Preface

This is more than a book, it's a reference guide. The reality is that you have to have the right information exactly when you need it; for that reason, the goal of this book is to cover everything you need to know to manage your store. The first time you read the book, you will be able to understand all the concepts related to managing a Magento store, and then you can use the book as a reference and quickly take a look at its pages every time you need. This book consists of four parts. We’ll get started with the general understanding of what Magento is, why and how we should use it, and whether it is possible and feasible to migrate an old web store to Magento 2. The migration part will only be interesting for those who wish to give their old websites a new life by migrating them to the new platform. We’ll introduce you to the main e-commerce concepts and basic features, and we'll let you play with them so that you can get a taste of how the catalog and content management works. We’ll show you how to tune your store for proper use. Finally, we will get serious and try to turn your sample store into a real web store, and teach you how to run it for real.