What's Magento Framework ?

Magento Framework : Why should you use it?

Well !! We all know it's difficult to be Amazon.But having a start with almost no investment is not a bad idea.This is where Magento comes to the rescue.

What is Magento?

Magento is basically a framework to make your life easy if you want to make an E-commerce website like amazon.com, flipkart.com, lenskart.com, snapdeal.com, etc.You can try some of the themes offered my Magento for free and all you have to do is upload your products.Also you can choose from a lot number of custom themes related to niches like travel,medical,science,fiction,food and much more.If you become a paid member, then there is a lot for you to cheer about.You can expect excellent community support. 

I would like to highlight some of the key advantages:

• Easy payment gateway integration.
• Awesome support.
• Easy to use and understand.
• Ample tutorials out there on YouTube and and other websites.
• Highly customizable.

Why should you use it?

If you have an awesome idea about an E-Commerce website and you think that I will build it from scratch, then I would say - Best of luck!!! It's not impossible of course.But still, it will be very time consuming and others may get ahead of you in the mean time.So my advice to you would be that you should try out Magento and make your dream come true within a few days.You can easily categorize the products you want to sell and Magento even reminds you when a particular product is about to go out of stock.Basically it's very easy to manage inventory.Many people are enjoying Magento's services and their dream of an E-cart website is blooming and growing.You may also appreciate after giving it a try.

Here are the screen shots of my admin panel for one of my websites:

1) This is how the admin panel looks like:

Magento Admin Panel

2) You can manage various categories. For example my E-commerce website deals with beauty and fashion stuff. The screen shot below shows you that:

Managing Categories

3) You can add products to various categories and believe me it's a cakewalk.See below:

   Step 1: Click on add product on the top right corner.

Adding a new product

   

   Step 2: Choose the Type of product

 Choose Product type

 Step 3: Click on continue.Now you land on a page where you have to fill various details about your product and upload its image and put it in some category.You can give it some meta description and much more. See all the properties that you have to fill on the left.

 Fill in the required details about the product

That's it!! It's that easy.All you have to do is make desired categories and upload products into them and your E-commerce website is up and running.Who knows you have a mind blowing idea related to E-commerce that would fetch millions and billions. This would be of great help to start off.

You can test your website by placing orders, giving unnecessary inputs and whatever!!! But it won't let you down.I hope you enjoyed reading this article.If you feel it can be improved, please share with us.