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10 Open Source e-commerce solutions reviewed
Sep 3rd
You can of course spend tens of thousands of pounds on a e-commerce platform. Perhaps you will get your investment back and perhaps it will offer a few features that no one else has. However, open source solutions are fast in development and anyone who wants to help out can. Before spending a penny on a commercial solution you should take a long hard look at the free alternative. Web distortion have reviewed 10 of the most active and promising e-commerce platforms.
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Smashing Magazine releases free Magento theme
Sep 1st
Smashing Magazine has been an excellent source of design inspiration, advice and guidance for years. Occasionally they release free content and this time that content is a new theme for Magento.
House keeping for your Magento database
Aug 18th
Unless you have correctly setup a cron job to clear out your Magento database it is possible that over time your database could grow extremely large. We have encountered databases almost 1GB filled with useless logged information. Clearing these out not only saves disk space but can lead to some dramatic speed improvements as well.
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Smashing Magazine releases free Magento theme : Sigyn SM
Aug 15th
Smashing Magazine has been an excellent source of design inspiration, advice and guidance for years. Occasionally they release free content and this time that content is a new theme for Magento.
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Top WordPress Plugins for Content Management Sites
Aug 6th
We run a lot of websites and frequently use wordpress as the basis of these sites. Wordpress allows non-techies the ability to manage their sites on a day to day basis without running up bills getting designers / hosting companies to do trivial tasks. A couple of years back we decided to refocus our business strategy and decided to focus on two products: WordPress and Magento. We think that by offering deep levels of support in these two products gives us an edge over other companies who spread their nets wider. We chose wordpress as the sheer number of developers makes just about anything possible. We can offer incredible functionality to our customers and still keep our prices competitive with the huge hosting companies. The power in WordPress is the ability of 3rd party plugins to transform the humble blogging platform in a tool for every occasion. Here are some of our favourite Plugins
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Create a Left hand Navigation in Magento 1.4 1.4x
Aug 6th
This is an updated set of instructions from the previous post for 1.3x. A few things have changed with 1.4x which rendered the original information obsolete. These instruction will allow you to create a left hand vertical navigation as seen here . For more info see credits / references at the end.
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Magento multistore setup under Plesk
Aug 5th
Magetno is a very powerful and flexible e-commerce platform which can allow a single installation of the platform to support multiple sites on multiple domains, sub-domain or folders.
This tutorial assumes you have a linux based Plesk server with SSH access and that each store will be on a seperate domain.
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Change Check to Cheque / Money order to Postal order in Magento
Aug 4th
Magento is a featured packed robust e-commerce solution but it does have its bugs and failures. This is where having a host with free tech support comes in handy (plug plug). With the use of translation files Magento is able to adjust for many of the worlds languages including that most awkward.. English.. of the UK variety. The standard GB translation pack covers many things but what looks like a bug prevents a glaring problem. The term Cheque is rendered as Check.. several times.
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magento modern theme : HMTL code in the price of the additional product information
Aug 3rd
Version 1.4x has brought many great features to Magento and the new way of handling themes is greatly welcomed and will encourage users to create their own iteration of the demo themes rather than editing the core code. However, a few bugs have slipped through..
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Magento emails not sending to free email accounts eg gmail aol hotmail
Aug 2nd
A few clients of ours have been experiencing this problem lately. Looks like some of the email services are dropping some emails if they dont like the look of them. Reading around it seems that if an email hits a number of criteria the email carrier will not simply place it in junk / spam but drops the whole email with no warning or feed back to user.
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