Handout From Corvallis e-Tailing Magento eCommerce Presentation
Yesterday I gave a presentation to the Corvallis e-Tailing Group in town on Magento eCommerce Community Edition. We used Magento to build the 300dpi web site so we have experience skinning it, adding plug-ins, get plug-ins to play nicely, and extending Magento.
Overall, I have mixed feelings. I think its very powerful and has tons of features. And out of the box it looks nice and could really be easy if you don't mind the general Magento look and feel (or find a template you like).
On the other hand, I felt that if you need to extend it at all beyond the base functionality, then it gets much more complicated. The plug-ins can be good, but don't always work well or play nice with each other. Also, the CMS functionality is quite primitive.
Here's the handout I created in case anyone is interested:
