Configurable products on websites.

[einsign]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 13 December 2014 at 20:30

[Siscar]

It rather depends on your budget, are you thinking 3 figures, 4, 5 or 6?

[Siscar]

A problem is that you are asking for a range of skills, whilst you could work with an independent it would be hard for you to know if they had all the skills needed and you would become reliant on them to maintain it and it could become pretty high maintenance. For a company you are talking about something that is fairly bespoke and pretty time consuming, for someone good with the right skills it's going to be 5 figures, perhaps well into 5 figures but it's not going to be attractive if dependent on cashflow, doing work but having your income depending on when your customer having some cash isn't great.

I am in IT, but although one of my companies does web development including ecommerce this isn't really something we would take on because it is bespoke and unless it comes with a decent budget it could be a nightmare, somewhere out there will probably be people who specialise in this stuff and they are the people to talk to, just be skeptical that unless you can see existing similar work for other customers that they really know what they are doing.

[jonamv8]

Franklingruppe.com - a 3D company who also offer web & mobile development

[DSLiverpool]

You need a modular site that takes custom coding, see what magento gives you immediately and the add ons will get most of your spec but you will have to compromise along the way (or find serious money) - speak to Jammy

[Altrezia]

We could do this - a lot of our e-commerce site have unique features

[jammy_basturd]

DSLiverpool said:

You need a modular site that takes custom coding, see what magento gives you immediately and the add ons will get most of your spec but you will have to compromise along the way (or find serious money) - speak to Jammy

Thanks DS. PM sent.

[billythekid001]

Hi einsign,

I'd second the principal of taking an off the shelf product such as Magento and then extending it. I run a web development company so if you haven't found a solution already then feel free to get in touch.

Billy

[Siscar]

If you are talking about a public website your issue there would be browser comparability, if it's internal you are ok, you can make sure that everyone has a compatible browser, but right now I'd guess that the number of people using browsers that could render WebGL and CSS 3D is small. The hateful IE is still the main one in use and you we have to be on 11 for any support of WebGL which is a big limit.

Lots of techies here, the problem is that you are talking something specialist here making it a bit harder to find them.

[bishbash]

Have a look at unity3d, it's a 3d games development platform, but I'm pretty sure it could do this type of thing too. The end user would have to download a browser plug-in to use the end product, but going by your last post I'm not sure this is a major issue for you.

Found this http://www.bikeconfig.com/ on the unity website and it looks similar to what I believe you are after.

Edited by bishbash on Tuesday 25th February 21:41

[H18 ENF]

Hi,

There is a strong possibility that I can do this for you. I shall drop you an PM to find out some further details, if that's ok?

Cheers

[cuneus]

http://pro.opentshirts.com/index.php?route=studio/...

[bishbash]

cuneus said:

http://pro.opentshirts.com/index.php?route=studio/...

That's 2d only, to be honest any half decent developer should be able to build something like that (given a reasonable amount of time/budget) It's the 3d side of things that's tricky. Even if all browsers supported 3d (web gl) it would still be a fairly big/complex job.

[cuneus]

bishbash said:

That's 2d only, to be honest any half decent developer should be able to build something like that (given a reasonable amount of time/budget) It's the 3d side of things that's tricky. Even if all browsers supported 3d (web gl) it would still be a fairly big/complex job.

Well as you say 3d is probably not realistic

Why reinvent the wheel and could you do it for £35?

Of course it may not be suitable for the OP

[H18 ENF]

With a little playing I managed to put this online. Of course it has no changeable items but you can manipulate it in 3D Space.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13944926/penny...

P.S I know it's not a penny farthing but after the first 4 tests I ran out of ways of naming a file 'Bike'...

I have sent a PM of this to the OP as I believe we can build what he is after.

[warp9]

Hi. Try calling Julian Mitchell at http://digitalannexe.com/ on 0845 456 6042. They do all the online configurables for a number of car manufacturers. Should be able to help.

[anonymous-user]

I am absolutely certain that this would be a bit pricey, but it seems it would do the job

http://www.rtt.ag/en

Maybe a bit more sensible moneywise could be this

http://www.doogma.com/ with some good examples at http://www.doogma.com/clients.html

or

http://www.configureone.com

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 8th November 18:18

[insurance_jon]

A friend of mine runs a massive IT recruitment co. Do you want putting in touch. He's great at translating needs and will more than likely just point you in the right direction than flog you a candidate

[MitchT]

Bookmarked as this is something I'll be needing next year too

[jonamv8]

BGARK - Would like to discuss this with you via phone. Involved in a couple of configurable product projects at present, mainly in the specifications market but the philosophy remains the same. Would you be up for a chat, I checked your profile and couldn't find anything.

PM me if interested