Creative Glance just start to provide OpenCart Integration and Customization Services

May 31st, 2010

OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system and its designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

As we all know Magento is a popular ecommerce solution now a day, but the main two disadvantages of Magento is(1) It is so slow (2) Magento is very hard to customize, These two points make people move from Magento to OpenCart.

OpenCart is very easy to customization. And it is also very fast. Another advantages of OpenCart are as follow.

1. Very Faster.
2. Much Easier.
3. Great Scalability
4. Very Affordable.
5. Safe and easy online payment.
6. Non-programmers like anyone can easily understand the code and make their own changes.
7. OpenCart has pretty templates.
8. More standard modules.
9. Shopping Cart Simplicity.
10. B2B and B2C in one eCommerce shop.
11. One Back Office in your language.
12. Affordable.

You can checkout its admin panel and front end Demo at

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=demonstration/demonstration

Contact us for opencart customization and integration.

Wow… Magento Launch Ver. 1.4

February 15th, 2010

Today it was nice start of the day when i seen that magento has launched latest stable version that is 1.4.0.0.  In new version,

* They have provided most awaited WYSIWUG editor with easy static block implementation for CMS and product pages.

* They also have now support “media” folder browsing to select existing file or upload images from admin panel itself rather then uploading images through FTP.

* From the first use of this latest version, I feel lots of speed improvement in website loading. Now they have started supporting indexing

There are other lots of changes they have made like

  • Implemented 3D Secure credit card validation (Visa and Mastercard)
  • Full reimplementation of PayPal modules, includes lot of new functionality and numerous bugfixes
  • Full review of frontend themes, introduced design cross-package fallback and the base/default theme. Includes SEO and accessibility enhancements. Changes are oriented to dramatically reduce themes maintenance.
  • Added ability to define arbitrary cache backends
  • Optimized performance of sales reports, added new sales report types
  • Added image/media uploader/browser, that can browse entire media folder
  • Optimized performance of search indexer
  • Made order processing workflow more informative and severe
  • Reimplemented 404 and report pages, introduced 503 page, specifically for maintenance purposes
  • Improved javascript files merging, added CSS files merging
  • Added Widgets functionality, added several widgets out of the box
  • Added Custom Variables functionality
  • Added lot of new System Configuration options
  • Improved order placement reliability
  • Added WYSIWYG for CMS and Catalog
  • Optimized cache initialization during startup
  • Optimized export from grids in admin area
  • Improved tax and discount totals calculation
  • Replaced admin notification flash popup into a simple HTML overlay
  • Implemented product and category URLs per store view
  • Added ability to configure entry point using virtualhost environment configuration, rather than creating another physical entry point
  • Optimized simple product view without custom options

Now we are very excited to start working on this latest version. we shortly add our latest portfolio website in magento 1.4 version.

Why to choose Magento Commerce for ecommerce website?

December 16th, 2009

Since new technologies arrives to the internet market, Online ecommerce store owner moving towards to change their ecommerce store with new look and functionalities. There are many open source are available to start ecommerce website. Among them Magento is one the top rated open source for ecommerce store setup. The reasons are its vast set of functionality and reach administrator control over the store. Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of an online store

Here is the list of functionality that magento have

  1. Analytics and Reporting
    • Integrated with Google Analytics
    • Admin Dashboard for Report Overview
    • Sales Report
    • Tax Report
    • Best Viewed Products Report
    • Best Purchased Products Report
    • Low Stock Report
    • Coupon Usage Report
    • Total Sales Invoiced
    • Total Sales Refunded
    • Best Customers Report by Total and Number Orders
  2. Catalog Browsing Reporting
    • Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products
    • Static Block tool to create category landing pages
    • Configurable search with auto-suggested terms
    • Recently viewed products
    • Product comparisons
    • Cross-sells, Up-sells and Related Items
    • Popular Search Terms Cloud
    • Filter by Product Tags
    • Product Reviews
    • Product listing in grid or list format
    • Breadcrumbs

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