Cartweaver

Can i use cartweaver for my own products or we can use the available products only in the cartweaver

You would want to add your products to the Cartweaver database using the web based admin.
As with any dynamic application, the database is the foundation on which the whole application is built, so the data structure is unique to the application. Trying to fit an "outside" database under the application is like trying to slip a different foundation under a building that is already built... While it may be "possible" it's never a good idea and so much code is written to try to accommodate this that the app becomes bloated with code that has little to do with the targeted application function - that being e-commerce.
You'll find that the Cartweaver database is very accommodating and you will be able to add whatever products you have, then proceed from there.
If you have more detailed questions I'd be more than happy to answer them, just pop me an e-mail directly at:
lawrence at cartweaver dot com
Hope you find this helpful.
Lawrence Cramer - *Adobe Community Professional*
http://www.Cartweaver.com
PHP & ColdFusion Shopping Cart for Adobe Dreamweaver
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I am getting double ;; when I setup a form for Cartweaver

I have installed a full version of DW CS5 and I am trying to use Cartweaver to set up a store.
I don't think that Cartweaver is the problem. I think it is something in DW setup that is generating the problem.
Before I do the setup on the applicaiton.php file, I have this:
$cwGlobalSettings->hostname = "";
$cwGlobalSettings->database = "";
$cwGlobalSettings->databaseUsername = "";
$cwGlobalSettings->databasePassword = "";
$cwGlobalSettings->websiteURL = "";
$cwGlobalSettings->websiteSSLURL = "";
$cwGlobalSettings->onSubmitAction = "GoTo";
$cwGlobalSettings->targetResults = "results.php";
After I do the setup of the application.php file, I get this:
hostname = "local host";
$cwGlobalSettings->database = "dkselect_cw";
$cwGlobalSettings->databaseUsername = "dekselect_dan";
$cwGlobalSettings->databasePassword = "$apple3";
$cwGlobalSettings->websiteURL = "";
$cwGlobalSettings->websiteSSLURL = "";
$cwGlobalSettings->onSubmitAction = "Confirm";
Can someone tell me how to stop DW CS 5 from generating the double ;

Hi Turbo,
Could you post this to the Cartweaver Community Forum: http://forums.cartweaver.com
Or open a support ticket at: http://support.cartweaver.com
This is not something we have seen and there's a lot of developers using CW with CS5, so there must be something amiss with you install or set up. We have folks that would be happy to help.
Lawrence Cramer - *Adobe Community Professional*
http://www.Cartweaver.com
Shopping Cart for Adobe Dreamweaver
available in PHP, ColdFusion, and ASP
Stay updated - http://blog.cartweaver.com

What are the differences between Cartweaver CF and PHP?

I am on my final step of finishing the webpage that I am building and saw Cartweaver for a shopping cart that is compatible with dreamweaver. But I looked into the site and hey didnt give an explanation between the CF and PHP version. So I would like to know the differences and which one would work best with Dreamweaver Cs6.

Hi Kendall,
As far as application differences, functionality wise, there is no difference. Both Cartweaver 4 CF and Cartweaver 4 PHP function and present themselves exactly the same. As far as implementation there are very subtle differences due the the way CF and PHP work, but they both are very close and use "includes" to place the Cartweaver functionality in your site penetration pages. The web based store admins work exactly the same for both. So you get the same results no matter which direction you go.
Now what is the difference between PHP and ColdFusion? That is a very important question as it will impact what platform you use from now on - for this site, and possably future sites you build so this is worth taking a little time to consider.
Which is best? Well this could lead to a discussion like which is best Mac or PC? There are evangelists and zealots on both sides. The real truth of the matter is both are good choices, you just need to decide which is best, for you. One poster said "what does your host support" - good point, but if you are new to working with dynamic web sites and are deciding what platform you want to go with there are more important factors to consider than what your current host supports. You can always select a different host.
The biggest difference between CF and PHP is they way they are written - PHP is script pasted, much like JavaScript, CFML is tag based much like html. Because of this CFML is often a little easier to learn because it's a bit easier to look at something and figure out what it's doing. So you may want to take a little time looking at this aspect.
Fact is though, with either one because Cartweaver does the vast majority of anything to do with code for you, learning the language is something you may not choose to do anyway. An advantage to PHP is that it has much wider support, so finding developers to help out, or hosts can easier with PHP. So if you don't have any desire to dig in and learn code as you go and only want to learn what's necessary to get your shopping cart site up, then the steps and learning curve are pretty much the same and PHP may be a good way to go. If this raises more questions than it answerers, let me know I'd be happy to discuss this more with you offline.
So, back to the basics - from a functionality point, they are both the same. You only need to choose which platform you think will work best for you and go from there.
I hope this helps. If you have any other questions at all, ask away.
Lawrence Cramer - *Adobe Community Professional*
http://www.Cartweaver.com
PHP & ColdFusion Shopping Cart for Adobe Dreamweaver
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Business Catalyst or Cartweaver with fluid grid

I'm considering a dreamweaver ecommerce site for my art business. So far, I'm trying Shopify and love the easy ecommerce software, but HATE the design limitations. It simply makes me claustrophobic.
I've had success mocking up designs with the fluid grid, and incorporating all the cool features I want. However, it's the opposite situation. Ecommerce seems detatched and probably difficult.
Should I look to Business Catalyst or something like Cartweaver? Are either of these compatible with the fluid grid layout? I only want responsive, and refuse to use a template.
I basically want a system that can manage products and orders similar to Shopify, but without the creative limitations.

Cartweaver can plug into most any design and it could with some CSS tweaking work within a responsive design. The advantage is it is made to fit into a developers design and not force some pre-conceived template or design on you. The formatting that is used for the store elements is controlled by CSS so you can change and adjust it as needed... alos, while using an Extension id Dremweaver to be installed - it is not dependent on this, we removed all that when we saw where Adobe was going with Server behaviors in Dreamweaver CC - so once placed in your site it's all just regular html / css and php or CF - no special Dreamweaver or non standard tags or comments to get in the way.
That being said, are the cart / store elements 100% responsive design out of the box? No. The search results feature, that displays products based on the user's search has the number of columns and row controls via an entry in the web based admin - so it doesn't auto collapse the way a true responsive design would. and the product details pages display isn't "collapsible" - But this could be simply over written to ignore this setting and user your CSS. So with some tweaking you could be ready to go.
We know that responsive design is becoming a bigger requirement all the time so we do intend on updating the presentation side of Cartweaver to support this, we are working on a couple of other cool things that are ahead of this, but it is definitely on our short list to offer this, but in the mean time, it is something that could be tweaked by the developer with a good knowledge of CSS and a reasonable understanding of php or Cf, depending on what version you choose.
The real advantage is the lack of creative restrictions, as well as not being locked into a proprietary hosted solution, those are advantages to consider, and after the initial learning curve you will find that the presentation side can be bent to your will - whatever that may be :-)
Since I want to respect that this is an Adobe forum, if you any other more specific questions I'll be happy to answer them directly offline. You can pop me an e-mail if you like at
lawrence - at - cartweaver dot com
Lawrence Cramer - *Adobe Community Professional*
http://www.Cartweaver.com
PHP & ColdFusion Shopping Cart for Adobe Dreamweaver
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CyberSource and Cartweaver

I need help getting a CF version of the Cartweaver shopping
cart to interact with the "Hosted Order Page" implementation of the
CyberSource credit card processing system. CyberSource doesn't
support ColdFusion, so I need to figure out how to use the
CyberSource-supplied PHP "security script" to send form data from a
CF page to the CyberSource server.
Here's the sample page, for what the shopping cart would look
like in PHP. As you can see, it appears staightforward, though I'm
just not sure how this can be done if my cart is in CF:
<?php include("HOP.php") ?>
<html><body>
<h1>sample_product_name</h1>
<p>Here, you enter the description of your
product.</p>
<form
action="https://orderpagetest.ic3.com/hop/orderform.jsp"
method="post">
<?php InsertSignature3("10.00", “usd”,
“sale”) ?>
<input type="hidden" name="orderPage_transactionType"
value="sale">
<input type="hidden" name="billTo_firstName"
value="John">
<input type="hidden" name="billTo_lastName"
value="Doe">
<input type="hidden" name="billTo_email"
value="[email protected]">
<input type="hidden" name="merchantDefinedData1"
value="ship">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Buy Now">
</form>
</body></html>

Most of it can be used as-is. I'm fairly certain the first
php tag can be removed but I'm not sure what this line does:
<?php InsertSignature3("10.00", “usd”,
“sale”) ?>
Maybe see if they have an ASP example...

Using cartweaver with dreamweaver cs3

cartweaver seems like a decent out of the box ecommerce
solution, but how is it while using dreamweaver. Is it easy to
integrate the code into the existing pages? Is it a series of
include files that require a hand coders touch to modify
successfully to look seamless with existing site?

Hello,
I use Cartweaver but have not used eCart, though I have heard
many good
things about it.
There's a lot of good info on both websites.
Perhaps someone will describe their experience with eCart.
I can talk about CW.
First, let me say the support is excellent.
I would suggest you take a look through the CW newsgroup.
It's a great way
to see what kind of questions people are asking so you can
get a feel for
what it can and can't do. This will really help you, I think.
news://support.cartweaver.com/
Read the PHP newsgroup, specially posts by "Tom Muck"
I currently use the ASP version, but I think the PHP version
may be a better
choice.
The reason is that there appears to be more users and thus,
more scripts and
modifications available, posted in the newsgroups, to do some
very nice
things.
CW is very easy to set up. Run the extension and it loads all
needed pages
into your site in DW.
It adds a nice toolbar in DW where you can easily insert
functions on any
page.
The admin section is very thorough and intuitive.
The clients I have love it.
It's simple to add or edit products, photos, options, skus
and so on. You
can change the layout of the result pages just by selecting
how many columns
you want on the page, and there are a number of other
options.
It's easy to look at customer and order information as well.
To implement CW into your design, it's very easy to change
the CSS in the
included stylesheet.
To change functions or certain aspects of the layout, you do
need to get
into the code a bit.
For example, you can set the results pages to show x amount
of products per
page with a simple entry in the Admin section.
If there are more products than allowed to be shown on one
page, a "paging
links" menu allows navigation to next page. It is a simple
"Previous, 1, 2,
3, Next" text menu.
I wanted to make this look like buttons, so I had to go into
the script that
draws this on the page and change the code to insert
<li> instead of just
inserting text. I also had to change the script to use an
unordered list for
the menus instead of plain text links with line breaks
between them.
This wasn't very hard to do, but it depends on your
understanding of server
side language. Again though, any questions I've asked in the
newsgroup or
through a support ticket were answered very quickly and were
very specific.
"Change line 86 in something.asp to this", for example.
There are a couple of things CW doesn't do that I hope will
be in future
versions:
Ability to use PayPal's Website Payment's Pro.
Ability to link to UPS, FedEx, etc to get real time shipping
charges. I know
there can be issues with this, but some clients want it.
As far as what you can do with CW or eCart, definitely take a
look at their
customer examples:
http://www.cartweaver.com/customers/sitesusingcw.cfm
http://www.webassist.com/professional/products/productdetails.asp?PID=123
Then click "showcase".
Here is a site I just did with CW, if interested:
http://www.bestbabystuffonline.com/
Take care,
Tim
"jsteinmann" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm trying to decide where my $300 is best spent between
cartweaver and
> ecart.
> I like very much how easy ecart appears to be to setup
gateway payment
> pages
> using both remote and local payment pages, but as a
developer, I need to
> make
> sure I can customize to the nth degree, create admins if
needed to manage
> products, promotions, images, etc., and not be boxed
into a system that
> requires the use of an extension in dreamweaver
everytime a change is
> needed.
> Cartweaver appears to do this, but to be frank, their
demo isn't that
> impressive. And without trying it, I have a feeling it's
a series of a
> dozen
> include files you need to track down to make changes,
and then hand code
> your
> way into something more robust... and if I'm going to go
to that trouble,
> osCommerce and Zen Cart are free. Does Cartweaver use
the dreamweaver
> recordsets and server behaviors throughout their
templated system of admin
> functions? Where is the money best spent if you are able
to develop an
> admin
> area yourself?
>
>

E-commerce solution : Cartweaver ou WebAssist ?

Hi,
My site is currently based on Interakt products (MX Kommerce
etc) and as all support from Interakt has now ceased and since most
of their products have been discontinued, I have to look around for
an alternative solution. Some people on the Interakt forms
recommended Web Assist which does seem to have an impressive list
of products designed to replace Interakt's. However, I have seen
quite a bit of negative feedback from others who say Web Assist's
products simply do not work. Are there any Web Assist clients here
who could give me their point of view ? Another possible solution
is Cartweaver which is cheaper to buy and appears to be simpler.
But Cartweaver appears to be geared towards simple sites with few
categories, products and product options whereas my site has many.
Again I'd be interested on hearing from Cartweaver customers and
also to see some Cartweaver-based sites.
I like the idea of a simple, eg Cartweaver, solution but it
shouldn't be too simple meaning I'd have to add loads of custom
code to make it suit my needs -I'm no programmer !).
Cheers

peetk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My site is currently based on Interakt products (MX
Kommerce etc) and as all
> support from Interakt has now ceased and since most of
their products have been
> discontinued, I have to look around for an alternative
solution. Some people on
> the Interakt forms recommended Web Assist which does
seem to have an impressive
> list of products designed to replace Interakt's.
However, I have seen quite a
> bit of negative feedback from others who say Web
Assist's products simply do
> not work. Are there any Web Assist clients here who
could give me their point
> of view ? Another possible solution is Cartweaver which
is cheaper to buy and
> appears to be simpler. But Cartweaver appears to be
geared towards simple sites
> with few categories, products and product options
whereas my site has many.
> Again I'd be interested on hearing from Cartweaver
customers and also to see
> some Cartweaver-based sites.
>
> I like the idea of a simple, eg Cartweaver, solution but
it shouldn't be too
> simple meaning I'd have to add loads of custom code to
make it suit my needs
> -I'm no programmer !).
>
> Cheers
>
I have built 2 stores with Web Assists eCart,
http://store.dmcworld.com
and
http://www.aclighting.com/shop
I had to get my head into the code to get what I wanted out
of the
tools, and I found several bugs which were quickly fixed by
the
excellent support. What you have to remember about eCart is
that it is a
tool to help *you* build your shop that you *you* want it.
You need to
know what pages go where and how you want them to work, you
then use the
Web Assist tools to help you create the shop.
Web Assist suffers from the same marketing problems that
Dreamweaver
does, it makes people who know next to nothing think they can
use it to
make an all singing all dancing shop without any hand coding.
I have helped people in there forums, and have seen the
number of
frustrated users who expect the software to do it all for
them. It
doesn't, but with a bit of research first, you will make
excellent use
of the tools and create some really nice shops.
Before the 2 I made I had never even thought about how a
online shop
should work, but I still managed to make successful shops.
The first one
has been online for about 3 years now, and is doing very
well, the
second on is only 3 months old and its got some way to go
yet, there is
much more that we are going to do with it.
Steve

Announcing Cartweaver 4!

For many of you on this forum that have known me for a long time, you can imagine my excitement to announce the release of our new "baby"! It's been a log time in the making, with progress rather ruthlessly slowed with the "great recession" But we continued burning midnight oil and did a lot of bootstrapping and as a result... It's here! So please indulge me this O.T. announcement - and cross post.
The Cartweaver team is extremely pleased to announce that the new Cartweaver site is now live and our pre-sales event has begun! We are so exited about all the new features in this literally new from the ground (database) up version of Cartweaver. Available on ColdFusion, and PHP with full support for CSS formatting and jQury UI enhancements.
We begin taking pre-sales orders now for Cartweaver 4 at a significant discount. If you are a current Cartweaver user, log in - the link is in the upper right hand corner of the Cartweaver site - and you will be given your additional pre-sales upgrade discount!
Cartweaver 4 will actually be released sometime next week, (the week of February 20-26) when it is the pre-sales discount will be discontinued and you will be able to log into your account and download your copy of Cartweaver 4, you will also then be able to order and download your free Cartweaver 4 template.
We will be posting more information on our Facebook Page, Twitter as well as in the Cartweaver Forums as time goes on. You can see a bunch of videos on Cartweaver 4 on our YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/CartweaverTV
We are so very excited to finally share all the information about the new and incredibly improved Cartweaver 4
Lawrence Cramer - *Adobe Community Professional*
http://www.Cartweaver.com
PHP & ColdFusion Shopping Cart for Adobe Dreamweaver
Stay updated:
http://www.facebook.com/cartweaver
http://www.twitter.com/cartweaver
http://blog.cartweaver.com

Umm I'm really upset and I want to be taken care of too!
j/k Lawerence, excellent software. There were a few holes in the code that I found RE: security of digital downloads that was patched in a decent amount of time. So all-in-all v.3 was pretty good.
The thing that makes me reluctanct to consider v.4 is that so much time has passed between v.3 and now that I have re-written the entire cartweaver framework myself to accomodate my needs ie. converted table layout to CSS and implemented jQuery, etc.. I'm sure other cartweaver users have done the same.
Now I've read some of your previous posts about this upcoming upgrade and you mention that this is an entire re-write, which is understandable. Seems like one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't situations for previous users in regard that if they have v.3 code on their current site then it's a load to convert to the new version.
How much work is involved in the transition for legacy cartweaver users? Obviously this will vary, but is v.4 completely different than v.3 in regard to MySQL table structure and sessions, functions, etc. Your FAQ mentions db table conversion, but what about sessions, functions, etc.
No upgrade price available on your website? And what about compatability of v.3 plugins? Looks like v.4 will not support v.3 plugins.
I thought there'd be more offered in this upgrade. Looks like v.3 is the end of the road for me I thought that I might upgrade to v.4 for giggles and use it for new clients, but was hoping for additional login options and mobile version, which are two important things that I have developed since v.3. The requirement for users to register yet another account to purchase was a deterrant so I developed a one-click facebook connection solution using fb API. Adds benefits like the ability to post on the purchasers facebook wall and full fb connection integration with comments, likes, messages, etc. Actually pretty easy from a development standpoint and was hoping you'd have a connection option for the purchasers on cartweaver developers' websites. Something like register through website or connect through facebook either/or as signup/login options, or just one facebook connect option like I developed. There's also Twitter connection that can be used in the same way. Mobile device detection with redirect to a mobile version of the store would of also been nice to see in v.4. I did some really cool stuff with secure download on iPhone of verified purchases that streams the videos to verified iOS users that are connected through fb. With trust in your privacy I would be happy to show you examples off the forum grid if you'd like me to email.
http://youtube.com/CartweaverTV <-- is clickable.
best,
Shocker

Can anyone help with Cartweaver

I just recently bought the Cartweaver extension for
Dreamweaver and am having a few hiccups getting it up and running.
Anyone out there able to help?

I just recently bought the Cartweaver extension for
Dreamweaver and am having a few hiccups getting it up and running.
Anyone out there able to help?

Is cartweaver available for dreamweaver cs6

I have been trying to find Cartweaver within Adobe Extensions for Dreamweaver CS6, but although I've just downloaded all updates, it doesn't appear in the list. Is it no longer available? I can see PHP shopping cart, but has this replaced Cartweaver?
Thanks.

Hi Linda,
Yes please do pop over to the Cartweaver user forums. Handling detailed information would be more appropriate there.
Briefly, there has been an update since the Lynda.com course was done - just a small on to make things easier. After installing Cartweaver into your site and once you have created a new blank database, and set you data connection, just brows to your admin. The first time you do this you will be presented with the create database page - click the button and all the Cartweaver tables and data will be added to your database.
For any more details feel free to ask on the CW user forums or email me or support,
Hope this was helpful. Thanks!
Lawrence Cramer - *Adobe Community Professional*
http://www.Cartweaver.com
PHP & ColdFusion Shopping Cart for Adobe Dreamweaver
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Cartweaver Help

Has anyone that is using Cartweaver figured out a way how to
add previous/next links to the Details.cfm page? Cartweaver
provides this functionality for the Results.cfm page (Product
Listing in specific category or search) but not the Details.cfm
page (Detailed information about a specific product)
My client would really like the customer to be able to click
to the next product in a category instead of clicking the back
button to the category and then selecting the next product.
Thanks in advance to all.
Anthony

Try Cartweaver support:
http://www.cartweaver.com/support/
They have their own news server for support:
news://support.cartweaver.com/
Or you can open a support ticket with them:
http://support.cartweaver.com/Customer/SubmitTicket.aspx
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver/ColdFusion
Adobe Certified Expert - Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Certified Expert - ColdFusion 8
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com
http://www.cfnoob.com
"Anthony Spears" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gh96vp$2tp$[email protected]..
> Has anyone that is using Cartweaver figured out a way
how to add
> previous/next
> links to the Details.cfm page? Cartweaver provides this
functionality for
> the
> Results.cfm page (Product Listing in specific category
or search) but not
> the
> Details.cfm page (Detailed information about a specific
product)
>
> My client would really like the customer to be able to
click to the next
> product in a category instead of clicking the back
button to the category
> and
> then selecting the next product.
>
> Thanks in advance to all.
>
> Anthony
>

Cartweaver ColdFusion 3

Hi,
I am new to Cartweaver ColdFusion 3 and I have no clue how it
works. I watched the Lynda.com for shopping cart, which basically
uses cartweaver for the whole thing. I read through the document
that came with the purchase of cartweaver. But I have no clue how
to use it. I have my site designed out and I just need to put the
shopping cart icon, the "buy" icon, the "register for new user"
icon, and things like that in. But I have no clue how to use it. I
been playing around with cartweaver for hours and it's still going
no where. I tried putting the "result" provided by cartweaver into
a page, but after I saved it and opened it back up, everything was
out of order. The tables are a mess. Please help!
Thank you!!!!

Have you tried their support forums? I think they are NNTP
only but the
address is news://support.cartweaver.com and there are
several forums.
Nancy Gill
Adobe Community Expert
Author: Dreamweaver 8 e-book for the DMX Zone
Co-Author: Dreamweaver MX: Instant Troubleshooter (August,
2003)
Technical Editor: Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual,
DMX 2004: The Complete Reference, DMX 2004: A Beginner's
Guide
Mastering Macromedia Contribute
Technical Reviewer: Dynamic Dreamweaver MX/DMX: Advanced PHP
Web Development
"kc73837" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:fkctb1$rln$[email protected]..
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Cartweaver ColdFusion 3 and I have no clue
how it works. I
> watched
> the Lynda.com for shopping cart, which basically uses
cartweaver for the
> whole
> thing. I read through the document that came with the
purchase of
> cartweaver.
> But I have no clue how to use it. I have my site
designed out and I just
> need
> to put the shopping cart icon, the "buy" icon, the
"register for new user"
> icon, and things like that in. But I have no clue how to
use it. I been
> playing
> around with cartweaver for hours and it's still going no
where. I tried
> putting
> the "result" provided by cartweaver into a page, but
after I saved it and
> opened it back up, everything was out of order. The
tables are a mess.
> Please
> help!
>
> Thank you!!!!
>

Cartweaver and Dreamweaver

What Cartweaver version do I use with Dreamweaver CS5?

Hi,
Cartweaver 3 or 4 both the CF and the PHP versions will work. Naturally v4 is recommended as it is a BIG leap forward from previous versions and is continually being updated and new features being added.
If you'd like to know more about Cartweaver specifically it would be better to move this conversation to the Cartweaver user forums - the address is in my sig line below. I'll be happy to answer whatever questions you have.
Lawrence Cramer - *Adobe Community Professional*
http://www.Cartweaver.com
PHP & ColdFusion Shopping Cart for Adobe Dreamweaver
Stay updated:
http://forums.cartweaver.com
http://www.facebook.com/cartweaver
http://blog.cartweaver.com

Customer EDITS and CARTWEAVER dilema

Dear Trusted Forum Users,
I am about to undertake an E-commerce website using Dreamweaver for the first time and I need good sound advice and help from anyone willing to give it and who has previous experience of creating an Ecommerce from scratch for a small / medium sized company.
I have 2 areas that are causing me headaches already which I hope you can advise me on:
The client wishes to update the articles etc. themselves, and I would like to know if the Cartweaver software add-on for Dreamweaver would enable them to do this if I was to create their shopping cart using it? I have read over the info on the website for Cartweaver and it seems quite good, but without a real working site to look at in front of me, I don't know how easy it is for a client to login to the site and edit things (text, photos, codes etc.) Anyone using Cartweaver in this way please let me know.
The client will want to update info as required on other pages, mainly text and maybe few images. What would be the best way to set things up so that the client can easily update info on pages by themselves? Is creating Template dreamweaver pages with editable regions for them to edit feasible? or do I need to go the whole CMS route with something like Drupal to achieve this feature??
Any and all advice, help and opinions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanking you in advance.

Here's a little more information that you may find helpful...
What we normally tell people is, "you don't have to know how to code to work with Cartweaver, but you should be willing to learn some new things along the way". If you are well familiar with Dreamweaver and with HTML, and you're not afraid to dive in and learn some new things you should do just fine. If you are new to dynamic, database driven sites you you'll need to decide to go with either ColdFusion or PHP. ColdFusion, being a tag based language similar to HTML will be immediately more familiar than a script based language like PHP and therefore presents an easier initial learning curve but either version will serve you well. Regardless of which version you choose, Cartweaver makes the development and implementation of a shopping cart and admin about as easy as it can be, and a standard implementation can be performed with virtually no coding at all.
But be aware, there is a learning curve involved. You will need to set up a development environment and create a data source connection. This isn't a Cartweaver specific requirement, it will be necessary for whatever dynamic application you wish to work with. If this fact doesn't intimidate you, then I'd say you'll do very well with Cartweaver.
Ecommerce capabilities are becoming more in demand all the time, Cartweaver will give you the ability to offer this to your customers or clients in a very short period of time. Dive in, have fun.
Here are a few resources you may want to check out.
http://tinyurl.com/877vfsz - training on ecommerce and Cartweaver
http://tinyurl.com/8a3oku7 - training on ColdFusion
http://tinyurl.com/4lp7u8d - training for PHP
note: Lynda.com is a paid subscription site, but if you are not a member you can sign up for a seven day free trial which will give you plenty of time to go through this course - here is the URL for the trial sign up page:
http://tinyurl.com/7dqryy7
There are also many good tutorials to be found on the Adobe Developer's Network
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/application_development.html
Hope you find these helpful.
Lawrence Cramer - *Adobe Community Professional*
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PHP & ColdFusion Shopping Cart for Adobe Dreamweaver
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Cartweaver vs business catalist

Which one is better and easyer?

Yes and as for https://www.cartweaver.com/ you will notice that the main website is down. Hmm dont realy look good to me but its up to you.
As for prices again I dont know, cartweaver is a third party extensions as as for the price i have no idea as the website is down. for prices on BC http://www.businesscatalyst.com/
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