Her kids and grand kids had been telling Mah Tov Gallery proprietor Sara Engel, "You need a web site." She listened. Content2zero was privileged to help turn her vision into reality.
Sara was clear that she didn't want to have online purchasing, at least to start. But what did she want? She wanted to show off the fine artwork that she sells in the store. Though she may not have wanted to create a shopping cart where customers could transact purchases, she absolutely did want a catalog that that would show of the gorgeous pieces that she carries.
It was this desire to create a catalog that led me to want to plan for the ultimate evolution of the site to full ecommerce functionality. And though it is relatively easy to build a catalog with the Views module, the Ubercart module does it exquisitely well. And with Ubercart, the ultimate migration to a real ecommerce site would be that much easier.
One of the things I'm most excited about regarding the development of the Mah Tov Gallery site was the training I've with propriter Sara Engel. Sara is 79 going on 59. She has been enthusiastic the entire way to learn what she had to do add and edit products on her site. I chunked it out by teaching her all the data entry sans the photos first. I added all the photos for the first round of catalog items (mostly using Ubercart's excellent image importer). After Sara mastered the content data entry for the products, I trained her how to grab the photos from her artist provider web sites and then upload them to her gallery site.
Finally, it's been a lot theming based on the Sky module. It's really pretty.