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[Thomas]

Sorry if this has been covered and I just missed it but does anyone else think that an introduction thread would be really great? Seems like this is still such a small community and we could actually probably all know each other a little bit or at least regulars could. :) I am a convert from a few other E-Commerce apps, such as X-Cart Gold, OsCommerce, CreLoaded, ZenCart, and even Magento. I think that Presta has some awesome potential and I would love to see a huge community like X-Cart has where we all help each other.


Well I will introduce myself anyway. I am Tom and the above is pretty much my intro :) I work for Groovy Web Design and we turn out, actually, a lot of carts for customers and I really like Presta a whole lot. I have been super impressed and can't wait to keep using it and stop buying X-Cart to only be let down and frustrated.

Maybe if enough people are interested then we can get a thread for introductions!

Thanks
Tom

[coke]

I think intro's are a good idea.

Me:

I'm a graphic designer & creative director for a small gaming/entertainment company. I also own a small cosmetics company which is what I use prestashop for. I'm also a painter. I do graphic design jobs for extra cash (yes, that means custom presta templates ;] )

I use presta because its an editor/graphic designer's dream. It's the only cart as far as I know that uses tpl files and properly.

[Thomas]

For sure, we have talked about how messed up the X-Cart system of using smarty really is before and it is horrible. What is really bad is when you know where to find anything that a client asks you about! ;) Nice to meet you!

[Peter Wilson]

Great idea, Thomas. So great that I made it a sticky. ;-)

I'm head of communications here at PrestaShop. My background is in French and Communications, so working at PrestaShop here in Paris is a natural fit in many ways.

I also have the distinction of having been PrestaShop's first client. Last year I was managing the effort to create an online boutique for an African art gallery in Paris. My efforts were being frustrated by the commercial and open-source shopping-cart software on the market when a mutual acquaintance introduced me to Bruno, PrestaShop CEO, who was just starting out at the time. Even back then, PrestaShop v8.0 (!) showed great potential and served our needs well.

After that project had finished, Bruno and I agreed to continue our collaboration, so _me voilà_.

Part of my responsibilities include managing this Website and moderating the English-language parts of this Forum, so please let us know in the "PrestaShop.com thread":/forums/viewforum/32/ if you have any suggestions for either.

[Ann]

Hi all !

New here, I discovered quite recently Prestashop ! I own a lingerie boutique and opened my own " home made " site in december 07 . As the site is doing well, but has the main drawback of being written in html , I decided to move to a less hassling solution for managing both real and virtual boutique ! My friends and I know nothing about programming and we did all by learning by ourselves and forum from scrap !

the adress of the site is http://www.ann-secrets.com ( please be indulgent ! ;-) )

Ann

[edit ] July 29th : the new site using Prestashop is taking life, soon to be linked : http://www.ann-secrets.com/

[Thomas]

From 1215064733:

Great idea, Thomas. So great that I made it a sticky. ;-)

I'm head of communications here at PrestaShop. My background is in French and Communications, so working at PrestaShop here in Paris is a natural fit in many ways.

I also have the distinction of having been PrestaShop's first client. Last year I was managing the effort to create an online boutique for an African art gallery in Paris. My efforts were being frustrated by the commercial and open-source shopping-cart software on the market when a mutual acquaintance introduced me to Bruno, PrestaShop CEO, who was just starting out at the time. Even back then, PrestaShop v8.0 (!) showed great potential and served our needs well.

After that project had finished, Bruno and I agreed to continue our collaboration, so _me voilà_.

Part of my responsibilities include managing this Website and moderating the English-language parts of this Forum, so please let us know in the "PrestaShop.com thread":/forums/viewforum/32/ if you have any suggestions for either.

Wow, that is awesome. Never learned any real languages, just computer ones ;) Just to let you know I have used a ton of these carts both pay and free and I am super impressed with all of your guys work and even the designs of the home page here and in the cart. I think it is really awesome! Keep up the good work.

[Thomas]

From 1215088057:

Hi all !

New here, I discovered quite recently Prestashop ! I own a lingerie boutique and opened my own " home made " site in december 07 . As the site is doing well, but has the main drawback of being written in html , I decided to move to a less hassling solution for managing both real and virtual boutique ! My friends and I know nothing about programming and we did all by learning by ourselves and forum from scrap !

the adress of the site is http://www.ann-secrets.com ( please be indulgent ! ;-) )

Ann

Hi Ann,

Nice to meet you. Have you given Presta a try yet to see if you will like it? I think that you will and I am sure it will help your business a whole lot!

[coke]

I gotta get me some of that Nina Ricci

[Ann]

From 1215107042:

From 1215088057:

Hi all !

New here, I discovered quite recently Prestashop ! I own a lingerie boutique and opened my own " home made " site in december 07 . As the site is doing well, but has the main drawback of being written in html , I decided to move to a less hassling solution for managing both real and virtual boutique ! My friends and I know nothing about programming and we did all by learning by ourselves and forum from scrap !

the adress of the site is http://www.ann-secrets.com ( please be indulgent ! ;-) )

Ann

Hi Ann,

Nice to meet you. Have you given Presta a try yet to see if you will like it? I think that you will and I am sure it will help your business a whole lot!

Hi Thomas ! You are right , I am working at the moment on the CSS to give prestashop my own touch ! Thank you to the whole of you developpers ! ;-) xxx

[Bruno Lévêque]

From 1215088057:

the adress of the site is http://www.ann-secrets.com ( please be indulgent ! ;-) )

Congratulations Ann! beautiful store ;)

[Ann]

From 1215140532:

From 1215088057:

the adress of the site is http://www.ann-secrets.com ( please be indulgent ! ;-) )

Congratulations Ann! beautiful store ;)

Thank you very much indeed ! :-) Thanks to you all, I' ll do my best to bring the new version in line ! xxx

[jtechnstuff]

Hey all, my name is Jason. Been trying to build my own webstore (J-Tech N Stuff.com)since mid last year. And like most of you Ive tried several shops out there. I just found this one and installed it and I think this will be the one I will be using for now on. I basicly had 2 choices to choose from first one was ZenCart becuase they had the features I needed. Used that up untill now. I realy like both the admin and front page layout of Presta and the features offered. That was one thing I realy disliked about zencart is that they like all the other rebuilds of the Oscommerce is that they couldnt seem to get away with the defult look for their basic template. I am very impressed with Presta. Keep the good work. J-Tech N Stuff.com

[Thomas]

Hi Jason,

Nice to meet you! Yeah I completely understand what you are saying about all the osCommerce descendants. Hope you continue to really enjoy the Presta! Stay away from X-Cart unless you want to really get a migraine from the painful weirdness of that cart. :)

Tom

[illutic]

Hi there :)
I'm a webdesigner from the Netherlands (Holland). I found PrestaShop 'by accident' a few days ago. I've been searching for an e-commerce solution like this for quite some time now.. I never wanted to use osCommerce, because it's ugly and I really didn't know where to begin with changing its looks.
I'm still trying to get the hang of PS, but so far it's going quite well :)

[Stu583]

Very nice job ann. Looks fab.

[Ann]

From 1216208743:

Very nice job ann. Looks fab.

Thanks a lot...soon including Prestashop solution I hope ! ;-))

[stampy]

Hi

Just wanted to say hello. Really like Prestashop so far, and learning as I'm going through everything. Currently working on a magento site at the same time as setting up here, and kind of wish I'd never started now I've found Prestashop!

It's definately the best looking option I've seen, and even I'm finding it fairly easy to use, which is saying something.

[PointandStare]

Hey all.
I last tried PS about a year ago but didn't have time to spend on it.
I'm assuming that it's improved tons since then.

[ken]

Hello Everyone.

I thought it was about time for my first post here. :-)

I’ve been using osC for the last 12 months and it has worked very well however I’ve spent the last two weeks reading this forum and playing with Prestashop and I am very impressed. In fact I’ve spent the last few days transferring my products across and hope to go live in a couple of weeks.

Keep up the great work. This is sure to be a winner.

I have a ton of questions but I’ll post them separately. :coolsmile:

Regards.

Ken.