Magento AJAX Cart Preview Extension Version 2
We’ve added some extra functionality and made some major improvements, in this post I’ll cover the new functionality, there is also a YouTube video below with a quick demo of the extension in action, I...
View ArticleThe Importance of the Product Page to an Ecommerce Site
The importance of product pages and their design on an ecommerce site should never be underestimated. They are that final push, the last chance to convince your customer that the product they are...
View ArticleCaching Data in Magento & FirePHP through Zend
Magento have also recently released training material online at http://training.magento.com which is available for free, I would highly recommend it. It’s great for people starting out with Magento or...
View ArticleHow To Safely Upgrade Magento 1.4.1, 1.4.2 + to 1.6.2
These new releases contain either New features, Security updates or just simple irritating bug fixes. Whatever the contents keeping your Magento store up to date is something you should consider very...
View ArticleMagento Imagine 2012 Conference – Overview
The 2012 Magento Imagine conference was held at the fittingly named iMagine Resort in Las Vegas. This annual event sees Magento partners, merchants and developers from all around the globe meeting up...
View ArticleWhy Choose Magento Enterprise?
The latest Magento Enterprise version boasts some great functionality over Magento Community, here’s a quick run down of it’s most interesting features. We have built some of this Enterprise...
View ArticleHow to use CSS3 PIE with Magento
Web developers need to continually keep up to date with the latest developments in HTML and CSS, with CSS3 being the latest on the scene. However only the latest versions of browsers support the new...
View ArticleCommunicating with your Magento store using Soap
Magentos API provides you with the ability to manage your eCommerce stores by providing calls for working with data such as customers, categories, products, and sales orders. It also allows you to...
View ArticleAddressing Mobile Users Needs When Designing an Ecommerce Site
With the rapid growth in mobile technologies it is becoming increasingly important when designing a new ecommerce site to cater for the unique requirements that this new portal to the internet...
View ArticleWhy won’t Magento let me use a non-incrementing primary key?
This one had me stumped for a while so I thought it might be useful to share it with the class… When you create a model in Magento that reads and writes data to a database table, by default, Magento...
View ArticleMagento Frontend Developer Certification Exam: Part 1
The Magento Frontend Developer Exam is a great way to prove your knowledge of Magento, some of my work colleagues were looking for guidance on how to prepare for the exam and simply what it involves. I...
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