Time for more learnin'! Following an earlier reading and review of Drupal 6 Ultimate Community Site Guide, I plan on plunging into Packt Publishing's Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x
. Ubercart (documentation) is one of the more popular – perhaps the most popular? – shopping cart solutions ready-made for Drupal. I've heard lots of good thing about it, but as you'd expect, an e-commerce solution for your site is not the sort of thing you knock out in a slow afternoon. Making a real online store for real products takes lots of planning and testing.
I've only played with Ubercart in the past, making a simple test store to check out its capabilities. With a full-blown book in hand, I'll undertake more serious study. Glancing through the contents, I see Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x covers creation of a working e-store, with useful side forays into topics like Drupal installation, general configuration, Panels, SEO, security, and store-related theming. (I'm probably cool with the Drupal installation and configuration basics, but could stand to learn more about those other asides.)
Looks like good stuff; I will definitely post a review of the book. In the meantime, the interested can pick up a copy via Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x (Amazon affiliate link; helps pay the bandwidth!), or visit the Packt Publishing page, or just check out a free PDF sample excerpt.
(PS: I looked up the status of the other well-known Drupal shopping cart module package, e-Commerce, and was surprised to see that it's in development mode awaiting full Drupal 6 release. In the past I'd heard many good things about e-Commerce from its fans. Does anyone reading this have experience with e-Commerce? Any thoughts on how it and Ubercart compare?)
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