Hey guys and ecommerce lovers,
my good old friend rizi (Rico Neitzel), who does most of the customization programming on Sharebrain, organizes a large community event for the new upcoming star of open source ecommerce platform: MagentoCommerce. I'm happy to invite you in the name of Rico and netresearch to this first Magento Community Event in Germany. Themed under “Meet Magento” beginners, switchers and professionals talk about tips, tricks and innovations on Magento Commerce in Leipzig on February 5th, 2009. Netresearch, one of the first Magento Platinum Partner in Germany, agreed to co-organize this happening:
Time: Februar 5th, 2009 from 9.00 a.m.
Location: Mediencampus Leipzig, Germany
More information can be found at http://www.meet-magento.de.
Roy Rubin, CEO of Varien, the company inventing Magento, gives a keynote speak. After there will be lectures and workshops.
We are happy to give away 5 entry tickets for free. To get yours, just leave a comment until january 15th explaining why magento is your first choice in ecommerce or why you dismissed Magento until now!*
Meet Magento - February, 5th 2009 - Join now!
*) Only submit one comment each! Winners will be selected randomly.
Would be great to get one of these tickets.
Hey Dpunkt,
then just tell us why you use magento and what you like. Or why you don´t use it !
Hi Sebastian,
I'm glad to confirm that you'll get one of these tickets. Thomas and i congratulate!
Further information will be sent by mail to you!
Thanks for your reply.
Rico
Hi Y'all,
right now I'm evaluating magento. There some arguments why I think that magento is a good choice for a professional web shop system:
- real Open Source Project, that is well supported and maintained
- very good shopping functionality
- Integration of a CMS-Module
- Multi-Store, Multi-Website and Multi-View Features - that is great even if I don't understand exactly where the differences are and it makes some Issues in the Admin-Area a bit complicated
- nice update and Plugin-Management via Mageno-Connect
- nice programming codex and structure
Sure, there are many other points, but I mentioned the important ones for me. And now the issues that I do not like so much:
- Only few free templates available
- Template-design is not that easy, because there are lots of templates in lots of folders and css and templates are separated in different folders
- Installing a new template for a new Website or View is not that easy
- The Admin-Area is sometimes difficult to handle (there is so much functionality, that I don't understand)
- some legal issues for german Online-Shops are missing in the standard Installation and have to be set up manually
Hi Detlev,
you grabbed the second one! You'll get a informational email too!
Congrats!
Rico and Thomas
I've had your blog in my bookmarks for a couple of days now and just wanted to say that I really love your articles! ^^