http://www.momerco.com on (mobile) ecommerce and Magento Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:10:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/url')->getUrl(). That way the URL is automatically constructed with either SSL or non-SSL. http://www.momerco.com/admin-ssl-urls/ 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 ... http://www.momerco.com/dynamically-add-widget-to-phtml-file-in-magento-template/ 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. http://www.momerco.com/manage-to-do-items-in-magento/ 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 the shop. Check it out at their blog, I ... http://www.momerco.com/magento-widgets/ 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 ... http://www.momerco.com/magento-buying-or-building-modules/ 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 column is_subscribed set ... http://www.momerco.com/importing-customers-into-magento-without-newsletter-subscription-notification/ 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 convincing video on their site, showing that the tool can at ... http://www.momerco.com/ixedit/ 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 way to test changes to checkout steps ... http://www.momerco.com/magento-one-page-checkout-split-path-testing/ 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 heavy platform. Because of the ... http://www.momerco.com/magento-ie6-kill-ie6/ 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 invitation based shops, I always wonder what the revenue ... http://www.momerco.com/magento-enterprise-edition-private-sales-video/