Author: Nam Chi Van

I'm Nam-Chi Van and I love web design.

Online shopping has become a more convenient way to purchase goods. People can now buy just about anything by the click of their finger. As this trend continues to rapidly increase, many retailers are beginning to see the benefit of eCommerce and how this marketing strategy can help their business tremendously.

There are many solutions on creating a well-done online shop with a handful of open-source eCommerce web applications. A popular platform that a great majority of retailers are using today is Magento.

The uprising of Magento, an open-source eCommerce web application, is growing larger as more companies are using the interface to display their products and manage their online store. Here is a collection of outstanding websites that use Magento as their e-store managing system.

1. Pokkadots

Specialties: Baby clothing, toys, bedding and accessories

Pokkadots tends to moms and dads that are looking to purchase items for their newly born child or oh-so-cute toddler. They give off a very playful, yet reliable vibe with the different hues of blue that are used throughout the site. With over 400+ baby products, Pokkadots displays their products through categories, price and alphabetically. Cofa Media did a wonderful job in developing this Magento website.

Web: http://www.pokkadots.com/

2. Scotch & Soda

Specialties: Clothing and accessories

Straight from Amsterdam comes a well respected clothing brand, Scotch & Soda. Their minimalistic black and white layout enhances the appeal of their apparel. The product images are bold and when hovered over, the information and pricing appears which makes user interaction throughout the pages fun and engaging.

Web: http://webstore.scotch-soda.com/

3. Homedics

Specialties: Massage, wellness, beauty, and sleeping products

Homedics clean design and layout gives off a nice relaxed feeling with it's blue, subtle background and gets straight to the point that they have great products to sell. They also have their top selling products advertised on the home page along with a handful of new products for the upcoming season. Homedics delivers an easy-to-navigate eCommerce site.

Web: http://www.homedics.com/

4. Garden of Fashion

Specialties: Men and Women apparel

Netherland's "No. 1 Fashion Guide", Garden of Fashion, shows off their collection of products with an elegant yet trendy design. There are a list of brands that Garden of Fashion offers on the front page giving the shopper a better idea of what kind of apparel they carry along with a few new arrival and sale items. When browsing the store, there are options of checking/unchecking the brands and even colors that you want to populate. This is a useful function that creates great user experience.

Web: http://www.gardenoffashion.nl/

5. Dye

Specialties: Paintball guns and gear

Dye's dark online shopping store displays their products in categories making it easy to find a certain item. They give the shopper options of how the products are displayed. The grid view is straight to the point with the name, image and price of the products where as the list view lists the products with the description. This is a cool feature because it customizes the way one likes to shop online.

Web: http://shop.dyepaintball.com/

6. Candy Direct

Specialties: Candies

Imagine being a kid walking into a gigantic candy store picking up any type of candy you wished for. Candy Direct makes that possible by being an eCommerce site for strictly candies. This vibrant chromatic color scheme helps emphasize their products by being as colorful as the candies they are selling. Candy Direct gives you the option of browsing by category, brand, bulk, type, color, flavor, occasion, shape, size and price.

Web: http://www.candydirect.com/

7. Nkdman

Specialties: Skin care, body fragrances, hair and shaving products

Nkdman delivers a clean modern web design that uses only a few colors to show their products. They display items with a nice and uncluttered layout, making it easy for the shopper to skim through products page by page. Nkdman's black and red color scheme works well with their company branding and simplistic logo.

Web: http://www.nkdman.co.uk/

8. Street Belt

Specialties: Belts and accessories

This street styled website offers a selection of belts and accessories. Street Belt's texturized brick background and grayscale theme creates a "hip" grunge feeling to their products.

Web: http://shop.streetbelt.ch/

9. Deborah Cavenaugh

Specialties: Art, Jewelry, Home & Gift

Deborah Cavenaugh uses hand illustrated design elements and background to create her beautiful Magento based site. Her blog styled site shows off her art and collection of products that she offers. Cavenaugh's site is one of the more unique eCommerce stores around the web.

Web: http://deborahcavenaugh.com/

10. Zumiez

Specialties: Skate, Snow, Shoes, Clothing

Zumiez uses Magento to manage their huge amount of skating goods and products. The simplex theme gives focus on the deals and new products from large branded companies. A cool feature that Zumiez.com has is the image interactivity that they give the shopper when the shopper chooses a specific category.

Web: http://www.zumiez.com/

Anita

These examples look nice. Ours is a pile of, well, you know. I don't see examples of situations where variations of a product also entails variations in weight. This is a big problem for us that Magento doesn't seem to address. Also, the order fulfillment side of Magento is terrible.

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