Woodies
CMS E-commerce website development.
Woodies is a furniture and decorative home features website which allows users to buy online.
Role
Web developer
Used tools
WordPress | WooCommerce | Elementor
Skills
WordPress web development
Project duration
2 weeks
Justification
Woodies is a fictitious home furniture company which has been taken as a reference to the execution of a practice class exercise about the creation, setting, administration and management of an e-commerce website in WordPress using as main tools Elementor pro and WooCommerce plugins.
Development
As it was a class exercise, the starting point was a Figma prototyped file used to do the development of the website in WordPress using Elementor Pro visual builder, applying the style guides established in the file; then, was made the creation and configuration of fictitious products of any type (simple, grouped, related, etc.) using WooCommerce plugin; were managed the product’s stock and inventory, exploring the diverse company functionalities and was made the settings for the configuration of the shopping cart, checkout, payment management and other visual elements. Subsequently, there were made specific changes of the elements using CSS to improve the customization of the website and make it just like it was on the prototype.
Learning
This project in particular, was very useful to learn about the creation of e-commerce websites using WordPress and all the different views that must be configured to properly manage this kind of websites, furthermore, it allowed me to have a closer contact with the different tools WordPress and Elementor provides to designers and the customization of concrete elements that usually has default settings by the plugins and requires a little bit more expertise to modify.