Creating Website and Store entities

Most store owners who use Magento for the first time will have only one store. In fact, it's quite natural to "get your feet wet" by learning the full power and extent of Magento by building and managing a single Store entity. However, as we pointed out, there can be tremendous power in leveraging Magento's ability to operate multiple stores within a single backend.

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You can contrast Magento's multistore capability with other lesser platforms, in which you have to build each store individually. In these cases, you would have to log into each individual backend to manage your products, orders, and customers. Furthermore, selling the same inventory across multiple stores becomes a considerable synchronization challenge.

Let's begin by revisiting our example Global-Website-Store hierarchy:

• We want to create two Store entities for sportswear and furniture: www.AcmeSportswear.com and  www.AcmeFurniture.com , respectively

• For the sportswear website, we want to...