Macromedia Drumbeat 2000 eCommerce Edition

by Macromedia

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00002S6UT
• Item model number: BDW10D03
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,454 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #47 in Software > Web Development > e-Commerce
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Drumbeat 2000 eCommerce Edition has the features and capabilities of Drumbeat 2000 (ASP), plus additional features for building secure, fully customizable online stores. It's the fastest way to build Web applications and Web interfaces to existing applications and databases powered by Active Server Pages (ASP). The visual drag-and-drop interface and sophisticated wizards enable you to quickly build ASP applications that access and update data in real time and work across all major browsers--without manual coding.

The eCommerce edition includes everything you need to develop online stores that scale to support thousands of products and are simple to maintain. Build stores quickly using built-in tax and shipping calculations and sophisticated merchandizing options such as discounts, cross-selling, frequent-shopper points, and automatic order confirmations. Wizards and point-and-click interactions let you quickly create a full-featured e-commerce application.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Short on literature, December 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Macromedia Drumbeat 2000 eCommerce Edition (CD-ROM)

Drumbeat e-commerce is a powerful e-commerce and asp design tool but unfortuantely comes with very little, not to say too little literature on how to put the aspects of the site together. The asp elements are well explained but the e-commerce tasks and instructions come in a brief guide that doesn't answer all questions relative to building an e-commerce application. If it wasn't for this lack of instructions in the user's guide, which Microsoft is well known for, I would have given the software five stars. Think about buying Drumbeat for Dummies to complete the product.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great, but needs a rework, February 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Macromedia Drumbeat 2000 eCommerce Edition (CD-ROM)

I bought the Drumbeat 2000 E-commerce package last August. To put it mildly, I was disappointed. The creation of non-"e-commerce" pages are fairly easy to do after you get an understanding of Drumbeat's inheritance. Don't be mislead by the "easy-to-use" statements on the package. If you've worked with a lot of Microsoft products - beware - this isn't like any of Microsoft's applications. (Not that that's bad.)Nothing will be familiar to you. You will have to learn a whole new vocabulary - Drumspeak. When I got this it was made by Elemental Software. When I was notified that Macromedia had purchased it, I was very hopeful that the problems would be ironed-out. Dreamweaver is an awesome program. Now, I'll be looking for Drumbeat to inherit the excellence of Macromedia's products. They have always had great documentation and support for their products. They are truly easy to learn. The present Drumbeat version by Macromedia is exactly the same as the Elemental Software version. All that was changed was the box. The next upgrade promises to be the best version of Drumbeat. I'll wait for that one.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love Drumbeat!, March 25, 2000

By 

Christopher Meredith (Ardmore, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Drumbeat 2000 eCommerce Edition (CD-ROM)

I have been using Drumbeat 2000 eCommerce edition for approximately 6 months now and absolutely love it! The "Starting Points" (pre-written website applications used for examples of various aspects of the app) really hammer home the basics. Macromedia has a very handy online database of tips & tricks for using Drumbeat as well. One thing that many 'hardcore' ASP/HTML coders will miss is the ability to view the source code as you go; this is only accessible after publishing the various pages and viewing source in another editor or in something like notepad. The shopping cart is a cinch to setup, and the overall layout of Drumbeat is very comfortable. I have created an online record store as well as 3 other sites - using Drumbeat for everything but image manipulation. This is a good application and a dream for people who's strength lies more in the design than the coding. You can lay everything out exactly as you want, right click on the elements and add Java/VB-Script to them to assign various interactions. Piece of Cake!