Comments on: 10 Beautiful Examples of Miva Merchant Sites

By: Filter Coffee

Filter Coffee — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:48:25 +0000

I like the “California Caviar” most. All the site list is really awesome. I am pretty much pleased with your good work.You put really very helpful information. Keep it up. Keep blogging. Looking to reading your next post.

By: saglik haber

saglik haber — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:24:04 +0000

First site a really good example

By: Umbro England

Umbro England — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:04:29 +0000

Miva Slow, and some pages time out.

I have a problem where the Miva Generated pages are taking a long time to come up. If you click on any of the pages it seems to hang for quite a few seconds on only the miva generated pages. Static Pages that are not Miva Generated load fine.

EsterlinaVineyards.com

My host is APlus and they don’t seem to know what is going on..

The worst part is that when our staff tries to retrieve credit card numbers and try to unlock the page with the Credit Card number it times out. So the Staff is unable to get the info.

Even when logging into the miva admin the menu at the left seems to take a bit of time to load. As well as making changes

I Have packed databases and removed expired shopping cart.

Does this problem ring a bell with anyone?

Thanks for any ideas or help.

By: Bitkisel Tedavi

Bitkisel Tedavi — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:48:19 +0000

California Caviar seems to be using the MMUI interface for their actual store… that’s a little sad…

By: Talking Ava

Talking Ava — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:14:36 +0000

Thanks for posting such wonderful assortment of merchant sites! The Bee Global is particularly striking, the boldness of the color is just awesome.

By: Laptop Carrying Case

Laptop Carrying Case — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:57:02 +0000

I have used several different ecommerce cms systems, but I have not tried Miva Merchant. It does look like a great platform based on these site designs. With some cms systems it can be quite a hassle to customize things this much. I will have to keep this in mind next time I have to setup a shopping cart system.

By: Susan Petracco

Susan Petracco — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:25:56 +0000

Conrad, you are totally right, and it doesn’t look good at all. Pooey.

By: conrad

conrad — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:27:16 +0000

California Caviar seems to be using the MMUI interface for their actual store… that’s a little sad…

By: Kate Davenport

Kate Davenport — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:01:12 +0000

http://eurogourmet.biz is a pretty awesome site. Incorporating the cart into the bottom slider and stuff is a pretty sweet idea that looks to be a fairly custom job. I think it uses mootools. And it’s valid XHTML/CSS, which is always great to see!

By: Glynn Gallagher

Glynn Gallagher — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:54:11 +0000

While it’s true that there still seem to be a number of sites using the dreaded MMUI interface (a couple in my own industry in fact) I believe most Miva merchants have the sense to know that the look and feel of their site is invaluable to getting and retaining customers & clients. They will seek out talented designers and pay for the work if they are incapable of doing it on their own…much like the sites referenced in this article (beautiful!)

I was fortunate enough to find Susan and Pete Petracco of Netblazon several years ago. What my site offers isn’t “pretty” or edible (darn!) but it definitely draws and holds the attention of many visitors and converts them into buyers. Lockpickshop.com has much of the best that Miva has to offer including the best programmers and graphics artists that are experts on the Miva platform. I am very pleased with the versatility that exists with Miva 5.5 vs. the way things were 11 years ago when my first store was built.