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</head><BODY ><p><SPAN style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11pt;">Hi all,</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11pt;"> I've read the dev list archive and found some recent discussion about somehow making osCommerce or different shop systems work for Typo3, modifying tt_products or even writing a new shop system for Typo3. Whereas I'm more or less a still a beginner in terms of Typo3 and certainly don't have any technical contributions to make (sorry ...), I would like to cheer and give some encouragement to those rolling up their sleeves on this subject:</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11pt;">What I would love about a more complex shopping system within Typo3 would be to actually be able to mix "regular content" and "things for sale" instead of just "having a shop on the site". Most sites have a content-section and a shop-section. Or a shop-section with a lot of content (product-descriptions). I think it would be somewhat new and exciting to give up that duality altogether, meaning: being able to place buyable products anywhere on the site/placing content anywhere in the shop. Access cart from anywhere. Have one cart for several websites.</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11pt;">Whether or not you find this interesting might depend on what products you think of. We for instance are selling books: they are information you can buy, but there's as much information you would want about them (interviews with authors, reviews, background info on book's subject) - so the vision is an online-magazine where you can click items to cart (or wishlist) from an article without switching to a shop section. Get the idea?</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11pt;">So what I think is a pity about tt_products is not simply that it can't compete with say osCommerce in terms of features, but much rather that it somewhat doesn't reflect the spirit of Typo3 yet - weaving a beautifully dynamic net of information. Yes, I'm in love with Typo3 and your awesome work, so I'm being very romantic about it.</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11pt;">Please forgive me if I'm thinking in the wrong direction anyway or if postings like these are unwelcome - if not: I'm cheering you like crazy and hope that by the time you've figured something out, I'll have changed our website to Typo3 and get the first new shop up and running ... :-)</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11pt;">Rock on! - and thanks a lot</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11pt;"> Sophie</SPAN></p>
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