Magento Development Agency

Magento web development is a broad term used to describe all of the design and development services performed on behalf of a business in building its eCommerce website on the Magento platform. The scale of a web development project can be as simple as changing the font on a website or as complex as a complete website built from scratch.

For moderate to complex development needs, it is essential to engage a team of Magento developers rather than an individual freelancer. Choosing a skilled team ensures you have both the breadth and depth of development experience on the Magento eCommerce platform. Without such a skilled team, you run the risk of paying once for the developer to learn while coding and again when things don’t work out as planned.

Adobe acquired Magento in 2018 and, since that time, has been integrating the eCommerce platform into its Adobe Experience product suite. Currently, Adobe supports Magento Open Source, Adobe Commerce, and Adobe Commerce Cloud. Both Adobe Commerce and Adobe Commerce Cloud are “powered by Magento,” which means they rely on the same base Magento code.  While these platforms all share a common foundation, the differences in native functionality and licensing arrangements make a thorough evaluation for selection important for any online business. For all three of Adobe’s Magento offerings, skilled developers remain essential to handle custom design, system integrations, and unique business requirements. 

As Adobe continues to build out its Experience product suite, we expect greater integration for the Magento platform and an ongoing emphasis on providing a unified, enterprise-grade eCommerce and marketing solution.

Magento is written in PHP - a scripting language created in 1994 by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf. The PHP acronym is derived from the earliest name for this language: Personal Home Page Tools and today is commonly referred to as simply PHP or PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP was designed to be particularly well-suited to web development and can be found in all forms of eCommerce and content websites around the world, including those created in WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.

PHP has a strong developer community that continues to improve the language for faster and more efficient websites. Due to its popularity, finding PHP developers for your Magento website is relatively easy. However, as with any software development services, the quality of the code depends not only on finding skilled developers, but also on their use of development and testing best practices.