Not many developers fill the site with real, or similar data. In most cases, everything ends with the creation of the categories Test1, Test2 ... and the goods Item1, Item2 ... Of course, this cannot reflect / show the real behavior of the site / template. If the goods are not always all bad, then the categories are almost always something wrong. How to qualitatively test the layout of the site, see below.
By the nature of their activities we are constantly confronted with the filling of online stores. Therefore, I would like to talk about the problem / situation / sore, which occurs quite often, and I came across it, I think, everything.
It consists in the following: the client has recently completed the development of the site / design / layout, everything is smooth and beautiful, and he, satisfied and happy, begins to fill it. After adding / importing goods and categories, certain parts of the site begin to “go”. “Everything is lost!” - the client thinks, and begins to look for the guilty ... ')
What usually “goes” in design ?: - do not display levels of nesting more than the third; - the design is not designed for large texts in the descriptions (product names); - ease of navigation through several pictures; - unbelievable, but pagination doesn't work; - unexpected tables in the text of the descriptions that may be with their styles.
There are not many reasons why it “rides” , one of them is poor testing, or lack thereof, of the theme (template) of the site.
before import :
after import :
For normal testing, it is necessary to create at least several levels (nesting) of categories, make category names of different lengths (and not Test1 or Category1), of a couple of words, etc. With the goods as well - different length of the name of the goods, different length of the price of the goods, with and without a fractional part, 1 and several photos of the goods, etc.
In order to reduce the number of design refinements to the designer and customer, we have prepared and offer (for free!) Demo data for online stores. The demo data is prepared for various cms, all import file templates are standard and imported through standard import modules.
When creating demo data, we tried to reflect the maximum possible number of situations and options for combining products and categories in order to bring the online store testing closer to actual work with real products.
References: Download demo data here . Wishes, comments, “if your cms is not in the list” - everything can be written in the comments here and on the forum .
Ps. About Magento. Magento has flexible CSV import logic, so almost any archived example can be imported into Magento. In the near future we will add a special template for Magento.