SEO-Mix

Magento was only released last March, but already has been downloaded over 525,000 times. In that short time, Magento has become the preferred choice for ecommerce development for many web designers working with Open Source solutions. Why are so many flocking to Magento, and is the hype really justified by the functionality? Magento has the professional, Web 2.0 look many designers are looking for, and that is surely one of the main reasons for its popularity. The closest approximation to the Magento user experience that I can site as an example is amazon.com, which is really quite amazing coming from an Open Source, freely available software.