of shopping carts and nearly all of them were extremely complicated to work, (except notably osCommerce which shows promise for the future - I found it’s major draw back to be that it currenly has not implemented a facility to skin/theme the shop, so changing how the shop looks is pretty hard work). Cubecart does almost everything a small online shop would need, it even has static pages a bit like Wordpress, the only exception is that while it allows you to set options for a product (ie available in large, medium, and small), it does not allow you to track the stock-level of these options - hence the mod I’m working on.

There is already one mod out there by Estelle called Stock Levels for Product Options, which seems to do the job, but it’s ¬£12 and the user interface is not very novice-user friendly. I currently have a working version of my mod but I want to improve the Product options admin panel as well as the stock level notification on the product information page.

If anyone has any ideas or input for this mod then I’d be pleased to hear.

There is a new updated version of dTabs out, as well as a shiny new theme to show how the dynamic tabs work

Instructions on how to download and install a Mac OS X driver for Sony Ericsson USB cables has been added to our downloads section.

home.dtcnet.co.uk is a new public service developed by dtc. It’s a simple idea: a home page containing popular search engines and useful links …and no advertisements or rubbish!

It’s a fairly basic service at the moment, but in the future we plan to make it user customisable with the ability for users to change and save their own preferences such as the style of the page, default search engines, and links.