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Seems Magento eCommerce application is the most popular solution for ecommerce development. Its number of downloads has already reached 475,000 and even more. So the number of online Magento stores is constantly growing as well. If you are attentive to our posts you already know that we review the newest Magento online stores that appear online.
Currently there isn’t too much information on Magento to be found on the net. Magento webmasters and online merchants are constantly looking for new articles on Magento. So each new Magento-related website meets with warm recognition from the public. The same happens to Magentohosting.biz. This website tells about Magento open source shopping cart, its advantages and etc.
The main topic which is discussed at Magentohosting.biz is the hosting for Magento online stores. Magento Hosting is the hosting that enables building successful Magento stores with a fast download time. This is also the hosting that will never let your online store down.
So in a case you are interested to know more about Magento and Magento Hosting Requirements you are welcomed to visit Magentohosting.biz. It’ll help you find out which hosting is the most appropriate to Magento application.
Note this site informs about some Magento Hosting providers as well. These are hosting providers that have proved that their servers meet Magento Hosting requirements.
Professionally developed Magento Themes
Magento Themes are ready made web page designs for building online Magento shops. Note Magento is a powerful and feature-rich e-commerce application which has been downloaded more than 475,000 times. The number of downloads prove that Magento open source shopping cart is a great solution when it comes to ecommerce development. Magento allows the online merchants to control the look, content, and functionality of their online stores.
Yes, Magento is a great for building online shops. Though, it lacks attractive designs which could help Magento online stores look different from each other. Seems this problem will disappear in the nearest future.
Professionally developed Magento Themes will be available for purchase. You’ll be able to find them at Magentothemes.biz.
Currently Magentothemes.biz offers Zen Cart Themes and OsCommerce Themes but the 4th of November will be an important day for Magento webmasters and online merchants. The case is that November the 4th is the day when Magento Themes will be added to Magentothemes.biz.
It means you’ll get a wide choice of easy-customizable and nice-looking designs for Magento to make your Magento online store look exactly the way you wish. Magento Themes can be used while building a new Magento-powered online store or redesigning already existing one.
Be sure to visit Magentothemes.biz on the 4th of November and browse a diverse collection of impressive Magento Themes. Let your Magento online store look original in order to attract success!
The more Magento online shops, the better
If you’ve missed browsing online Magento stores we’ve prepared some screen shots for you. These screen shots show Magento-powered online stores.
All stores that are mentioned in our post have switched to Mageno application quite recently. The main reason is that Magento is a new solution. Still a very popular one because online merchants enjoy this open-source shopping cart, its features and possibilities. So it’s time to enjoy browsing the companies that trust Magento.
Zalando is on Magento. Note Zalando is a German online store that sells footwear.
Sferis is on Magento as well. Sferis is one of the largest electronic online stores in Poland.
Powerhouse Fitness, a UK based fitness equipment chain, has also chosen Magento to be its basement.
More Magento online stores are waiting for you in the future.
New payment gateways supported by Magento
Good news for Magento store managers and Magento customers. From now on 50 more payment gateways are supported by Magento.
Recently added payment gateways are available via Magento Connect. Note Magento Connect is the marketplace where community and commercial Magento extensions are being exchanged. Having visited Magento Connect you can see different Magento tools which can help you improve your Magento store’s functionality. Magento Connect is the right place to come in a case you’re looking for a new Magento Theme or Magento module. If you want to add functionality to your Magento store you can find it at Magento Connect as well. Don’t be in a hurry to develop a new Magento tool. Probably someone has already done it and you can download it at Magento Connect.
So Magento webmasters don’t stand still and they go on developing Magento application and enhancing it with new extensions. Currently Magento open sourse shopping cart supports over 50 payment gateways. It means customers have a wide choice of payment methods to choose from. So Magento online stores look more welcoming than the other online stores when it comes to payment options.
Here is a list of payment gateways that are currently supported by Magento:
• Fontis Australia
• Cybersource
• Protx
• Tweakmag Payment
• SPPLUS
• Fontis New Zealand
• eWAY
• ChronoPay
• ePay
• Paybox
• iDEAL
• Flo2Cash Web Service
• Protx Direct Payment Module
• PagSeguro Payment Module
• CyberMUT Paiement / Paiement CIC
• Modu? platnosci.pl dla Lento
• Payone
• PaySimple
• UOS Paymentmodule
• Fontis Paymate
• Fontis Payment Express
• Dibs Payment
• WorldPay
• Bank Prepayment
• VCS
• Saferpay
• Datarans Paymentgateway
• SecureTrading XPay Module
• Ogone Payment
• Payment Module: ECS Clearing Interface
• Modulo Banca Sella 1.1
• Magento LinkPoint API Payment Module
• LinkPoint API Payment Module for Magento
• Fontis SecurePay
• Cash On Delivery
• PSiGate API Payment Module
• Nedbank iVeri Paygate
• PayPoint.net (SECPay) Payment Gateway Module
• Metodo de pago Servired
• Servired
• 2Checkout.com payment module
• Fast Transact Integration module
• BBS Payment Gateway
• Fontis Westpac PayWay
• Fontis NAB Transact
• Barclays ePDQ
• ClickandBuy
• Optimal Payments Firepay
Note this list doesn’t include Authorize.net, Paypal (various products), Google Checkout and Check/Money Orders. The case is that the above mentioned payment modules have been supported by Magento before. Of course they are still supported by Magento application together with the new ones.
Magento Modules
Magento is a fast developing eCommerce application. Magento offers rich customization possibilities by extensions and modules. The case is that Magento is built on a fully modular model. So your Magento store has unlimited scalability and flexibility. So module is an important element for Magento software.
Let’s find out what Magento Module is. Magento module is an extension which extends the features and functionality of Magento. While speaking about module examples we should mention additional payment gateway integrations, a featured items promotional tool, and etc. Thanks to the fact that Magento goes with fully object-oriented programming, all modules are immediately accessible via templates tags from any template files.
Magento is of a great interest for webmasters. So new Magento Modules are regularly being developed. In order to track all Magento Modules a special article called Modules Wanted has appeared. This article describes existing Magento Modules and gives links where you can find them. In a case you are well in Magento application and you’ve developed a Magento Module by yourself you can add it to the above mentioned article.
Developing Magento Modules will allow you to inject functionality anywhere. There are many things custom Modules can do, from editing your Database, to handling module upgrades to overriding classes (Blocks, Controllers, Models) and etc.
Magento open source shopping cart has recently appeared. Nevertheless it has a strong and helpful community without mentioning professional Magento Team. So you’ll get help any time you ask for it at Magento forums.
Install Magento easily
If you are attentive to our posts you’ve already discovered several Magento Tutorials with us. Most luckily people trust those tutorials which show that the author of the tutorial has succeeded having followed the instructions he/she gives in his/her tutorial.
Today’s tutorial which teaches how to install Magento is exactly of this kind. This tutorial has been written by Magento Store manager. All steps described in the tutorial helped him to build a successful Magento online store. So this online store illustrates that the tutorial is really helpful for building Magento stores.
While reading the tutorial you’ll see that every little step you should make while installing Magento is well explained and well illustrated. Large screen shots show everything you should do in order to succeed with the installation process. Here is just one screenshot from this tutorial
Click Here pointers show which button you should click and what option you should choose. Seems this Magento tutorial will be a wonderful solution for those of you who are the beginners with Magento.
The author of the tutorial states that Magento installation won’t take you longer than 15 minutes. Sounds very attractive, isn’t it. So you can try the tutorial and find out if the author was telling the truth.
In spite of the fact that Magento is not very easy to install the tutorial introduced by a current Magento user will great a good job for you.
Magento stores family has been enlarged
Two more online shops have chosen open source Magento shopping cart. Cacties and Mikatani are on Magento to be exact.
Cacties sells neckwear, apparel and accessories. This online shop is originally designed and it’s easy to navigate. Cacties has added a blog to its online shop. The blog should bring additional traffic and more potential customers to this online store. All products represented at MyCacties.com are filled with the spirit of the American West. If you visit Cacties’s About Us page you’ll learn than this very shop has been created “for that man whose heart is in the iconic American west, wherever his feet may be planted.” My wish list page allows customers order some original stuff and Store location page informs about those shops which sell products offered at MyCacties.com offline. It’s easy to notice that MyCacties.com has a good Page Rank (currently it is 5). It’s one more proof that Magento helps you build SEO friendly online stores.
Mikatani is a French online store which sells clothes, jewelry, bags, cups, and etc. In spite of the fact that Magento allows switching to multiple languages Mikatani has chosen to be in French only. Probably Mikatani doesn’t want to sell its products all over the world. Though, it can easily become an international online shop if the store manager enables multiple languages which are included into Magento shopping cart by default.
Considering the fact that Cacties and Mikatani are on Magento now these online shops have a reliable, flexible and easy-manageable eCommerce platform. Let’s wish them good luck and prosperity.
Varien which has created Magento
Our blog usually tells about Magento, its pros and cons. Though, we haven’t discussed Magento developers yet. So who are they? Who are these people who have created a shopping cart which has been downloaded more than 450,000 times during the past year? All these people work at Varien.
Varien is an eCommerce platform provider. The company was founded in 2001. It’s located in Los Angeles, CA. Years of Varien experience resulted into a fast growing open source shopping cart. Seems Varien Team has done a great job having created Magento. Great control and flexibility of Magento made it incredibly popular among web masters and online store managers. Shopping cart platform Magento proves that wonderful eCommerce solutions can be downloaded for free.
Professional web developers who work at Varien hasn’t been satisfied with existing Open Source eCommerce solutions. So creating a new shopping cart which could correspond to all requirements was the best way to solve this problem.
Varien faced plenty of competition but it hasn’t prevented this company from moving ahead and developing a really useful solution. Seems competition was very motivating for Varien and still is because Magento receives updates and it means it пoes on developing.
Varien is famous for being an industry leading eCommerce provider. This firm is devoted to developing web sites, internet applications, and innovative user experiences. Varien is always open for new web technologies and strives to integrate them with user-friendly interface design.
If you are interested to find out more on Varien we suggest you to visit its official website (www.varien.com).
Magento 1.1.6 has been released
As each ecommerce application Magento benefits from different updates. So a recent release of Magento 1.1.6 has been warmly accepted by Magento community. No doubt all bugs noticed since the last Magento release have been taken into consideration and fixed. Having explored Magento 1.1.6 you’ll find out the next improvements:
- Google Checkout table rates work perfectly;
- While upgrading existing databases you won’t experience SQL error any more;
- Refreshing products count in categories management page won’t make you any troubles;
- From now on order status after creating an invoice will be shown in a right way;
- Translations and locale settings used in PDF print-outs have been fixed as well;
- Managing product categories has been also made more effective.
Note we’ve listed just several improvements which have been made. Of course there aren’t perfect things but there are great things and Magento belongs to the last ones. In fact Magento has launched a blank theme for building online shops. This theme has a very simple design but it can be useful for those who can’t afford custom made design or purchasing professionally designed Magento themes.
Magento wins one prize after the other
Magento open source shopping cart goes on meeting with warm recognition from the public. As you probably already know SourceForge.net has announced the winners from 2008 Community Choice Awards and Magento has been recognized to be the Best New Project of the year.
Recently Magento has won one more prize. “Best of Open Source Enterprise Applications (E-Commerce)” at Infoworld’s annual BOSSIE Awards to be exact. Considering the fact that BOSSIE Awards is InfoWorld’s awards for the Best of Open Source Software Magento seems to have really good reputation. The 2008 BOSSIE winners include 60 products in nine categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage. So BOSSIE has chosen 9 companies to be the best ones and Magento is one of them.
It has been mentioned that choosing winners is always difficult because the quantity and quality of free software offerings is constantly growing. Still Magento is worth to be chosen the winner. The number of downloads it already has proves that the prize has found the right company. Seems Magento users should be proud to apply such famous and fast developing software.