{"id":11,"date":"2009-02-14T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T21:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2009-04-04T19:15:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T03:15:14","slug":"drupal-and-magento-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/11\/drupal-and-magento-commerce.html","title":{"rendered":"Drupal and Magento Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been using Drupal for a number of projects. It&#8217;s got a steep learning curve, but I like it as a PHP platform. We are now evaluating Magento as a shopping cart solution, and suffering from the huge differences in basic PHP infrastructure. My boss is wicked smart and he thinks Magento will be hot a few years from now.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big issues with Drupal was that it wasn&#8217;t search engine friendly, and we did a ton of work on that. I just started looking at Magento, and this <a title=\"Magento and search engine friendliness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnon.com\/493\/magento-seo.html\">article on Magento SEO<\/a> suggests we have some work to do with Magento as well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see us move to a unified platform that was great for PHP development, and good enough for search engines. We could make some killer user interfaces if we didn&#8217;t have to worry about implementation and maintenance issues (Drupal) or search friendliness (SEO). <a title=\"how smart is google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ozzu.com\/google-forum\/how-smart-google-t29104.html\">Google seems to be getting very smart these days<\/a>. Maybe pretty soon it will be smart enough so we don&#8217;t need any extra SEO consultants. Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been using Drupal for a number of projects. It&#8217;s got a steep learning curve, but I like it as a PHP platform. We are now evaluating Magento as a shopping cart solution, and suffering from the huge differences in basic PHP infrastructure. My boss is wicked smart and he thinks Magento will be hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,4,7,5,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiskowitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}