Japanese/English bilingual ecommerce site
Someone asked me which CMS is best to build a basic Japanese / English bilingual ecommerce site that is relatively small in size of up to 50 products or so. This person was inclined to use Joomla! . WordPres, Magento, Drupal are among the possible options.
I spent hours researching on the net, only to find that there seems to be no definite answer at this point. Joomla! does seems to be favored, if you have to pick one. What surprised me is that I could not find ANY website developer who has experience in building J/E bilingual ecommerce site with Joomla! I inquired some website developers, but none of them have. There are some who develop such sites using their own custom made CMS, but I prefer open source CMS because with custom (not open source) CMS, you are at the mercy of the developer in upgrades, cost and support.
Our web design parter, Paul at Tokyo Web Designs says, “Ecommerce is a tremendously complex area, and rather than re-invent the wheel, my goal is to find out which open source platform works best and configure/customize that to match my project requirements. So far I haven’t found one that I am really satisfied with.”
Maybe it is too early and we don’t have a winner yet for J/E bilingual ecommerce CMS. I will keep my eyes on this.