Any Magento "Designers/Integrators" here?
 

Lmk if you have experience with this and leave some contact info and any portfolio you might have

-JDL

Any (good) results?
We're taking on clients for Magento.

Went with another Cart Software


(old thread btw ) :warning:1orglaugh:pimp:):Oh crap:upsidedow:disgust:mad:

Hi Juicy,

What cart did you go with?

On our perfumestore we had Osc and am now going with magento, coders are working now.

I know it can be a resource hog but the features, etc are pretty nice..

Very wise decision. Magneto is a clusterfuck of poorly written code and terrible use of queries.

What about Prestashop - anyone had experience with it?

Except for being a resource hog (get a fast server) - magento is a very good piece of cart software...

They have extensions for everything - a huge community to help with issues, etc.

This will be the first store we have run Magento on and I am very excited.

Magento is winning top awards all around and will surpass most open source out there...

I have looked at this cart a few times and get there email updates.

It is very popular, has a good admin, front end, etc..... It's still pretty new - so I would wait a bit for production level but tons of stores are using it on a day to day basis..

Hey Todd , I went with Xcart. I had a license from 02 and decided to go through that route... Added some custom mods to it and such and still tweaking it as needed. I used it in the past and had a working knowledge already of it ... I tested Magento and for out purposes it was over kill for the product and site at the time.

Magento is overkill for most sites.

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btw I do magento templates :)

JD you do Xcart templates?

We couldn't get it to do more than 6 or so pageviews per second without memcache. Without memcache rendering pages took > 1 sec (increasing significantly with more load). This was on a fairly high-end server that shouldn't have had any problems at all. We ended up using Drupal and x-cart.

I don't know who is giving Magneto awards but I'm betting it's marketing people, not developers.

I tried Magento last year and it shut down my server on HostGator and we tried another big name host and same issue. It is definitely a memory hog for servers. We went with ZenCart since it has been around a long time and pretty simple to use. I have heard some people using Volusion for their stores with good luck.

Someday I will change systems or maybe just have someone do a really nice ZenCart Template for me to make it look nice. But most have wanted an Arm and a Leg to do an adult toy store template. Good Luck with your store

I had someone want this massive Magento based site and it turned out they had ONE single product to sell. Total overkill. Massive headache of a project. But the customer had heard about Magento and there was no convincing them to use anything else.

There are a ton of viable alternatives if you're not running a store with huge warehouse of products for your catalog.

Hostgator? :1orglaugh

We had performance issues on a dedicated server with mysql running on another dedicated box.

Yeah I can work with Xcart :)

lol yeah I had a similar experience recently...