Kully Supply

J Smith — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:31:38 +0000

My employer Kully Supply, Inc has several online stores devoted primarily commercial plumbing parts. As we kept adding more, we were left with a large number of online stores to manage using various e-commerce solutions. After trying to maintain 11 different stores and having to make the same template changes on all of the stores, as well as developing new sites we came to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to migrate all of our e-commerce sites into one Magento install and use it to run all of our sites.

We wanted to create a single theme that we could use accross all of our websites, while also being able to control the skin of each site and also the option to override templates for a given site. My co-worker, Greg Halbert, did the design work for the site and the illustration of our new company mascot, Kaptain Kully and did a lot of the site specific CSS. I had the task of importing all of our data from the old stores into the new site, as well as creating the skeleton template and skin as well as several custom modules, including a skin module that allows us to use a default css file for all of the sites that controlls the structure, while being able to specify a css override file for each site easily. I will be posting info on that module later.

We currently have 3 sites transferred over, Flushmate Repair Parts, Zurn Products and SharkBite Plumbing, with several more to be relaunched in the next few weeks.

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