Magento Layout - hi-tech focus

One more Magento design project is successfully finished. this time it was design and installation of Magento shop for an electronics online store. One of the most challenging tasks of this project was the tremendous number of brands and products.

Here are the words that the client said:

Nice work. I’ll recommend your services to anyone! My shop looks different and really professional.

Drupal Ubercart setting up

For many years Drupal was one of the main open source CMS systems on PHP for the sites of almost all types. Small and medium business companies loved it for cheap hosting for their site developed on PHP. Large companies for their project have chosen Drupal because the Drupal community have united many talented developers and have been growing and growing. This guaranteed that it was rather easy to find the appropriate qualified software development team for the project.

The other good features of Drupal CMS helped companies and entrepreneurs to make decision in its favor. Among them are SEO-friendly concept, good level of security and access to the huge list of free Drupal themes.
Ubercart is a module (or maybe better to say it’s a system) what was created specially as a eCommerce solution that would be integrated with all the other Drupal’s core systems and modules. This allowed to inherit all the best features of Drupal system and to integrate it easily.
Today Drupal accompanied by Ubercart can be easily used as an independent e-commerce solution and as a part of a web site. The second variant is widely used when e-commerce is not the company’s main business. For example, spot teams site are dedicated to the team achievements but also can sell some tee with logos using Drupal for both purposes.

But unfortunately Drupal is not really very developer-friendly software. As it was created many years ago the code doesn’t meet all the contemporary software development principles. In some modules the code isn’t well structured and sometimes it can take hours to find a part of a code to make necessary changes if developer is not familiar with Drupal very well.

If you’ve faced these or other Drupal challenges and looking for a team to set up Drupal or Ubercart for your e-commerce purposes Oxagile e-commerce department is at your service. We have more than 3 years of successful experience with Drupal and guarantee that your project will be done in time and within the approved budget.

Contact the manager today to start the project before the weekend.

Design for Magento

As Magento e-commerce solution becomes more and more popular thanks to its advantages and huge amount of additional features, more of our customers want the original design of the shop to be changed.

So, our company decided to add a new service to the list of “Magento development services“. From this day Oxagile can become officially responsible for the impression that your store makes the visitors. By the way, this impression is very essential and can influence the bounce rate of your site greatly!

Flexibility is a king!

One more client has turned to us asking to create a design for his e-commerce site. While doing the work for him we had a chance to ask why he had chosen Magento software solution for his business. And the answer was FLEXIBILITY!

Flexibility of Magento features doesn’t mean boundless opportunities. But they are almost the best if to speak about existing open source solutions for e-commerce. Seems that more commercial shopping cart vendors have to start being afraid.

Magento: new e-commerce solution

Magento is an e-commerce platform that is developing rapidly nowadays.
The main pros for Magento are the following:
1. It’s free of charge. You may install it just after downloading. And it really doesn’t require additional expenses on installing and tuning.
2. It has well-developed and structured wiki-style knowledge base.
3. Magento community has tons of experience. If you have decided to make very specific changes to Magento code you may find a piece of advise at Magentocommerce forums.
4. The platform is VERY SEO-friendly.
5. and many others…

But if your requirements are so specific that you cannot find the answer at forums you start drifting to Magento cons . Magento freelance professionals’ hourly rates start from $50. And you needs and wants may cost too much… Or maybe not too much if you drop a line to Oxagile Magento development team.

Magento: something different in eCommerce

A new player is coming to the industry of eCommerce solutions. It’s called Magento (I’m not sure that this name will not be changed as it sounds a bit strange for a e-commerce shopping cart or something like this). The official site to see the demo and download it - http://www.magentocommerce.com

The most reviews are really positive. So, here at Oxagile we are ready to try it. We were impressed that it’s a completely free software (or better to say – open source eCommerce soft). And we are going to test it for free and to share our observations here.

So, if you are interested – follow this blog!