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Manage to-do items in Magento

Manage to-do items in Magento

There’s a new to-do item management module released that makes for an excellent way of keeping an overview of your pending tasks from within your store’s admin. You can assign tasks to team members, comment / take notes and check them as completed from anywhere in the Magento admin screen. ... Read more »

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Magento: Buying or building modules

Make or Buy

Magento: Buying or building modules

Because of the open nature of Magento’s commerce platform, and the fast spread of adoption of the platform there’s a wide range of commercially available modules in the market right now. Examples of module shops are (but are not limited to) AheadWorks, WebshopExtensions and Aitoc, which all feature some interesting modules. This places ... Read more »

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5 highlights of the Magento Enterprise Edition roadmap for 2009 & early 2010

Magento Enterprise Edition roadmap

5 highlights of the Magento Enterprise Edition roadmap for 2009 & early 2010

Magento had a webinar yesterday where the roadmap for the Magento Enterprise Edition for Q3 / Q4 2009, & early 2010 was given. Some very exciting (and much-needed) new features were announced, hot off the presses here are the highlights: A WYSISYG CMS system with a lot more flexibility: including creating widgets, the maintenance of CMS [...]... Read more »

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4 considerations before you download a Magento template

considering Magento templates

4 considerations before you download a Magento template

Great, those Magento template sites providing cheap or even free templates! However, before you start you should be aware of these possible issues: Most, if not all, of the cheap or free templates look a lot like default Magento installations. If that is not what you’re looking for, it will probably take a sizeable chunk of [...]... Read more »

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10 (Magento) front-end development best practices

10 Magento frontend development best practices

10 (Magento) front-end development best practices

Here are 10 best practices for front-end development (in Magento): Understand Magento’s front-end structure and follow conventions. Know how Magento is comprised of modules, know how layout XML creates page layouts and know how html blocks get loaded as defined by the page layouts. It is good to learn Magento’s structure first and then... Read more »

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4 reasons the mobile commerce revolution is lagging

Mobile Commerce Lagging

4 reasons the mobile commerce revolution is lagging

Rumours and predictions around the rise of mobile ecommerce (mcommerce) have been around and increasing for a number of years. The actual growth of mcommerce has lagged behind predictions. A study by Nielsen shows that only 4% of the predicted number of mobile phone users purchased using their mobile phone. This article explores four reasons [...]... Read more »

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8 Reasons to pick Magento

8 reasons for Magento

8 Reasons to pick Magento

PracticalEcommerce.com posted an excellent article on selecting your shopping cart software. In the article eight decision criteria are given for selecting a cart. These points will form the basis for this article as an indication why what you should be looking for in a shopping cart is facilitated in Magento (and of course in Magento [...]... Read more »

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4 Magento Enterprise Edition frontend improvements

Magento Enterprise template improvements

4 Magento Enterprise Edition frontend improvements

Magento’s enterprise edition has numerous back-end advantages, a more detailed permission system being the nicest in my opinion. The improvements on the default theme in the frontend are somewhat less discussed. The most obvious improvements in the frontend default template are: Cleaner template; not so busy as the bright ‘n blue stand... Read more »

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3 pointers for selecting a Magento implementation partner

Selecting a Magento eCommerce partner

3 pointers for selecting a Magento implementation partner

Selecting an implementation partner for your eCommerce platform is hard. Based on a limited amount of knowledge a decision has to be made between a number of providers whose initial pitch is relatively equal. Assuming you have chosen for Magento (solid decision), here are some pointers for selecting your eCommerce Magento partner: Choose a partner... Read more »

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Admin SSL urls
September 2nd by Sander 0 Comments
If you’re building Magento extensions that function in the Magento admin and which have to be used in SSL’d and non-SSL’d environments, you can not use a regular $this->getUrl() call to construct your urls. Instead, use Mage::getSingleton(’adminhtml/ur...
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Dynamically add widget to .phtml file in Magento template
August 2nd by Sander 1 Comment
Recently I downloaded a Magento module that seemed to do what I want:  a list of tweets of a certain user, displayed in the frontend of Magento. However, the module was a widget. I did not want to create a CMS page or block solely for inputting the widgets variable so I sorted o...
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Manage to-do items in Magento
Manage to-do items in Magento
July 14th by Sander 1 Comment
There’s a new to-do item management module released that makes for an excellent way of keeping an overview of your pending tasks from within your store’s admin. You can assign tasks to team members, comment / take notes and check them as completed from anywhere in th...
Read more »
 
Magento widgets!
October 12th by Sander 0 Comments
Magento just announced their widget system. Very nice, appears to solve three major pain points (with regards to missing or hard to use functions) in the CMS: Using Magento functionality inside CMS pages; Using other content blocks inside CMS pages; Linking to other pages within...
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Magento: Buying or building modules
Magento: Buying or building modules
September 30th by Sander 0 Comments
Because of the open nature of Magento’s commerce platform, and the fast spread of adoption of the platform there’s a wide range of commercially available modules in the market right now. Examples of module shops are (but are not limited to) AheadWorks, WebshopExtensio...
Read more »
 
Importing customers into Magento without newsletter subscription notification
Importing customers into Magento without newsletter subscription notification
September 13th by Sander 2 Comments
Recently we had a fairly large customer base we had to import from an ePages shop into Magento. During import with dataflow profiles, using some test data, we found that all email addresses of the test data received a newsletter subscription succes email (we imported clients with...
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ixedit
ixedit
September 7th by Sander 0 Comments
Making an interactive site can be cumersome. Somebody recently pointed me to ixEdit, an interaction development aid. It works by generating jQuery javascript code. Hopefully Prototype support will come so ixEdit can also aid in Magento development… There’s a pretty co...
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Magento one page checkout & split-path testing
Magento one page checkout & split-path testing
August 29th by Sander 2 Comments
Magento’s AJAXy one page checkout is nice, but determining how well each step performs can be a little difficult. Google Analytics results will just show a customer reaching the one page checkout and not the conversion performance of each separate step… The easiest wa...
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Magento & IE6: Kill IE6
Magento & IE6: Kill IE6
August 6th by Sander 2 Comments
There is a lot of talk on IE6 lately. Digg and YouTube now don’t support IE6 anymore for (parts of) functionality on their sites. As mentioned in a Computerworld article, supporting IE6 can mean a lot of extra development effort. Magento is a pretty HTML/CSS/JavaScript heav...
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Magento Enterprise Edition private sales video
Magento Enterprise Edition private sales video
July 27th by Sander 0 Comments
Magento’s got a new blog post up detailing the private sales functionality in Magento Enterprise Edition, with a demo video. Not what I’m most enthusiastic about but I suppose it’s very useful if you want to create VIP or one-day-fly kind of shops.  For invit...
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