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Dear friends,

Can anyone share with me your website under Magento store? I’m very new to Magento and wish to have more idea how you run your show.

Regards,
Michael Lim
KL, Malaysia

I have an online store for a home boutique, at dfdboutique.com

It’s very much a work-in-progress.

I did a blog posting talking about how I set it up.

Started with the “Modern” theme, and tweaked it.
Prior to that I looked around for other themes, but didn’t find what I wanted.

Other themes I’ve found so far seem to focus on “cutesy” colors and quirky design choices.

What I really wanted was a clean stripped down theme, that I could build on.
So ended up taking the Modern theme and adjusting that.

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For one thing, I removed the coupon block, in checkout.
Since I’m not currently doing coupons I don’t want to show that.

People see the box to enter a code and then want to go around searching to see if they can find a code (I know I do that as an online shopper). That’s just increasing the chance that they don’t go through with the purchase.
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@Darrell Merrick

You might want to rethink your choice of domain names.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/license/

Specifically:

Can I use the “Magento” trademark in one of my domain names or URLs?
No. You may not use the Magento trademark or any other mark associated with the Magento offering from our company in your domain name or URL. (For instance “www.magentohosting.com” is not allowed. See more on this topic below.)

oh wow.
No wonder the domain name was available!

I should have researched that first. Just assumed it was okay (bad assumption)

thanks for the heads-up.
I’ll switch to another domain name

@ Michael Lim: You can have a look at our Demo Store. You can also have a look at Magento’s own Demo Store.

Michael,

Here is a wiki page of some of the community’s Magento live stores:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_showcase_stores