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...

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 ...

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 lo...

An excellent blog post by Contrast today covered change requests for web applications. While the example used in the blog post may be a little overdrawn, the main point excellent: there are no small changes to web applications. Magento’s very wide range of out of the box f...

Many people seem to be struggling with Magento’s website, store and store view when trying to understand multi-store principles. So here’s a quick alternative guide to them: “Website”, “store view” and “store” are just three levels...

When it comes to pre-made Magento frontend templates, there’s a wide variety of suppliers. Here are 3 things to look for in the template that is going to be the basis of your eCommerce adventure: The Magento template should match the identity you are trying to convey; The ...

Defining cross-sells and upsell can already be a hard thing to do. Enter Magento: default options for entering cross-sells, up-sells and related products. To throw even more into the mix, there are community modules for “customers also bought” and other cross-referenc...

On Magento’s blog we can see Magento Enterprise Edition’s gift cards and customer store credits explained. Three ways these can make your store and story better by improving eCommerce functionality: Store credit can be used as a basis for loyalty programmes. Gift ca...

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...