Packt is pleased to announce Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook, a new book that helps Magento developers solve real-world Magento sales problems with the help of simple and effective recipes. Written by William Rice, this book is part of Packt’s Cookbook series containing recipes with a carefully organized sequence of instructions that helps completing tasks efficiently.

Magento is an Open Source, e-commerce web application that was created by Varien, and built on components of the Zend Framework. Magento is the hottest and most powerful e-commerce software and has gained popularity in a short period of time. Users can control the look, content and functionality of their e-commerce web site with the help of Magento’s powerful theming engine.

Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook will help developers increase revenue on their Magento websites by implementing proven sales tactics. It includes straightforward instructions for implementation and customization of the default Magento storefront. Readers will also learn about Magento’s directory structure which will help their store grow in scope and sophistication.

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Is Joomla the Best Choice for Your New Ecommerce Website? Joomla has always been known as one of the best content management systems available. However, is it the best option as an ecommerce solution? There are many viable alternatives such as Wordpress, Drupal, and Magento, but how to they stack up? When most people think about Joomla and ecommerce, they automatically think about VirtueMart. However, there are several other options available to Joomla users. Maybe an option like OpenFreeway or iJoomla Digistore is better suited to fit your needs.

A few years ago, I had developed an online store for a buddy of mine using osCommerce. I had hoped to use Joomla! or Drupal for the site but at the time wasn’t satisfied with the shopping cart extensions or modules that were available for either CMS. Shortly after developing that site a new eCommerce module for Drupal became available called Ubercart. I’ve never had taken on the task of building another online store (it was a lot of work) but I’ve always kept my eye on Ubercart just to stay informed.

Ryan Szrama who has been the project lead of Ubercart from its beginning posted yesterday that Ubercart will fork into Drupal Commerce. At this time it is now known what will become of Ubercart. Ryan writes:

A rose by any other name is still a rose, and Ubercore by any other name is still the best thing to happen for Drupal based e-commerce since the advent of Ubercart. For at least the foreseeable future, Ubercore will continue as Drupal Commerce, managed similarly to Drupal itself. We’ll be working our tails off to make sure e-commerce on Drupal 7 shows just how awesome having fields in core can be.

As often happens in open source, the trademark owner and some of Ubercart’s developers are in disagreement with the direction Ubercart should take in new development. Luckily, for Ryan and the developers of the new project, Ubercart is under the open source GPL license which allows them to use all of source code for Drupal Commerce. This should be an interesting story to follow in the world of open source CMS.

There are very few shopping carts or ecommerce platforms that I’m willing to talk about on a blog for content management systems. For whatever reason, I have always had interest in the Magento Ecommerce platform. The following is a video on the features included in the Magento Enterprise Edition 1.6.

concrete5 CMS recently announced GA of their first eCommerce add-on — coreCommerce. With SMBs in mind, concrete5 is putting this low-priced offer on the market and giving folks yet another option of selling their goodies online. Some of the feedback was not quite as positive as one would hope for. For example, there’s no recurring/membership [...]

WordPress.TV: Shayne Sanderson of S-Tastic Designs talks about integrating WordPress MU [Multi-User] and the WP E-Commerce plugin from Instinct Entertainment. He covers the features and benefits of using WP E-Commerce with WPMU, gives a demo and overview of the process, and takes questions from the audience. [Source]