I haven’t yet nailed down my catalog, but it’ll consist of somewhere between 15-30 slogans, each of which will be available across a number of garment styles (from 1 to 8, depending on popularity), each of which will be available on more than one color. And for each slogan/style/color, there will be a number of sizes available. If we say:
20 slogan
4 styles/slogan
2 colors/style
4 sizes/color
Thats 640 individual products. I need to figure out the simplest way to create this catalog – I assume it is copying and pasting the values for each, including category and product picture location, into an XL file and importing it. But since I am still figuring out what color combos will go with which style and slogan, I’ll probably start with a dummy catalog.
But before I install any modules, I should already have an equivalent catalog running, so this truly is the first step, beyond reading as much as I can about Magento and thinking about how to slice and dice the catalog to create good entry points.
OK, so just thinking aloud, I think I have one version of a gameplan:
1) equivalent (dummy, but comprehensive) catalog – categories, attributes, and related products.
1a) color changer for products -
2) map out the logic of entry points and landing pages – I want customers to be able to start with either a style of garment. This is the heart of the navigation
3) find whatever modules look like they’ll help along the way
4) add and test other modules unrelated to the catalog/navigation (ie shipping, currency, etc)
5) customize the visuals for the store.