From 41403c759a684ef54ac4dd4661398b50e8dea39d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ray Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 15:46:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update draft --- content/posts/giana.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/giana.md b/content/posts/giana.md index 31ecc04..fd250e6 100644 --- a/content/posts/giana.md +++ b/content/posts/giana.md @@ -11,19 +11,33 @@ externalLink = "" series = [] +++ -Giana Boutique is an online ecommerce store. +Now, this site, is one of the earliest I ever worked upon. +It was my first time using WooCommerce and second time using WordPress to build a site. + +It is the site of Giana Boutique, an online ecommerce store. Done quite some time ago. Their [website](https://giana.rayelliott.dev/). -First time using WooCommerce and second time using WordPress to build a site. - Uses pre-existing theme. Nothing special required. Main customisations were little bits of CSS to tidy some things up -- created child theme based on a theme from [ModernThemes](https://modernthemes.net/) called Exchange. +Now, onto why I used the Exchange theme? +Well, it was pretty much entirely because it was free and I thought it looked okay. +It was free and I felt it was a reasonable looking theme that I could use to get started with setting up a WordPress site to use WooCommerce. + +Would I use it again? +Certainly not. +I felt it was difficult to customise, although this may have been at least partly due to my inexperience. +Doesn't really offer much over Storefront, the WooCommerce theme from Automattic??? +Doesn't do much to set it above all the other similar looking WooCommerce sites around. +I feel it is perfectly fine for someone wishing to set up a WooCommerce with an acceptable theme quickly with little effort. +Not so good for developers. + + Plugins used: * [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/).