Magento Inspiration

Here’s a very nice Magento based online store: www.giro.com which was featured yesterday on the Magento blog as part of a great series of posts. If you’re designing a Magento theme or deploying a Magento based Ecommerce and you’re in need of some inspiration, then you should definitely browse through the live stores featured there.

About the Giro website, I particularly like the functionality of the header. It’s very consistent, functional, and non-intrusive at the same time. To see it in action, mouse over “account”, “compare”, “shopping cart”, and the top category items. The interactivity effect is simple yet effective. Then click on the search icon and the globe icon – it follows the same idea.

I also like the category pages – here’s one for example:

www.giro.com/us_en/products/goggles.html

Overall it’s a nice site that does a great job without going too far in customizing Magento which is very important to keep the development budget within reason .

Other articles about Magento and about getting inspired:

• 4 unusual ways to get inspiration
• The ultimate Magento template