Review of Magento: Beginners guide by William Rice

12 February 2010

Now there is certainly no doubting the authors credentials. William Rice has written excellent books on similar topics. I have to say however that I didn't necessarily see Magento as the ideal candidate for a beginners guide. You see, Magento is widely reputed in e-commerce circles as being a cut above many of the others. 

It gets this reputation for the extra power and features it offers the budding e-commerce entrepreneur. But this extra comes at a cost and that cost is complexity, or so I thought. So the big question that I will try to answer is this. Does Magento: Beginners guide by William Rice offer the newcomer to online business a genuine step by step solution to make money online or is this book going to be too hard going for most beginners?

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Taking, borrowing and buying photos

15 February 2010

Every e-commerce web site needs graphics and photos. Many of the my tutorials require you to use images. So here we will cover how to take them, buy them, modify and resize them. And very important for the web make them quick loading.

We will also look at free software for all your web graphics needs.

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