If you have an eCommerce site or are planning on starting one, odds are you’ve heard of Magento, and with good reason. Magento is by far, the most popular eCommerce platform with more than 240,000 sites using it for their online stores.
But you may be wondering why Magento is considered one of the best platforms available and why you should consider it for your online store.
First and foremost, one of the biggest benefits of using the Magento platform is that it is open-source. That means…
Since Magento is open-source, meaning that you get full access to all of the code, you can customize your website in almost any way you can imagine. You won’t be stuck with a finite list of templates or themes or shopping cart options. You are able to take any theme or option and tweak it to your liking.
With most platforms, you aren’t given access to the source code so you may get a lot of options, but you only get the options that platform makes available – and you aren’t able to change them as you please. With Magento, you get to create whatever features you want as long as you have experienced developers who know how to make it happen.
Another benefit of Magento, thanks to its large community of users and the fact that it’s open-source is the wide variety of extensions and plugins available to add to your site. Many developers and businesses have created specialized bits of code to create certain features (like customized banners or menu options or the way an item moves or works when it’s clicked on) – and they’re available for others to use on their sites too. In other words, there’s a huge variety of site features to pick and choose from that will quickly integrate into your website because the code already exists. Not only that, since the code is always open-source, your developers can tweak it and make it completely unique for your site.
Almost all of Magento’s greatest benefits stem from how flexible it is and one of these benefits is scalability. Yes, Magento has quite a few Fortune 500 merchants but it caters to mid and smaller sized businesses too. Whether you sell 5 products, 500 or 5,000 – Magento can scale to your needs. This can be especially helpful for businesses that expect to expand. When the time comes, you’ll have a platform that’s can quickly adapt to your changing needs and grow with you.
Designing a Magento site takes experts to truly take full advantage of everything Magento can do for your business. Unlike do-it-yourself platforms with set templates and options, Magento needs expert developers to craft the code that you need to get the site that you want. All that said, once your site is up and running, Magento sites have very user-friendly administrative and management functions so you can manage your online store in the background, easily and efficiently.
Magento Enterprise is usually suited to larger businesses and comes with the most that Magento has to offer in the way of support.
Magento Community offers just as much flexibility but support would come from the community of developers or your own web developer as opposed to Magento itself. Magento Community is 100% open-source and allows all the flexibility and customizations that Magento is famous for.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Magento platform or want to discuss why it might be the right platform for your eCommerce site, please give us a call or send us an email.
Purpose: : Dextromethorphan (DM) is widely used as a cough-suppressant with an excellent safety profile. Recent studies have demonstrated that DM has a novel anti-oxidant effect as a NADPH oxidase inhibitor. We have previously demonstrated that cones die from oxidative damage in RP. In this study, we tested the effect of systemically administered DM in rd1+/+ mice.
Results: : At P13, after intravenous injection of HDE, rd1+/+ mice treated with IP injections of 40mg/kg of DM had much less fluorescence in the retinal sections compared to those from vehicle-treated mice. At P25 with a stimulus intensity of 30cd-s/m2, mean photopic b-wave amplitudes of rd1+/+ mice treated with IP injections of 40mg/kg of DM were 24.5±4.4µV compared to 15.0±2.5µV in rd1+/+ mice treated with vehicle (p<0.05). At P25, mean cone cell density (cones/0.0529 mm2) was greater at 2 of 4 locations in the retinas of rd1+/+ mice given daily IP injections of 40 mg/kg of DME compared to vehicle-treated rd1+/+ mice (superior: 80.2±6.5 vs 59±3.6 (P<0.01), inferior: 67.6±6.8 vs 37±4.5 (P<0.01), temporal: 50.9±5.3 vs 45.2.±3.2, nasal 50.6±6.8 vs 40.6±6.6).
Conclusions: : Systemic treatment with DM, reduced superoxide radicals in the retina, preserves cone function, and reduces cone death in an animal model of RP.