- Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 1st Edition. edition (Dec 21 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430272295
- ISBN-13: 978-1430272298
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 562 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #418,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
This book takes a comprehensive look at Magento, a robust and flexible e-commerce platform built on the Zend framework. With over 750,000 downloads, Magento is the fastest growing open source e-commerce solution. This book walks you through all of the steps necessary to build a fully functional Magento-based web site. It also includes information on managing products, customers, and orders. This book is directed at web site designers and developers, but will also be extremely useful for business owners who have web sites built on the Magento platform.
- Introduces you to Magento, the fastest-growing open source e-commerce platform
- Demonstrates how to configure and use Magento
- Covers how to customize Magento and develop extensions for the Magento platform
What you’ll learn
- How to install and set up a Magento based e-commerce web site
- How to effectively manage products, customers, and orders
- How to sell products through Magento
- How to design a custom Magento web site
- How to add content to your Magento web site
- How to create your own Magento extensions
Who is this book for?
Current and prospective web site designers and web developers; small business owners who want an online presence
About the Author
Adam McCombs is a website designer and a front end developer with over seven years of experience. He specializes in adapting open source frame works such as Magento, Wordpress, Joomla!, and Drupal into functional custom website solutions for clients of small and medium sized businesses. His work and blog can be found at www.mccombs.me.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Very basic stuff..,
This review is from: The Definitive Guide to Magento (Paperback)
Well, I bought this book thinking that it will help me enhance my knowledge of Magento and to tell you the truth - I'm quite disappointed. Having set up two Magento stores myself I was looking for something more in-depth.
The first half of the book gives overview of frontend and backend menus in Magento - with screenshots on every page. I'm sure that anyone who has worked even a little bit with Magento is already familiar with these. The second part covers installation of Magento and very basic modifications/customizations to the store. The final part has a few pages of API commands that are somewhat out of context because nowhere in the book the authors give any guidance on why API should be used.. This book might be helpful for some who have no experience with Magento whatsoever but even then, I feel it's too thin on actual useful information (again, 2/3 of the book is screenshots). I wish I didn't spend $40 on this book. Not very impressed with Apress publishing either - I found numerous typos in the book. It looks like there was nobody to proof it:(
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2.6 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Maybe I Should Start Writing Books,
By Jonathan Steinmann - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Definitive Guide to Magento (Paperback)
The Definitive Guide To Magento... really? Unless you're the kind of person that in general has a hard time using computers, about 60% of this book is a complete waste of time in my opinion. Even if you only have maybe a year of web design/development experience, just follow the download instructions online (which is basically download and run and localhost... not hard), and poke around the magento admin area yourself.
The book has an obsession with providing examples to connect to magento via xml and soap toward the end (which most people wont need to do with magento at all but at least it's more definitive like of a topic), but that's about the only thing worth mentioning that a developer would be interested in. Designing custom themes, apps, extensions, ecommerce modules, shipping modules, etc.etc... MIA or skimmed in a few pages. If the book was titled Getting Started with Using Magento Admin... i'd say the book did a good job... but I also wouldn't have bought it. summary: if you're an absolute beginner with magento, have a hard time using computers in general, and really just want to know how to use magento once everything has been setup for you... this is a good book. If you're a web developer deploying your first magento ecommerce store... there's no depth or information in this book worthy of the price tag so I wouldn't recommend it. If you're a veteran and have created a magento ecommerce store in the past... don't even think about this book. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing you can't find online,
By Colin Stuart "bluescrubbie" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Definitive Guide to Magento (Paperback)
Magento is famous for it's incredible lack of documentation. To learn, you Google search for what you want.
I bought this overpriced book because I hoped paying for something would get me more comprehensive information than what's online. Sadly, this is not the case. It's basically an ordered regurgitation of what's on the web. Everything I have tried to look up is not in the book, and it took me longer to find out, because the index is SO weak. If you're the type of person who cannot stand searching for information online, you might find use for this, but I'll be returning it. 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not exactly "Definitive",
By K. Thompson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Definitive Guide to Magento (Paperback)
The "Definitive" in the title set my expectations higher than they should have been. The first half is pretty much a walk through of installing and setting up a Magento store without much value added. Then the book plunges into advanced topics with several chapters on how to customize code. The book is uneven at best.
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