Can I make my store look and operate like Beatport.com?

30 Mar 2009, 12:48 AM

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Can I make my store look and operate like Beatport.com?

Would it be possible to make Zencart look and behave like beatport.com ? or does anyone know what CMS/e-commerce platform they're using? It's such a great music site to use.

30 Mar 2009, 1:51 AM

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Re: Can I make my store look and operate like Beatport.com?

Sure you can. That's easy. You just need a menu and all your pages filled with relevant Google ads.

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30 Mar 2009, 5:41 PM

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Re: Can I make my store look and operate like Beatport.com?

Ok...

That doesnt make much sense to me...

What about the site Masterbeat.com ? How did they make that site and how would you go about converting a Zencart shop to look and act like Masterbeat.com ? That one and Beatport look very similar...

30 Mar 2009, 7:26 PM

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Re: Can I make my store look and operate like Beatport.com?

This is very likely a custom site (meaing they hired someone to create it from scratch). You might be able to reproduce something similar using Zen Cart, but it'll take time and work.

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31 Mar 2009, 6:54 PM

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Re: Can I make my store look and operate like Beatport.com?

Wow! That's better. That's a nice site. Lot of flash work. Hope you're good with flash.

It CAN happen, but it will take you AGES by yourself. Good luck.

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4 Jul 2009, 3:20 PM

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fran

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Re: Can I make my store look and operate like Beatport.com?

I wouldnt know where to start but there has to be a simple enough way to share the variables between Zencart and Flash, there's an oscommerce mod that says it can do something like this but ive yet to see a kind of Flash front end for Zencart, how cool would it be to have Zencart running in the background sending data to Flash for the front end site.

Is there any news out there from anyone experimenting with Zencart and Flash/SwishMax?