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https://rubikintegration.com/2009/08/01/design-an-online-store-with-hundreds-of-thousands-of-products/#comment-295 admin Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:22:37 +0000 http://blog.rubikintegration.com/?p=171#comment-295 Hi Matt. Thanks for stopping by. I checked out the site and it was nice, I was a bit confused by the text "For pics along the way use the menu below." though. I think when one wants to construct meaningful and convenient menu, one ought to look at how Ebay and Amazon do it. These 2 giants sell almost everything in every category so it is extremely critical for them to present products in a way that is most convenient. I particularly how Amazon shows a very short 2 level category tree (flyout menu) then when you choose one category there you will be presented with many subcategories on the left hand side. Regards Raine
Hi Matt. Thanks for stopping by. I checked out the site and it was nice, I was a bit confused by the text “For pics along the way use the menu below.” though.
I think when one wants to construct meaningful and convenient menu, one ought to look at how Ebay and Amazon do it. These 2 giants sell almost everything in every category so it is extremely critical for them to present products in a way that is most convenient. I particularly how Amazon shows a very short 2 level category tree (flyout menu) then when you choose one category there you will be presented with many subcategories on the left hand side.
Regards
Raine
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By: matt w
https://rubikintegration.com/2009/08/01/design-an-online-store-with-hundreds-of-thousands-of-products/#comment-293 matt w Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:28:41 +0000 http://blog.rubikintegration.com/?p=171#comment-293 Nice article! Thank you for posting so many useful articles and links here. We are working on adding another 5000 products to our website www.drumfactorydirect.com which already has about 3300 products. The way we are handling the fine line between too deep of hierarchy and too many products in one category is to use flyout category menus. Our site uses a horizontal flyout menu and it allows the user to drill down to the more specific category very quickly and with ease. The biggest challenge to this is ordering the subcategories in a logical progression, there are a lot of decisions to be made when structuring the category layout. We are about to re-organize most of our categories to be able to incorporate many new categories for the new products we are adding, we made the mistake of not thinking of future extensibility when we created the website.
Nice article! Thank you for posting so many useful articles and links here.
We are working on adding another 5000 products to our website http://www.drumfactorydirect.com which already has about 3300 products. The way we are handling the fine line between too deep of hierarchy and too many products in one category is to use flyout category menus. Our site uses a horizontal flyout menu and it allows the user to drill down to the more specific category very quickly and with ease. The biggest challenge to this is ordering the subcategories in a logical progression, there are a lot of decisions to be made when structuring the category layout. We are about to re-organize most of our categories to be able to incorporate many new categories for the new products we are adding, we made the mistake of not thinking of future extensibility when we created the website.