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I am developing a brochure/ecommerce site for my employer. The number of ecommerce products, in total, will be quite small. Less than 500 quite likely.
The most important feature of the site is that it must provide better than average content. The products are high end and low volume, and we need the content to be very good and unique. Many of the products won't be available for online sale, due to shipping and other concerns. Unfortunately, it seems that most of the ecommerce/CMS systems available don't lend themselves well to brochure type information.
I have access to Miva Merchant, and of course osCommerce. In my eyes, I think I'd be better off using Miva, as I'm more or less clueless.
I want to develop a fairly comprehensive three column CSS derived navigation system, but this is not apparently easy or cheap to do with Miva. You can turn off headers, footers, and navigation with Miva and build your own static navigation system. As I don't plan on having more than ten or twelve categories, I think this would be manageable.
I've found that I can nest a Miva dynamically generated page in a HTML document using the OBJECT element. Playing around with this a bit, it seemed to work fairly well.
Is this kind of setup a bad idea? Does anyone have a less roundabout or prettier solution available? I'm fairly concerned about what happens to SE results of such a setup as well.
Thank you in advance,
Garrett
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