Promising E-Commerce - Magento
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
The first beta version of the new open source shopping cart, Magento was released on Monday. We took a test drive on our local Windows machine and we will say that it looks very promising. There were a few kinks getting it installed on Windows, but nothing major.
The admin panel is the nicest we’ve seen for an open source cart and it has a lot of nice functions. For example, it has a nice cms-like feature that makes it easy to create static site pages for shops that want a little content.
It also has some neat javascript effects like a slider that increases or decreases product photos and drag-and-drop attributes in the admin panel.
Overall, we think it’s a great and easy to use solution out of the box. We look forward to test-driving it more on client sites when they release the stable version in early 2008.