Comments on: Review: Magento Beginner’s Guide

By: 12 month loan

12 month loan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:28:13 +0000

One of the overall themes that William Rice maintains is that it is important to plan in the beginning as much as you can in order to save a great deal of time later down the road.

By: odays

odays — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:48:12 +0000

so many features in the Community edition and since its open source it has already taken the world.

By: web hosting

web hosting — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:25:48 +0000

This is a must read guide for magento beginners. I think it´s one of best ecommerce platforms

By: DFW Real Estate

DFW Real Estate — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:20:02 +0000

I have not heard of Magento before, but this is a great introduction!

By: Online for cash

Online for cash — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:42:42 +0000

Nowadays, Magento is known as the best eCommerce platform. Anyway, Thanks Ben for sharing those useful comments. Excellent review.

By: computer forensics tool

computer forensics tool — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:24:59 +0000

Never heard of Magento, but I should for sure check it out.

Would it be even possible to build an ecommerce site with Magento? Or would Worpress be more suitable for that?

By: Get a quick loan online

Get a quick loan online — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:56:55 +0000

I think that it is definitely fit as there are many ways to develop the small business, the tricks and techniques are very much efficient for the growth and development of the business.

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:15:57 +0000

Definitely Magento is the best eCommerce platform available today….I mean its my favorite. With so many features in the Community edition and since its open source it has already taken the world.
Thanks Ben for this wonderful article. I landed to your website while searching for some addons of Magento.

Thanks
TC

By: Carey

Carey — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:59:53 +0000

Good review of the book, I enjoyed reading it although I am not sure if there is anything I could really use from it. I did a review and analysis of my experience with Magento here:

http://www.pickledshark.com/magento-ecommerce-complicated-bloated-brilliant/

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:25:14 +0000

@David: Unfortunately, I am pretty sure that would violate the trust between MYM and the author of the book. It is extremely in-depth and not free (although the author has a few links where you can get a preview above). I highly recommend it. This book is available at the following locations: here and here. @William: Thank you for your insight, keep us up to date!

By: William Rice

William Rice — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:29:05 +0000

I’m glad to have my book reviewed on a site that advocates financial self-reliance and responsibility. Magento can help people to become entrepreneurs, and thereby take greater control of their future. It fits perfectly with this site’s mission and attitude.

I thought the review was fair and accurate. I sympathize with the “Cons” that Ben listed for the book. They all seem to add up to, “I want to know how to do even more with Magento.” And as I wrote the book, I had to restrain myself from adding too much material. I constantly had to ask, “Where do I draw the line on what to include?”

This is a challenge that many technical authors face. In a small way, when you open your Magento store, and you are writing descriptions for the products in you store, you will face this same challenge. Which details about your products should you include, and which should you leave out? The answer for me has always been this:

Pick a mission for what you’re writing. Include everything the reader needs to know to accomplish the mission. Once you’ve accomplished that, add only those details that are insanely useful and clearly valuable.

In my case, the book’s mission was to enable a new Magento user to create and operate a functioning online store. When you’re writing for your Magento store, the mission for your product descriptions might be to convey the uniqueness of a product, or the usefulness of a service, or the excitement of an event. In any case, once your writing has accomplished its mission, stop there and urge the reader to take action.

The publisher and I have received comments from readers who want to go beyond the basics, and who liked the user-friendly approach of the Magento Beginner’s Guide. The readers want us to use the same approach in an intermediate level book. We are looking into this now.

And on that note, I urge you to take these actions:

1. In the spirit of getting the most for your money, check out the sample chapter from my book that the publisher put on their website: http://www.packtpub.com/files/magento-sample-chapter-3-categories-and-attributes.pdf. Also, the publisher extracted a section from one of the chapters and published it on their website as an article: http://www.packtpub.com/article/creating-tax-rules-in-magento.

2. Whether you buy the book or not, consider taking greater control of your financial future by opening a Magento store. If you have a product or service to sell, even on a part-time basis, Magento can be a powerful tool for your success.

Good luck, and please post comments here or on my blog to share your Magento success stories!

William Rice
http://williamriceinc.blogspot.com/

By: David

David — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:34:59 +0000

Can I have your copy of the book if you are done w/ it. I’m interested in updating my ecommerce store, but am unsure of which shopping cart software to use. If I had a book on it… it would really help. Email me if your willing to give it away… I’ll pay for shipping.