eCommerce

In this article I explain how to create a copy of the running Magento online shop system. One of the purposes of having duplicates is e.g. the need of the separation of the developing an test environment. Tests are very important. Especially in Magento ;) Many people do official Magento upgrades on productive environments and suffer from it. You don’t need to do so, use always test environment first! So the copy process of Magento shop has following main steps...

I wrote already in the past about Magento eCommerce System. I’ve been playing with Magento until now. Unfortunately, I had some problems with the installation and I could not find any help on the web. Therefore invested time and finally figured it out for myself, maybe this post can help someone using Magento too. The Problem Every time during the installation of Magento shop I saw the following exception: Error in file: "....

Yesterday I tried Magento again. As I tried it last time it was a very very slow and buggy CMS. However last days I played with the brand new Version 0.9.17740 of it and I was positive surprized. There are only few bugs remained in that late version, even if I was still able to find some of them. Furthermore Magento-people have really speed their System up, which was enormously important to my eyes....

I’ve tried out some of eCommerce shops, but I forgot about them when i discovered a new kind on the block - Magento. Why Magento eCommerce looks promising First of all it seems to be done very professionally, starting from solid architecture but also UI aspects ending with a rich features set. Yes, in my opinion, that describes the most advantages of that shop shortly. Because in comparison to other shop systems it offers very much functionality and flexibility out of the box, combined with a good-looking default template....

It is nearly impossible to compare the advantages and disadvantages of online shop systems because they are complex systems with a variety of functions, that build for different needs. I’m talking about such a system for small and micro-businesses, where processes can be built around the functionality of such systems to some degree. So this post can be only my personal impression of a system that I compared so far....