MageBridge Mobile

MageBridge Mobile

MageBridge Mobile

Introduction to MageBridge

• Bridge between Joomla! & Magento– Magento = e-commerce

– Joomla! = blog, FAQ, gallery, forum,

• Yireo– Home of MageBridge ...

– ... and many other extensions• Vm2Mage• DeleteAnyOrder• GoogleTranslate• reCAPTCHA

MageBridge Mobile

Use the best application for each purpose

• Magento– E-commerce: Catalog, cart, promotions

– Office: CRM, ERP, shipment tracking

– Scalable e-commerce (enterprise, clustering, etc)

• Joomla!– Sales: Blog, news, teasers, suggestions

– Support: FAQ, manuals, forum

– Experience: Customer testimonials, quotes,

social media, podcasts, videos

MageBridge Mobile

Why mobile & e-commerce?

• Everybody has a mobile device,

and everybody is a potential customer

MageBridge Mobile

App or web?

• App– App downloaded by customer

– Excellent performance

• Web– No app required

– Easily customizable

– Integration with social media

MageBridge Mobile

Benefits of MageBridge Mobile

• Content is very important– Blog

– FAQ

– Photo gallery

• Easier with Joomla!– Menu-management

– Webdesign / programming

– More CMS-extensions

MageBridge Mobile

Dual theming (Joomla! + Magento)

• Magento theme “magebridge_mobile”– Optimized for speed

– No ProtoType needed on category-pages and CMS-pages

• Joomla! template “magebridge_mobile”– Optimized for usability

– jQuery Mobile

MageBridge Mobile

jQuery Mobile

• Look & feel of mobile app– Sliding effects, touch-effects, scrollers

• Performance– 12k worth of JavaScript (compared to 240k ProtoType)

• Usability– Large buttons

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MageBridge Mobile: Challenges

• Speed– Minimal bandwidth (optimized theme)

– Optimal caching (MageBridge Caching)

• JavaScript-usage– Get rid of ProtoType and replace it with jQuery

– Alternatives for checkout, image-zoom, form-checks

• Styling– Different devices need different layouts

MageBridge Mobile

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