Crooked Tongues, the famous online sneakers store has been updated with a new ecommerce system - one built from scratch, based on the CMS I built for Freeview… well, not quite “based on” but there are similar features and functionality - especially the recursive navigation/categorisation structure whereby each category can have child categories… there’s a name for that design pattern but I don’t remember what it is.

Built using the Code Igniter framework by Ca Phun Ung and I, it’s very fast and robust and was completed in record time of aproximately 2 months. Most of the backend logic was done by me, templates and javascript by Ca Phun.

I’m pretty proud of this shopping cart system… it has a little bit of data redundancy but it makes the system faster so even though I’m an optimisation evangelist, I think having the redundancy is a good call.

The system is quite flexible - you can sell shoes with multiple size/quantities, apparel with up to 20 different sizes, accessories without a size, homogeneous products with 1 difference… such as a choice of colour.

Anyway, hop over to http://www.crookedtongues.com for some street culture.