The CMS among the most beloved and well-known for the creation of e-commerce sites, has taken a real step forward and with the new version 2.0 has overcome some structural limitations of the platform, making everything simpler and more performant both for those involved in the administration and management of the system and for the final customer of the online store.
But let’s find out what changes from the old version?
These are just some of the improvements we should expect by upgrading to the latest version of Magento. 1. Responsiveness: the most important update of Magento 2.0 is that now the design is perfectly responsive. Your online shop will be so SEO friendly, since Google favors sites with responsive design. 2. Optimized Performance: the new version 2.0 has been optimized and made 20% faster than the previous version, which is a truly remarkable increase in the overall performance of the CMS. 3. Testing: testing has also been improved, in the new version of Magento, it will be much easier to set up automatic tests and developers will be able to perform testing more effectively and fully automated. 4. Native support for PHP 7.0: The newest PHP 7 offers significantly better performance and provides a number of new features useful to developers.
5. UX: All the changes made and features introduced in the new version promise to improve the user experience while making life easier for developers. 6. Security level upgrade: Magento 2.0 will be even more secure as a CMS for selling products, thanks to significant improvements made to the overall security of the system, such as the introduction of server validation. 7. Backend revamp: Strong improvements have also affected the administration panel that allows the user to configure products, options, and manage orders and all other store functions. The administration panel was completely revamped in design, presenting the colors and graphic style of the current Magento site. All controls have been revamped and reorganized for a more intuitive and simple structure. The new version has been specially designed for full compatibility with the most popular platforms.
8. jQuery library: in the new version they focused on jQuery, which was used as the default JavaScript library, easy to use for events, for animation of DOM elements and in HTML pages. 9. Modified directory structure: Magento 2.0. has a new directory structure, which makes it easier to manage layout templates, JavaScript, images, CSS. The new CMS architecture is modular, so that all additional Magento features are installed without ever changing the CORE code, avoiding problems related to future upgrades. Customers, sales, catalog, and checkout are designed to interact with each other, and each module can be easily disabled or replaced. Therefore, there is no need to go to the code base to customize or modify Magento 2.0. 10. Better payment solutions: another big advantage of the new CMS lies in the ability to make more secure payments, in fact, the CMS already has major payment systems integrated, such as Paypal and the very new and promising Braintree and CyberSource.
