Ordered a bunch of stuff at 2 minutes to midnight (my time) and Jeff sent me a shipping email at 1:20 AM!
You guys are too efficient. I submitted an order to digikey (admittedly for a lot more individual items) at the same time and they haven’t even responded yet 
The Sparkfun boys are pretty cool, that’s for sure. I actually visit the front page here to see what new stuff they’ve cooked up – surely that justifies them doing an RSS feed 
Mind you, never ceases to amaze me how I can order from Digikey at 18.30hr my time and have my order at 08.00hr the next morning – bear in mind I’m in a different country and a long way from MN
-marc
Digikey is amazing. We strive to be like the northern MN folk…
We try to process orders same day. You fell in the right time slot that day!
RSS Feed - Ben just turned me onto www.pluck.com. Simply amazing! We looking for a website guru to over-haul the SFE site. RSS is one of the requirements on the list. Does anyone, know anyone, who can take the SFE website and beat it into a nicer, friendlier site?
Here is our first attempt at a redesign:
http://www.sparkfun.com/redesign/
Thoughts? Comments on what needs to be touched up on the current site?
-Nathan
nice colours ish.
The green is too green u might try and pick up on the green shades from the fade out in the banner
I’m a webapp guy, I may be able to help you guys out somehow…
I’m currently in the middle of conceiving a couple of components for Z-toys.com, a shopping cart system and a content management system (like a blog sorta, but more tailored towad business), and RSS will be an integral part of it all.
Depending on whether you guys get something else going sooner, when I get this stuff beat into submission we can work out tailoring it to sparkfun.
Yep - we’re interested. I’m looking into ‘product cart’ software. There seems to be a nasty gap between near free software (~$100) and enterprise suites (>$10k). We’re stuck in between.
-Nathan
You could consider something like DotNetNuke (www.dotnetnuke.com) as a base. It is an open source web application that can accept a shopping module.
Here is a sample site that is run off of snowcovered.com’s Portal Store ($199 with full Source)
There are other shopping cart modules… this was just the first one I came to that had a link to a functioning store.
I can dig up some more info if you would like. (I actually am playing with DNN on one of my personal sites, while I cannot add modules, I can let you tink around if you would like to see DNN in motion.)
-Skot123
You can do some very content rich sites in TYPO3 (http://www.typo3.org).
For reasonably-priced cart software, look at both X-Cart and Webassists’s WebCart.
-marc