Magento a latest and new buzz in e-commerce industry stay tuned(It's main post remain posts will be Magento 1.1 and further)

What exactly a magento is:

               it's an e commerce standard for performing all the task a e-commerce site may need, it's simple you can add custom HTML contents in non intrusive manner, without modifying magento template,

what are the overall things that we need to know about magento

* how to handle magento layouts.

*accessing layout xml files.

*Bolcks & templetes.

*how its can be a alternative to widgets.

you can add third extensions like 

*Google analytics.

*Reinvigorate.

*Crezy egg.

 though about later two i dn't know much about.

Going to the basics of magent.

-It has some app code directories.

-a structure and creation of magento module.

-Enent observer.

-logging.

Two be a Magento expert you have to Disable the cache

 which you can do using # Admin panel->System->Cache Management->Select all->Action: Disable->Submit

 

1.App code directory which is something a functional module for Product, Category, Customer, Payment

 app/data/core

2.Provided by third party available through magento connect built in function, which is package manager.

app/data/community

3.It's somethong which is used to add bespoke module(bespoke i don't know)

app/data/local

4.Another important thing is module name-space

for say app/code/local/SmashingMagazine 

Files are case sensitive.

Structure

app

 -code

   -local

     -SmashingMagazine

       -log product update

         -etc

           -config.xml

         -etc

     -log product update

-SmashingMagazine

 -local

 -code

app