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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