opus

First, does anyone know if Prewear.com engine is available in some package from anyone? If someone can explain to me how they have their 20 products or so that can show up, accurately, with school names, colors, logos, etc;

Here's my problem. I need a webdesigner. I'm not just selling t-shirts (non-custom), but I'm also selling about 6 other products - and that's it.

I feel, because of my inexperience, that it's like a 16 year old female taking her car to a mechanic. I really don't want to get screwed.

Are there canned QUALITY sites that I can have access to my images appearing on the shirts? DecoNetwork said they were overkill for me but didn't send me anywhere. I want to sell T-Shirts/Plaques/Pins/Patches/ and some other stuff. So, it's not strictly a T-Shirt site - but do need something that will impose on the product like prepwear.com

 

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pdpatch

Even though you are starting off with just 6 products you want to expand. so when your looking you need to look to the future. Don't ignore a shopping cart because it does to much for those first 6 products you will be selling.

Most specilaty carts are geared to sell one type of product, so you need a more general solution, one that is more versatile. Don't ignore those carts that are "Open Source", there are those site that have half million and million dollar sales out there that use open source.

You only really need a "WEB Designer" for the look and feel of a site. Many open Source carts have templates, free and paid ones. Just drop in place and go, or tweak the style sheet for some changes so your site looks unique.

Tom

 

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opus

Do you have recommendations? And what about that site prepwar.com? Also, where can I get images of different color tshirts and hoods that are good resolution that I can have my design superimposed on the shirt. See, all my products need to have a customized design on them . I don't want to photobraph everything if I have to, I'd rather have the image of the product that is high quality and my image goes on there - the Dog Tags, the plaques. The patches and pins I'll get designed and receive .jpgs.

 

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hostingdiva

The Prewear.com web site is using PrestaShop Free Open-Source e-Commerce Software for Web 2.0. But, if you don't have experience, this is not what you want to use. If you're looking for an easy system to use, you'll need a do it yourself system that can accomodate people who don't know what they're doing. There are many out there - take a look at my sig for one.

Regarding superimposing your images on clothing. This is something you can easily do yourself. You do not need high resolution images for the web - this isn't print. You only need high res for the web if you're expecting people to be able to zoom in on designs - which you shouldn't because those kinds of features cost a lot more money and superimposing is going to be a lot more work.

For the web, a good picture size in about 500x500. The one image I checked in prewear.com is 600x600. This means that you just need to find plain pictures of shirts that are within that range - you can go as far down as 300x300 and just do a "zoom" on your design. You can pictures of plain shirts pretty much anywhere but you should start with the company from whom you actually buy shirts. Then use PhotoShop or whatever graphics program you use and superimpose the images. If you need more specifics on how to do this, feel free to PM me.

You can hire someone to do this for you but I am not aware of any prepackaged program that will do this for you. Just because I don't know about it though, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I hope this answers some of your questions.

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pdpatch

I found prewear.com by Black Duck Inc. -- Prudential Real Estate Apparel and Accessories - Customized Men's Technical Jersey Polo ,
if this is the site and what is done. Then it's build on prestashop,

PrestaShop Free Open-Source e-Commerce Software for Web 2.0

As far as how good it is, I have never heard of it in the Normal E-commerce channels and development.
so I can say how good or bad it is. But as far as coding technique it uses what you see in globs and CMS's
rather then what is used in most open source E-commerce, carts if have dealt with.

This cart is open source, license under the gpl 3.0, So the basic cart has no up front cost as far as purchasing it.

As far as prouduct images, some suppliers have images that you can use. I would not use them form actual t-shirt and product makers. I have just tweaked the tone ect.. to change the color of t-.shirts.

Most of the carts I have worked with int he past are based on OS Commerce, which does not have some of the image features this cart has on the product page, but these could be done.

Tom

 

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pdpatch

Opps while I was writing my reply Hostingdiva answered. The zoom effect and overlaying your design on an image, was done using a couple of Jquery script. Jquery is a javascript engine that prewrites a lot of code that can be reused.

 

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