By: Mat
Hi Rob, I’ve built a few Magento flops in my time. I use the word flops because no matter how nice your make the front-end, how much meta and seo you put in the administration area is just too...
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Yep, that’s it’s major downfall. Their developers are too focused imo and have forgotton that a normal user needs to use the admin area on a daily basis – by “normal” I refer to a none technical webby...
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Hi, Before reading this articles I was actually thinking of using Magento or Drupal for my yet to be launched web store. But now I am confused. I was under the impression that a non-technical guy can...
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By: Rob Allport
I’d advise you go and have a look at thge Magento demo admin yourself, as it really isn;t for the faint hearted If you;re handing the site over to a non technical client you’ll need to invest a decent...
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[...] of the admin area, clearly aimed at developers and not normal users (I had a little rant about Magento as an Ecommerce Platform a while ago …) – by inheriting a Magento site you now become the...
View ArticleBy: Engineer-ing.com
While I can understand the depression regarding the agency that sold absolutely nothing for £5,900, there’s absolutely no reason to be that negative about Magento. Magento is pretty much straight...
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You say that the admin area: “it’s still one of the most simple and convenient to handle ones.” Really? It’s like a spaceship. I’ve not come across a single client – even on the boat load of Magento...
View ArticleBy: Monty @ ilovemage
Magento ecommerce solution has become the most demanding open source platform of today’s online retail store businesses since it provides a tremendous advantage. With Magento Ecommerce Platform, online...
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Magento ecommerce solution has become the most demanding open source platform of today’s online retail store businesses since it provides a tremendous advantage. With Magento Ecommerce Platform, online...
View ArticleBy: Jon
I completely agree with the administration area. As a developer, it’s great having so many options; As a developer who has to walk clients through Magento, it’s a nightmare.
View ArticleBy: Chris Cox
I’ve implemented Magento for a few of my clients, and I wholeheartedly agree that the admin UI is terrible. I’m tempted to release and admin theme that would take care of some of the problems you (and...
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By: Rob
Chris Cox: I’ve implemented Magento for a few of my clients, and I wholeheartedly agree that the admin UI is terrible. I’m tempted to release and admin theme that would take care of some of the...
View ArticleBy: Chris Cox
One thing you could do is create a new Role for day-to-day admin and restrict its Resources to the more common tasks. That would take away a lot of the confusion, but I’ll stick by my terrible UI...
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By: Rob
Ha, “designed by developers for developers” sums up the admin area perfectly Contextual help would most definately be welcome. Thinking about it, I’m surprised it’s not in by default – surely it would...
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I don’t think they’re all that worried about content on their forums, as their business model for CE is releasing the product free and charging for support. I’ve been considering a couple of ideas for...
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By: rob steele
Completely agree the admin system is a complete nightmare to get used to and for me to show my clients i would be showing them for weeks on end. I am not totally convinced about the seo qualities as my...
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Personally I was quite surprised how bad it was out of the box when I forst came across Magento. As soon as you turn on SEO urls – which I imagine the majority of site owners will do – you instantly...
View ArticleBy: web design mansfield
I am skeptical on implementing Magento. Had tried earlier but i did not find it that user-friendly.
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By: Rob
Yep … and at the end of day, after the plethora of features and however well written it may be, that’s what it comes down – the users Nice site btw.
View ArticleBy: jesics
I have putted it into practice Magento for some of my clients, and I enthusiastically agree with your points that the admin user interface is very bad. It is not so much user friendly.
View ArticleBy: Umesh Ramidi
Providing a good administrative area for client is very hectic, as a developer I it easier in Magento.
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<blockquote> <a href="#comment-29309" rel="nofollow"> <strong><em>Umesh Ramidi:</em></strong> </a> Providing a good administrative area for client is very...
View ArticleBy: techguywebsolutions
Great Article. I agree 100% that Magento is no good for small stores with less than 100 products. It is meant for larger scale operations. That is horrible what your client went through with their...
View ArticleBy: Rob Allport
The problem you’re always going to have with Magento in particular is it’s complexity. Writing your own documentation is fine, but covering all the Magento topics would be an absolutely huge job....
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<blockquote> <a href="#comment-14710" rel="nofollow"> <strong><em>Chris Cox:</em></strong> </a> One thing you could do is create a new Role for day-to-day...
View ArticleBy: John
Hi, this article has left me in limbo. I was just getting stuck in to learning Magento, but now I am left in doubt. My wife’s new website would be selling up to 200 ladies accessory items in the UK. I...
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Don’t get me wrong, Magento is a good platform but those people who use it for every single ecommerce project are just plain wrong. I use Magento under the following situations, particularly large...
View ArticleBy: Red Spark
Magento has proved to be one of the best e-commerce platform. Now a days more people are increasing to have magento as shopping cart platform it proved to be outstanding and unique website development...
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