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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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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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Where did all my line breaks go in product descriptions?
Aug 2nd
If you have recently updated to Magento 1.4x you may have noticed that your descritions which were previously formatted to include line breaks suddenly show up as a single paragraph. It looks like this was done to iron out a few bugs with the new WYSIWYG features but leaves those doing it the old fashioned way in a bit of a pickle.
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Fix missing Layered navigation in Magento
Jan 25th
If you find that when you look at your Magento powered e-commerce site and all your layered navigation sub categories have vanished! Don’t panic.
Fix Invalid Category error in Magento.
Jan 21st
This is a trick error with very little information floating around on it. There are various reasons why it happens but essentially something has caused your default store view to forget what the default category is.
magento may throw up a
Mage::throwException(’Invalid categor…’)
error in the diagnostic info.
The fix is easy. Log into admin which will still be working and under configure select manage shops and click on your shop name. Your root category will be empty .. simply select the correct root category.
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