Electronics commerce or e-commerce web design as popularly known is a way of making e-business utilizing electronic facilities like the internet. The advent of new technologies has given new dimensions to the trade and commerce world. The interaction between the producer, retailer and the consumer has become effective and faster as never before. The transfer of money and placing of orders has become a child’s play. World Wide Web has revolutionised the whole idea of business and commercial activities. Even people sitting at homes can go for such type of commercial activities. It has created a virtual world for real business.

The open-source web application by the name of Magento was launched in 2008. Based on the Zend Frameworks, produced by Varien, Magento came into existence. The owner of Magento previously worked for osCommerce. Later built Magento for the same purpose and that is to provide online e-commerce solutions. The development of Magento started in 2007 and by August 2007 the “public beta version” was made public followed by the full fledged launching of Magento on 31 March 2008.

There exists a paid version of Magento by the name of Magento Enterprise Edition which was initiated on 15 April 2009 which even provides service agreements. The availability of Magento also exists under Open Software License 3.0 while some parts of the version 1.1.7 are available under Academic Free License 3.0.
The administration area of the Magento installations provides the facility of supporting modules which are accessible through web based interfaces. The uploading of modules by the community members are possible and are made available by Magento team once they confirm it. The availability of the module key on module- page enables the installation of the modules into web related interface.

The official website of the Magento is the Magento connect as it helps to connect Magento the whole world through World Wide Web. The modules on Magento connect are categorised into three different categories and they are as the following:

• Core Modules
• Community Modules
• Commercial Modules

The installations of the community and core modules can be done easily with the help of administration area. The commercial modules are bit different from the others. They provide information about pricing and also links to websites external to Magento connect. The expansion of this platform saw the release of worth expansions for Magento by many dedicated providers.

According to the theories of the eminent economists the e-commerce shop world would lead the world in terms of pricing competitions and business trends. Ecommerce have immense power and ability to gather information about various things around the world. It has become much easier on the part of the producers to reach the consumers anywhere in the world easily.

Magento is just en-cashing on this whole idea. Providing online e-commerce or e-business solutions, Magento is thriving on the development of this whole cyberspace which perhaps today reaches every community on this planet and expanding its business.