Magento has a flexible system to work with products. When you sell, for example, a board game and a computer, the specifications of each product are different. Suppose I want to configure an age for the board game and a screen resolution for the computer. In such cases, these things are covered with attributes and attribute sets.
When you create a product, you have to first select an attribute set (with specific attributes) before entering other data.
Go to the backend and navigate to Catalog | Attributes | Manage Attributes and Catalog | Attributes | Manage Attribute Sets.
We will create some extra attributes and an attribute set on these pages.
In the next steps, we will create extra product attributes that we can use with an attribute set: