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Your designers have certainly done a good job. Looks really good.
Cant wait to get my hands on it!
BTW r u guys using any javascript framework?

This is truly awe-inspiring for an open source ecommerce app! Heck, even beats all commercial ecommerce apps I’ve seen! We are so close!!

Roy, got your email, just replied

where’s the url to the demo shop ?

Lopsta, I’m sure it’s well obscured! :D

Looking GOOD! I hope to have my magic shop ported to it soon.

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I can’t wait to sink my teeth in to that beta. The store homepage looks pretty, and more importantly, FUNCTIONAL. Great work!

Nice, a store that sells shoes and electronics!

Finally there’s an online store where I can buy high-heels and toasters...at the same time!

Looks very nice, your designers most definitely do an excellent job.

What a tantalizing glimpse, and an uncharacteristically short post! Where are the pages upon pages of copy explaining every perfect choice that went into this design?

Just kidding, I read the part about the all-nighters. I hope this thing pays off for you, karmic-ly and economically speaking. Mainly economically, which is awfully similar to karmicaly in my mind.

Great job guys =)

Can’t wait.

Very good job ! Can’t wait as well

Hmmmm ... somehow the “wireframe” of the category pages (see post from July 31st) looked much more appealing to me. Of course you called it a wireframe, but I liked its simplicity very much and would definitely use that also as a final design.

But anyway—this is a very subjective issue. Maybe I look differently at layouts as I’m used to a more “european” style here in Germany

Nevertheless: good job!

Ok, this might be silly but......

YABBA, DABBA DOOOOO!

Looks great! I really like how sharp everything looks.

Great!
Please go on and give us this very good looking store in other languages…

Sometimes design says it all about the quality and hard work behind it.
Wonderful!

If a visitor subscribes to the newsletter, then I’ll only have an email address. Is it also possible to add a field for the first name? That way if you send out (HTML) newsletters you can personalize them by using the first name.

It looks gr8 and nice
waiting to try it live

All of you are doing a fantastic job. I await the demo release with great excitement.

Well done!

David
http://www.davidgeere.com

BTW, are there “graphic creators” that will take your category images and names in order to generate the extra graphics like the top summer sale one?

Would be pretty easy to do with GD or image magick and really give users an easy way to get great looking graphics in their shops without being designers

looks great.

just a question:
will magento offer multilanguage support right from the start? (german)

I like the homepage very much. Maybe not as much as the previous page but still an amazing job.
I need to have an ecommerce website ready for september and I do want magento for the backoffice (yes I know I should not use a beta but hey you app looks so great) and I wanted to know if I am thinking right when I say :
- all is made of blocks
- there is the central content which is the main part of the website
- there are 2 columns (eventually zero or one) that contains blocks
- you will rpovide blocks such as : advertising, cart, newsletter, comparison, reviews, ...
Am I right ?

Since I have to hand in my bachelor thesis (topic is: permission marketing) by August 30th, I would appreciate if you release it on August 31st....then I do not have to decide if I write on my thesis or test out magento commerce :o)

Anand, good point. I like to do this my self, it helps reduce chances of being filtered as SPAM and confirms to the subscriber that the email is in fact valid.

I’ve been seeing a new junk mail going around that says something like:

Dear Friend,
Thank you for subscribing to xyz site.

Then it proceeds to give them their “username” and “password” and a link to the phoney site. This doesn’t have to do with newsletters specifically, but as with most junk mail, it will not address you by name. And so that’s why I do like to get their name.

Of course, Magento is flexible enough that this should be easily extendable to provide the name functionality, but to save time for people who want it, an option to collect the name would be nice.

A fresh. New look. Gratz. I’d love to translate the whole project in Turkish.

Looks absolutely cool! Can;t wait for it to be released to change my current OSCommerce 2.2 ... Can you guys release like a preview for the BETA testers at least .. ?

Oooops, your cart as 2 items, or is it 3?

Other than that, HOT job.

Hello,

Any news regarding the translations? It would be great if we could start with it before the launch.

Thanks, Joe.

Once you release the product, with it be just from your web site or will you have mirror sites ? I can see everyone jaming the server the 1st few days it is out.

Leigh: wizardmagic.com

I have forgotten to say that if you need translations for the french version, I would be delighted if I can help

Looks great but where is the content for SEO???

Dizz : la communauté française pour Magento est en cours http://www.fragento.fr

Vous pourrez proposez votre aide pour la traduction

Could anyone please explain how the translation will go?

I need the front-end in Polish.

Hi, you talked about templating. Is using my design a breeze? I am presuming it’s very CSS friendly right?

Wonderful, can’t wait for the release, if the very end of Aug, that is my birthday to celebrate

Is the beta 1 solid for live site? I already putting two clients’s site on hold since early of July. Starting on September if I still can’t give them this sweet baby I am afraid I need to use Zencart or they find someone else :(

tgp

As with everything else in the world of beta software. Magento does not recommend using this software for a live store under beta 1.

It’s not to say you can’t, but until some of the bugs get found and worked out I myself would not want to risk loosing any clients or customers because of the possibility of an unknown glitch.

tgp

to better explain here is a quote from roy Aug 22.

“Magento Beta1 (preview version) is to be released by the end of August. As the version implies, it is a beta product and we will not recommend using it in production environments at this time. (thanks Martin for picking up the other question)”

How will translating the frond-end work?

Guys - Beta1 will showcase the potential of a phenomenal product. That said, there will be significant work to be done in terms of optimization, refactoring, bug fixing, security etc. We will strongly advise those that want to launch a production site to wait until a stable version will be released. I will publish a blog post on this issue with more details in the next few days.

I have a question about the shopping cart(s) shown on the front page.  In the header, it says My Cart (3 Items).  Then in the right column, it reads My Cart - 2 Item(s).  Ignoring the fact that it would be nice if it removed the (s) and used quantities to determine plurals, I am curious why the numbers are different. If I look at the items in the cart, it looks like you have 2 unique items with a total quantity of 3 pieces.  Is there some inconsistencies in your definition of “items”?

Also, I’m not sure of the relevance of having the “Compare Products” box on the frontpage, but that is a completely different topic (and I know that its template driven so that part is optional).

Love the cart, I can’t wait to see it later this month.

I’d call the first beta a “proof of concept” ... an incomplete realization of a certain method or ideas to demonstrate its feasibility.

That’s not to say that it won’t be a quality solution, even with beta1. As with any beta, it’s a testing phase before the production version is ready. So by using it in a live production environment, you are taking risks and will have to deal with any consequences if something bad happens. But when it all comes down to it, you still have the choice to use the beta. We just won’t recommend doing so.

That was expected but disappointing.

I need to launch a store and have been waiting on the Beta.

X-Cart for me until then I guess…

Anyone knows how one will go about translating the contents of the front-end (store)?

I have been using a beta all along (osCommerce/ZenCart) I am ready! ok ok - I might wait until Beta 2 to go live.. looking forward to Beta1!

There’s gonna be quite a few people using the Beta for production. I MAY be one of them, depending on just how healthy the 1st release is.

However, I think to those who DO take the risk in using the preview release, it’ll only speed up the bug fixing and refactoring, etc. 

I just hope that we have an active community of people who can post bugs and bug fixes UNTIL the next stable release…

We’ll see though.

Yep, that’s the best way to find bugs and such. We are essentially the beta testers, whether we test in a test/staged environment, or in a production environment.

I imagine the community site will be as busy as this blog with all these comments, if not more so. There’s a lot of buzz right now around here, I can sure hear it…

Does Magento use a template system?

You can’t say “Welcome, John Doe” and then have links like “My Account”, “My Wishlist” - they should be “Your Account”, “Your Wishlist”.

Austin, the template structure goes something like this: there are design packages which have themes, and each theme has layouts, templates, skins and translations. Layouts are XML files that define block structure, templates are phtml files, skins are css and image files, and translations are directly related to the Zend_Translate class in the Zend Framework. More info to come in the week ahead as the community site and docs are released.

What is with some of you people who can’t get over the fact that BETA 1 may not be ready for an actual production site? Some are even ‘threatening’ to use another cart? Unbelievable. This is an ECOMMERCE application. You will be dealing with other peoples private information and their money. Smarten up, dolts.

@Dean

Try telling that to eBay…

This is pretty funny… you obviously have never designed software before because the usability of this is really, really bad. Instead of a beta it’s more like a barely stable alpha. Good luck with support - you’re going to get FLOODED if you release something like this. An open source model is a recipe for failure with this product, mark my words.

Michael Quota

Please dont hate the players.

Would you have told Bill Gates that?

The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released on November 20, 1985, lacks a degree of functionality and achieved little popularity. It was originally going to be called Interface Manager, but Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows would be a more appealing name to consumers.

Now only the most used operating system in the world.

@Michael Quota, are you from ZenCart?

The usability looks good to me.

"Instead of a beta it’s more like a barely stable alpha”.

Michael Quota,
Have you implemented Magento?  Examined the code?  Spoke with the developers?  The only thing I’ve seen so far is screen shots made in Photoshop, and a few blog entries.  Why not save your observations about stability until you can actually back it up?

Looks very good!

Michael Quota:

What are you basing your assumptions on? Have you seen something the rest of us haven’t?

Maybe ditch the snide remarks until you’ve actually got something to test.

It’s looking aesthetically great.

The one thing I don’t really feel comfortable in this is all the promo banners. 2 left, 1 center and 1 bottom right.

Oh well.. probably we’ll be able to control this later on.

Will PayPal Standard be available? Or just PayPal Express Checkout?

@Andre Lang: hm..

2 pairs of shoes plus 1 pair of shoes sounds to me like exactly 3 items, and not 2… nor 6 for that matter…

Robert. the most used OS in the world is Linux. Think of all the embedded operating systems running on cell phones, etc.

The most used desktop OS is Windows.

@ Mweather

What are you in geek marketing or something?

I was just making a point against someone who was bashing magento.

I base my information on written fact not a guess.

Besides who cares about exactly how many OS are on what.

Oh yeah, BTW

What is the world’s most widely used operating system? It’s not Windows, Unix or Linux, but ITRON, a Japanese real-time kernel for small-scale embedded systems. ITRON runs on mobile phones, digital cameras, CD players and countless other electronic devices.

@Magento community

I apologize for all of the trash talk . I may have a different opinion than some people that like to bash others but I did not intend to offend.

This “project” looks absolutely stunning! We have been using OsCommerce and ZenCart for a decade now and all we out of it is a old-fashion, never-updated, ecommerce application which nobody.. uhm evolve..

Cant wait to change our t-shirt shop http://www.duffywear.com with Magento.

Can you give us a clue on how the pricing will be? A light free version and a more feature-rich payed version with support and all that stuff?

Robert: I read that 4 year old ITRON press release too. That doesn’t make it true today.

gee - looks like the gang’s a bit angst-ridden here.......

keep up the great work Magento team - it’s gonna be terrific & I can wait a bit longer

Grow up Mweather. Robert, Don’t let him get to you. He probably is one of the xcart creators!

i wish people would really stop spamming their garbage websites here

Ahh, the life of an internet retailer. Always trying to work in a way to mention their store. For instance, I’m always trying to find ways to link my store, Sky Cow Books (http://www.skycowbooks.com)!

@Austin Storm

That’s the best one yet Austin!!!

Too funny!!

Austin Storm

Wiping tears from my eyes.
Good one!

I hope when magento gets released they create a support forum so everyone can discuss issues together.

I am a little nervous about trying to learn php5 I just barely got done learning the in’s and out’s of php4.

kameko: Cant see any problem that people mention their site and that they want to move over to Magento. That duffywear-guy seemed to have done a rather ok job implementing zencart into a more or less modern design, so guess they will contribute to magento when it arrives. Nothing bad with that.
Which makes me ask; Will the first release be a more or less stable one or is it just Alpha/Beta?

its nice...cant wait any longer to try this amazing magento.

@Robert

Roy has allready mentioned there will be a support forum , im assuming it will be online in the next few days, cant wait for Magento to be released

[...] Neues von Magento: In den kommenden Tagen wird die erste Beta-Version veröffentlicht. Es gibt bereits ein Screenshot eines Magento-Demo-Store:  Quelle: magentocommerce.com/blog [...]

What happens if you have more product catorgories than may fit along the top main menu category line.  Does it just roll over to two lines?

And about using any javascript framework?

Real mature, Melanie. If the facts are immature, I’ll leave the maturity to you.

It is going to be so good !

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5 days…

Come on, everybody: cheer up !
ONLY 5 days left ! 
Let’s ready the fireworks

Looks fantastic Roy.

To all the haters, and nitpickers that complain about little details and positioning...........this is open source people.  If you don’t like something, change it.

If you don’t know how to change it, hire a qualified developer to do it for you.

These blog comments will very shortly turn into a forum and wiki in which we’ll all help one another get a grip on this new platform.

Varien is giving us a starting point that’s leap years ahead of osCommerce and ZenCart.

What would you rather start with:  What you see above with Magento?

or this:
http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/img/zencart2.jpg

or this:
http://www.nevblog.com/images/oscommerce-frontend-small.jpg

There’s no comparison.

We owe a lot to Varien for the amount of work they’ve put into this.  So play nice folks.

Looks nice !
But untill now this is just a picture on the screen...not a living store...!!! Ok, i’m too impatient !!
PS : Pour le support francais, comment entrer en contact avec Fragento ??

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Roy,

Will there be a way to block rude and abusive users from magento?

One way I felt this could be easily done without using the IP method would be to use the customers name and part of the credit card numbers.

Thank you! Robert

Very good Job

I have been silently following the progress of Magento for a while now and am eagerly awaiting the first release.

Although I am not a fan of busy ecommerce pages, I think the design above is a good proof of concept showing how the various features of Magento work together. Something for developers and designers alike to get busy with to see how it all comes together and how you can move further.

Excellent work Varian team, much appreciated.

I think Varian also dropped a little hint inside the design as to when exactly the release will come out…

Yep. Late August = 31st.

Look at the bright side, You only have about five days to go!

I really hope the server they use for downloads will be able to handle the flow and not have a total meltdown.

I will also host a copy of the download to relieve some of the congestion if the need so arises.

Please give us a reason to leave x-cart

I can’t wait to try it…