Magento platform with Ready Made Template - Security and Ease of Design Modification

Just wondering if any of you have experience in Magento platform.

What are the issues at the moment re: security? speed? admin interface?
What's its advantage/disadvantage over OScommerce or Zen?

I've seen a nice template from template monster, but, the logo is on the right hand side of the header. Is it easy to move the logo from the right hand side to the left with a ready made template?


Hope someone can clear this one for me.

Thanks.

 

hi, here is the complete diff between Magneto, OSCommerce and Zen cart

Magento
Website: magentocommerce.com
Magento has just come out of beta to become the best new open source shopping cart system. The coding is based on the latest PHP 5 object oriented coding standards, making it clean and easy to work with. Out of the box it supports all of the features and goodies you would ever need from a shopping cart.

Advantages
- Out of the box it has the most features such as Google Checkout, Order editing, Product import/export, and way to many more to list here
- Has the cleanest coding of all of the shopping carts reviewed
- Has an excellent templating system making it easy to upgrade

Disadvantages
- It is the newest shopping cart so it has not been tested as much as the others for bugs. But they have designed it so that patches are easy to install.
- BIGGIE - Significant cost to host the platform and get decent performance. Magento is unusable in the shared hosting environment ($10/month type packages). It requires about $25+/month to host because you need a semi-dedicated VPS server. The only company we have found to have decent loading speeds while not costing $100/month is Crucial Web Hosting (A Magento partner). There hosting plan is $25/month.

Here is a website using Magento:
theclimbingshop.com/shop/

Zen Cart - The Art of E-commerce
website: zen-cart.com
Zen Cart has a very nice wide array of features based on Oscommerce but has gone its own path. You can not install contributions directly from the Oscommerce web site onto Zen Cart. Some of the nice features include product attributes managers, template system, html editor for regular web page contents, built in coupon code system, ability to select what credit cards you accept, and more. An issue with Zen Cart right now is the Easy Populate contribution which would let you import products from an Excel sheet does not work yet. So if you need this feature we recommend the other shopping carts.

Advantages
- No licensing fees
- Stable
- Many contributions from Oscommerce already installed
- Nicer looking default designs pre-installed

Disadvantages
- not possible to use Oscommerce contributions, they must be converted to Zen Cart
- Admin interface is a little messy in certain areas because there are so many contributions installed

OsCommerce

on the above website you will find all the details abour OsCommerce

blog.edynamo.com/tag/oscommerce-advantages

I hope this info will be helpful

Thank You

 

Main issue for my magento is speed. Specialist says hosting can be more then 300 Mb guaranteed resources and VSP/VDS. magento is very server resourses hungry. On my shares hosting it loads 5-6 sec per page.

I was using hand made php,ssi engines for my small sites, but than they begun to grow i faced with support problem. So i decided to use magento for large product catalogs. And made custom template mod, rewritten special for affilate needs.

Based on magento 1.3.2

-added multi-level drop down menu fro product categories
-fixed product photos quality (magento php jpeg double-commpression)
-added tabbed menus for product page
-made swap images gallery
-made custom attributes like weight, usage, cons, procs, tech description etc
-speed up magento (loads x3 faster than initial intallation on shared hosting)
-added "feature items' module
-added wysiwyg editor to backend

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