Hello everyone. Been an X-Cart user since 2007, however I have only worked on a few dozen products at once, so I'm still a newbie to all the X-Cart features. Also, I am not a guru on any web designing so I apologize for any newbie questions
I am in the process of upgrading to X-Cart 5.3 and have just finished most of the design. Now I am working on gathering all the product pictures and create new sku numbers, etc.
I wanted to see if any of you can share some of your tips and workflow processes on handling hundreds of products. Since I am starting from scratch, I want to learn 'best practices' when putting everything together. Here are some specific questions I have:
SKU numbers and Images -
1) I was planning on creating image file names based on sku numbers using a batch photo editor. Planning on making sku numbers based on the category the product is located. Two letters in the beginning, followed by a 4 digit number. Any feedback?
Was also going to resize all photos to 1024x768. Is that the industry standard these days?
2) I was planning on uploading an images folder to store all the photos using FTP, then export a test product csv file, and edit the product names there and link to images folder. When doing a test product entry and upload an image, it asks if I want to store the image in the file server. Is that best practice?
Attributes and Options -
This seems to be the most complicated part of the project. I'm sure many of you started this with many headaches and problems. Do you have any suggestions or workflow tips, especially with handling hundreds of products with these variants? Do you just go through each product one at a time, or use the export csv feature to manage it?
Any other tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, and I apologize if this thread is in the wrong category or has already been answered in other threads.