So I’m doing a client site for the first time using the Magento eCommerce CMS and it’s very confusing. For those who have no knowledge of web programming, pretty much every website you browse is one big sheet of code. There are many different types, javascript, php, asp, html, etc and usually many different types of code are used on each page to serve a different purpose. You can usually click on a web page, go to view source and read through the code to get at the very least, a vague idea of what the code is doing. If the website was constructed by a good programmer, there should be comments in the code noting what it’s function is.
Back to Magento, there are no pages. Magento ultimately assembles pages by pulling a bunch of code together from hard to find CSS files and from the database. As far as opening up single pages, making your changes and then saving the page, it’s not that easy. For example, I’m trying to change a few images on the main page. The problem is there is no actual main page to edit. When I searched through my entire installation of magento for what the hell is calling my image (image01.png), I came across this:
Don’t get me wrong, Magento has a lot of nice features but if you like doing things outside of the CMS and have total control over what you are working on, then Magento isn’t the greatest option. As you can see, this is already a lot of work to change 1 image.
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