Magento

We’ve recently posted short screencasts showcasing Magento’s back-end and front-end features in action. These are great promotional movies you can embed on your site and share with your friends, clients, colleagues, etc. in an effort to spread the word.

Magento front-end tour:

Magento back-end tour:

You can always view/link to a higher resolution format on the MagentoCommerce.com site:

We prepared a short screencast of Magento Groups in action . Check it out and start a group of your own

...Let me just say, awesome! This application really rules and it should be an example of a well designed web-app. Great job.

Cristi, Web Developer and Consultant

In this video, Yoav discusses one of the most important features of Search Engine Optimization, URL rewrites. Below the video, we’ve included a screenshot that shows the database table related to this feature (click to enlarge).

UPDATE: The release referenced in the video may be pushed back to next week.

By popular demand, we’ve posted step-by-step tutorials to installing Magento on Media Temple’s (dv) Dedicated Virtual and (gs) Grid Services accounts.

Enjoy!

It’s been a busy day at Varien and tonight we are announcing the launch of Magento Groups available at http://groups.magentocommerce.com or http://www.magentocommerce.com/groups.

What are Magento Groups?

Magento Groups is the place to organize, plan and collaborate on Magento projects. Projects can be on any topic (see examples below) and in any language. Users can start/join groups and view/post blog topics, add/edit wiki articles and participate interactively towards the project goals. Examples of groups include:

• Payment Gateway Integration: Protx, eWay, Linkpoint, 2Checkout, Moneybookers, Luupay, Chronopay, NoChex, Bill Me Later, WorldPay, PayJunction, etc. (partial list taken from the The Great Big Payment Processing Thread on the forum). We expect a group would be started for each provider.
• Shipping Carrier Integration
• Usability
• Accessibilty and Standards
• Online Marketing
• Search Engine Optimization
• Development for specific modules (for example: drop shipping, auctions, POS, subscription, etc.)
• Integrations with 3rd party applications (for example: Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, Quickbooks, Peachtree, MAS2000, etc.)
• And so on...

We started the first group - Search Engine Optimization - if this is a topic that interests you, we’d love to see you join

This is an exciting feature that will provide a common set of tools for the Magento community to interact. We hope you like and as always would love to hear your thoughts.

We are proud to announce Magento Connect (MC), a marketplace for the distribution of community and commercial Magento products and services. MC is expected soon after Magento’s production release in early 2008 and will offer the following:

• Modules extending Magento’s functionality
• Themes
• Design Packages
• 3rd party integrations
• Language Packs / Locales
• Installation Packages
• Virtual Installation Images (pre-installed OS)
• Job Board
• (much much more…)

Magento Connect offers opportunities for 3rd party development firms and individuals to reach the Magento Community. We expect a large ecosystem to evolve to extend Magento’s core features.

Over the next few weeks we’ll begin sharing more specific information about our plans and our vision for making this the destination for the eCommerce community, including screenshots and screencasts of the contribution process (for both open source and commercial contributions). A forum is now available to discuss Magento Connect questions and topics.

We are excited about the potential and hope you’ll join us for the ride.

A Wikipedia post about Magento has been recently added. Check it out and update away!