The topic “The solution for the printing website” always so hot. And is one of the top technology company for web design and service. There are hundreds of questions every day. We synthesized and select a question that many people best care. That is the topic: What should the business use solution for the print industry?

In recent years, the print industry is a strong development. Seeing the potential and the big need from customers, CMSmart was released many products with many the different platforms for this field, example: Magento Printmart Solution, WordPress Printstore, Magento 2 Marketplace Solution, Joomla Virtuemart Responsive Printing...In the world, the business was using many different solutions. It depends on the purpose of your development strategy. And today, CMSmart will the analysis 3 solutions were the most commonly used. Let's follow the below post.

1. Printing website with Magento Platform.

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Magento is the first solution mentioned in “The solution for the printing website”. Due to Magento considered a king of the e-commerce shopping cart. According to research made by BuiltWith. The number of websites using Magento from 2016 to 2017 increased by over 48000. And the fact showed Magento platform used the most in e-commerce. Of course in the printing field, too. So many website design masters choosing this platform to website building. Although it is so powerful and intelligent still exist a few small limitations. there are some minor limitations.

Advantages

  • Magento built dedicated to e-commerce.

The popularity of Wordpress is a thing that hasn't must discussion. But you can't use it to build a business website, although Wordpress offer plugins. Meaning, using it as an accordant choose for online business with high volume and so many other things.

  • Mobile-Friendly Configuration

The smartphone is extremely popular and Magento shopping carts are developed responsively. Making them seamlessly viewable on tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices. This accommodates a consumer shopping trend.

  • Easy Third-party Integrations

Connect your e-commerce experience with eBay, Paypal, Mail Chimp, Google Shopping, QuickBooks, and more. The platform also allows shop owners to add Google Analytics, other such third-party integrations to their site to aid in data analysis.

  • Built-in Upsells and Cross-sells

With Magento, you can add prompts to browse related options on the product in an easy way. Check out pages, enhancing user experience and increasing sales potential. Similar product cross-sells and shows relevant accessories, and more.

  • Multiple store management possible

Before the advent of this platform, running and managing multiple stores were practically impossible and unbelievably inconvenient. However, with Magento solved that so easily just through a single administrative panel. Special, most e-commerce websites can now easily have stores in multiple languages. As security is a major prerequisite for an e-commerce website, this platform provides that as well, and hence worth mentioning here. Hackers will not be able to steal your data easily, and even if a hacker tries to do something, you can do something about it.

There are many other powerful points that I can't list in here. You can refer my product to see powerful of Magento with e-commerce. LINK DEMO. 

Disadvantage

  • Magento could be expensive with a small store.

Because the costs that you will normally run to are ongoing maintenance costs, updates, changes to functionalities, plug-in software, keeping the core code, etc. Costs will also add up when you need to make additions to your website, even if it is a small plugin. However, to solve this issue, you can look for the promotion programs from reputation companies of website development. Such as CMSmart.

  • Resource Intensive

It is true the platform is scalable and robust, but that also makes it bulky and resource hungry. It needs heavy servers, which also makes it slow. However, this would be worth the investments (resources, money and time) if you are planning a huge store.

2. Printing website with WordPress Platform.

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Advantages

The solution for the printing website”, WordPress is the second name mentioned. Let’s find out detail about this platform. There are many printing companies has chosen WordPress to build their website because the powerful Functions that it brought. And the super products " Wordpress Printstore" was using so much. LINK DEMO. 

  • Wordpress provides a friendly platform with the user in setup, using and developing without knowing too much for PHP, other program languages.
  • WordPress offers blogs series with a different layout. At there, you can custom everything according to your favorite.
  • Custom Menus provided in Wordpress more than easy and effective
  • Powerful Back-end, content update at anywhere and you can add any information then.
  • You can easy chooses an interface for your blog from an unlimited number of interface available for Wordpress. 
  • This is so huge advantage, one of a kind -  abundant Wordpress plugin library available. It makes your work easier and more efficient.
  • The community advantage that Wordpress bring for users is so large. You can learn tips and tricks for Wordpress from others.
  • Wordpress provides for you so the advantage of SEO through the plugin, Helping your content get better ranking on the search results table of tools like Google.
  • There are available interface package, massive theme system.
  • Easy to Develop for programmers. If you are a knowledge person about website making.
  • HTML, CSS, PHP can easily expand your Wordpress website with lots of extremely useful features.
  • As of this moment, WordPress supported 52 languages, including Vietnamese, help everyone easy setup, using and admin without difficult in the languages.

Disadvantage

  • This first disadvantage that we have to mention is security. Due to WordPress is open source so hackers can easily find the gap, then website hacking incident.

  • WordPress is just suitable for small website design. If design an e-commerce website or a website for a large organization, WordPress is not as standard as the Magento Platform.

  • WordPress update system regularly. And it's only good for it and not really good for you. It can harm your website.

  • Setup a website by WordPress so simple, easy but to change it, you need to have a certain level. And it's hard to find a professional WordPress due to the website designer WordPress are not professional programmers. 

3. Printing website with Joomla Platform

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Advantage

  • The first advantage to mention is easy to use. Indeep with Joomla, you only need a several dozen minutes to create a complete website with so many features, such as the gallery, video, music, shopping cart, forum... Because ease of use so Joomla is used so many to built website design from small to medium size. And LINK DEMO
  • The interface of Joomla so beautiful, it was provided by many companies both free and commercial. There is a beautiful free theme shared on the internet help you easily search and download.
  • Professional manage interface.
  • Can customize a variety of website layout in different directions, such as the blog, movies, sales, e-commerce...
  • Joomla has a huge Virtuemart extensions library programmed by the developers all over the world. mostly of free, help you a lot of options to expand the functionality of your website.  
  • Easily find and fix the mistake.
  • The page loading speed is relatively fast
  • The coder easy intervenes in the system to help customize the website.
  • Can save large post number but don't reduce loading speed slow of the page.

Disadvantages of Joomla

  • Joomla’s source code relatively large, resulting in more system resources than Drupal during use.

  • Having multiple extensions is an advantage and it is also a disadvantage. The extensions are written by many different webs design programmers lead to potential security errors in those extensions (however, there are firewall solutions to overcome these disadvantages, (paid). If you are a new user, you may be confused about choosing extensions for your website.

Finally, the solution choice for your website will depend on many matters, maybe the business goal, scale of the website... I hope after referring to the article "The solution for the printing website" you have the answer for yourself. If you have any difficulties, please write your feedback here. It's will be solved in a day. 

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