Open Source Magento Ecommerce Shopping Cart Site To-do List

 

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Magento is one of the fastest growing Open Source eCommerce web application, simple to configure and customize. And in spite of the fact that it was launched quite recently, it gains more and more popularity among web designers. Magento CMS includes such advanced features as Marketing Promotions and SEO Tools, Mobile Commerce, Catalog-Management Tools and etc. And everyone, who is already using Magento, may customize his/her store with a new theme or template.

Here is the to do list normally for people to use Magento as an ecommerce site, i.e. from  Hosting, Installation to Customization steps:

- Selection of your domain name.
- Selection of your web hosting for Magento.
- Installation of the Magento default (without the sample data products) version with a mysql database.
- Creation of your personal logo made in Photoshop format.
- Customization of the header image.
- Creation of the menu with color customization and image background.
- Customize the header Slogan, and the top links (color, bold….)
- Customize the left box and right box image with Photoshop.
- Footer image creation and link customization, removing the magento information line.
- Add your page layout for home page, customer service and about us.
- Add the keywords for Google optimization.
- Add the shipping account ( Fedex, UPS, DHL….).
- Add the payment system ( Google checkout, Paypal…).
- Link building and SEO to get more than 1000 unique visitors a month.
- Add the Search Engine Friendly URL.
- Customize your admin such as email templates, newsletter template and personal information.