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In this article we talk about the three free CMS to implement online shops (Oscommerce, Prestashop, Magento), CMS to develop online shops designs. Magento: We'd like to highlight the installation process, if you have some experience in managing websites it might be easy for you to manage the panel control. However, if you or your client are not very used to this, it might be a bit difficult to manage this. Is not a platform for new users, but if you have...

Magento is the referent CMS in the  e-commerce market.  It is the leader platform for small and medium companies as well as multinationals. It is an open source platform. It is based on a versatile framework and an ecosystem of modules without possible comparison with other alternatives. Magento arquitecture is based on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) and it uses a PHP development framework called Zend. These components are the fundamentals for a strong solution which offers flexibility and versatility. There...

Last December, magento launched a new version of DevDocs. This has a better usability and short-cuts have been added to find the most important documentation in an easier way. Magento take into account the developer needs shared on GitHub, Twitter, feedback emails, etc. The main points are as follow: Simplified home page with shortcuts to improve usability Informacion and publications Nicer look and feel List of the most important contributors Resources for the community (presentations, posts, external links...

78% of Spanish e-Commerce experts consider that digital industry has not enough support from the administration, although 89% of them consider it a must for the country economy development. However, 67% of professionals believe there is a strong national eCommerce industry, also proven by official numbers. During 2016, product and service transactions summed up to 24.185 milions of euros, 20.8%  more than the previous year. In this context, eShow has launched a study "I Estudio Industra Digial: la Visión del Sector",...

On the 7th of November it will take place, this will be the 4th time in Spain, a new Meet Magento edition. This is an evenet specially thought for Magento community members, and will be located at Goya Theater, in Madrid city centre. It will be opened to all those online shop users and developers specialized in this ecommerce platform. Meet Magento is organized by Interactv4, one of the most relevant companies on this market. In this occasion, there will be...

Last 4th and 5th of November we had the chance to contribute directly on Magento2 development process. As partners of Onestic, experts in online high performance shops, we counted with interactiv4 support and coordination when working on the Magento2 core development. Hand to hand with other 30 developers, we worked on a task list proposed by a Magento community member with the objective to solve some bugs. The goal within these days was to face the tasks and do our...

Magento 2 is a reality.From its launch in November 2015 there have been stability enhancements and although there has not been a significant change on functionalities from a user point of view, it has been a great move forward for the online shop itself (code structure). However moving from version 1 to version 2 it's not that easy. Version 1 of Magento has been running for 10 years and was born as an open source software. Anyone (with minimum code knowledge) could download...

A UX designers needs different tools to develop the different phases of UX strategy, from investigation to design, as well as prototype and presentations. If you work on a PC, you usually know the Sketch is the popular one, offering vectorial designs and becoming a standard for the industry, although this is only available on Mac OS. Now, Adobe have developed a visually similar tool to compete with Sketch which is Adobe Xd. When opening Adobe Xd, the first impression is the interface...