2. MageBridge Mobile
Introduction to MageBridge
• Bridge between Joomla! & Magento
– Magento = e-commerce
– Joomla! = blog, FAQ, gallery, forum,
• Yireo
– Home of MageBridge ...
– ... and many other extensions
• Vm2Mage
• DeleteAnyOrder
• GoogleTranslate
• reCAPTCHA
3. MageBridge Mobile
Use the best application for each purpose
• Magento
– E-commerce: Catalog, cart, promotions
– Office: CRM, ERP, shipment tracking
– Scalable e-commerce (enterprise, clustering, etc)
• Joomla!
– Sales: Blog, news, teasers, suggestions
– Support: FAQ, manuals, forum
– Experience: Customer testimonials, quotes,
social media, podcasts, videos
4. MageBridge Mobile
Why mobile & e-commerce?
• Everybody has a mobile device,
and everybody is a potential customer
5. MageBridge Mobile
App or web?
• App
– App downloaded by customer
– Excellent performance
• Web
– No app required
– Easily customizable
– Integration with social media
6. MageBridge Mobile
Benefits of MageBridge Mobile
• Content is very important
– Blog
– FAQ
– Photo gallery
• Easier with Joomla!
– Menu-management
– Webdesign / programming
– More CMS-extensions
7. MageBridge Mobile
Dual theming (Joomla! + Magento)
• Magento theme “magebridge_mobile”
– Optimized for speed
– No ProtoType needed on category-pages and CMS-pages
• Joomla! template “magebridge_mobile”
– Optimized for usability
– jQuery Mobile
8. MageBridge Mobile
jQuery Mobile
• Look & feel of mobile app
– Sliding effects, touch-effects, scrollers
• Performance
– 12k worth of JavaScript (compared to 240k ProtoType)
• Usability
– Large buttons
9. MageBridge Mobile
MageBridge Mobile: Challenges
• Speed
– Minimal bandwidth (optimized theme)
– Optimal caching (MageBridge Caching)
• JavaScript-usage
– Get rid of ProtoType and replace it with jQuery
– Alternatives for checkout, image-zoom, form-checks
• Styling
– Different devices need different layouts
