We recently started building a shopping cart for a candy company and had initially decided to go with ZenCart. I have used ZenCart many times, but usually just purchased a template and did a little bit of customization and hit the road running.
This time however, there was not a premade template that would even come close to what was needed for the site. So coincidentally speaking with a friend, rechols, he mentioned Magento. I had never heard of it before so I decided to check it out.
I was immediately impressed with the tutorials on creating templates on their site. It is very thorough and is a great start on how to create, modify and use their templating system. Their system is well thought out, but it is still pretty complicated.
We will see how converting my HTML template over to Magento works out. Layout is definitely NOT my thing. So I am not expecting it to go too well! I have documentation to follow, so if it doesn’t turn out right it is my fault!
I love magento as well. It’s my newest favorite.