{"id":759,"date":"2011-07-06T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2011-07-07T14:20:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T13:20:19","slug":"need-an-aircraft-carrier-simply-add-to-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/shopping-carts\/need-an-aircraft-carrier-simply-add-to-cart","title":{"rendered":"Need an aircraft carrier? Simply add to cart!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m sure at one time or another we’ve all had those extravagant purchases, perhaps that late night venture onto eBay for a Michael Bolton CD you simply had to have, but I can’t help thinking the Ministry of Defence may have gone a step too far offering the HMS Ark Royal with an Add to Cart button. The 10,000 tonne aircraft carrier has been decommissioned and sold earlier today, with the winner of the auction not known until later in the year (it’s rumoured to sell for around \u00a33.5 million). You can see the actual sales page here<\/a>\u00a0– of course the Add to Cart button doesn’t actually let you purchase, but they should use a more suitable shopping cart system.<\/p>\n

There are a number of choices as far as shopping cart systems go, the main ones in use are Magento<\/a>, Zencart, OSCommerce, CRE Reloaded, X-Cart and Joomla with Virtuemart. Each of these has their own benefits, here is a good shopping cart review<\/a>\u00a0which is worth a read, it’s quite thorough and includes a feature comparison table to help you decide which one is right for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure at one time or another we’ve all had those extravagant purchases, perhaps that late night venture onto eBay for a Michael Bolton CD you simply had to have, but I can’t help thinking the Ministry of Defence may have gone a step too far offering the HMS Ark Royal with an Add to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2972,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}