Which is Better Magento or osCommerce?
Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Dave in Tutorials
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As a freelance developer I must say that since they released Magento last year I’ve been really dreading the idea of making the switch over from osCommerce. To me it seemed like a no brainer – I thought osCommerce has been around a while and, as such, there is a very well established community whom are fairly responsive to any unfathomable problems you may have, should you post within their forums.
Plus there is a ton of “contribution” or “modules” to be found on the OS site. Need a CMS on your site? It’s there. Need to make and dispatch money off coupons? Sorted. Want the increasingly popular lightbox effect on your images? All doable.
Beside everything comes with clear instructions and, on the whole, are regularly updated with bug fixes so if you get one that’s a few months old, chances are it’ll work just fine.
However, what finally caught my attention about Magento was not all those great features, like coupons, specials, multiple checkout and shipping options, with all those option things start to get a little too complex, actually the one thing that really peaked my interest is that I learned that templatemonster was getting in on that action – so it is my pleasure to announce and present you our new Magento themes!
Everything you love about our templates and less of what you hate – they removed all the complexity and technical details so you don’t have to. Take a look at some of these samples while I tell you more about Magento.
Magento is an open source eCommerce web application that has a modular architecture and is extremely flexible. It comes with a number of online shop maintenance capabilities.
Magento is also simple to configure and easy to customize. And despite the fact that it was launched just a year ago, it has been gaining more and more popularity among Web designers and e-business owners.
Magento also has an innumerable amount of credentials in its pocket from some very big e-solution players. Magento Enterprise Edition, a commercial version aimed at larger companies, was launched this April. The CMS includes such advanced features as marketing, promotional and SEO tools; analytics and reporting; mobile commerce; catalog-management tools.
And now Magento users have the freedom to customize their store with new themes, templates and plug-ins…
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