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Satchmo installation

November 14th, 2011 5 comments

Been playing with Satchmo today. One issue I ran into, is I installed the Trunk version of Django, which Satchmo apparently isn’t compatible with; it apparently expects Django 1.3. The easiest way to get started with a very fresh install of Satchmo is to go through the following steps.

Setup and activate virtual environment:

~/projects$ virtualenv test
~/projects$ cd test
~/projects/test$ source bin/activate

Make sure you have PIL installed:

sudo apt-get install python-imaging

Install Satchmo:

~/projects/test$  hg clone https://chris1610@bitbucket.org/chris1610/satchmo
~/projects/test$ cd satchmo
~/projects/test/satchmo$ python setup.py install

Install all the other requirements:

~/projects/test/satchmo$ pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt

Setup sample store

/projects/test$ python source/satchmo/scripts/clonesatchmo.py
/projects/test$ cd store
/projects/test/store$ python manage.py runserver

Then just shoot your browser to:

http://localhost:8000
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Impressive Satchmo Sites

August 29th, 2011 2 comments

I’m starting a project for a client in Satchmo and wanted to show him some sample stores produced with the technology so that he’d feel more comfortable with what it’s capable of. The following are the standouts after going through all the items on this list:

  1. blacklockjewellery.com
  2. qwertee.com
  3. livestrongfitness.com
  4. jeepcollins.com
  5. spoonnyc.com
  6. snowsportsonline.com
  7. zutano.com
  8. abodeliving.co.uk
  9. shopjoielle.com
Quick note: while scanning through these sites it became very obvious how important is for a site to have a quick response time. When I clicked some of the links on the stores that I went to the site just wouldn’t respond to my requests. It just feels a lot better when the site is snappy and ready to serve you.
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