Category: Magento

ECOMMERCE SALES: VIDEO MARKETING

Magento Video Marketing in eCommerce sales. Buying online has one disadvantage compared to a visit to your local high street, the inability to examine the product you are looking at and see how it works. Static images, even high resolution ones, can only show so much. This is where video marketing can be a great […]

THIRD PARTY EXTENSIONS VULNERABILITIES: PLUS SOLUTION.

How secure are your 3rd party Magento extensions? Third party extensions are increasingly targeted in attempts to hack your store where many attacks have shifted focus to 3rd party components. Magento continues to be a target for payment skimmers. In 2015 attackers used the “Shoplift” vulnerability in the core Magento code base. An upgrade in […]

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MAGENTO SITES AT RISK

Researchers at Foregenix analysed more than 170,000 Magento eCommerce sites and found that of those using Magento 1 some 90% are at a ‘heightened’ risk with 30% of Magento 2 sites at an ‘elevated risk’. The heightened risk rate includes sites that have not been patched with recent updates with some missing patches released nearly […]

THIRD PARTY ONLINE SCANS

There are a number of useful and free third party website scanners available which can be a great addition to your tool box. Here we will look at three offerings from Foregenix, Sucuri and SSL Labs. Foregenix Founded in 2009 consisting of a team specialising in digital forensics the company developed extensively into compliance and […]

MAGECART AND CONTENT SECURITY POLICY

MOBILE PHONE CART ABANDONMENT

A mobile phone for many is a constant companion, at home in front of the TV, or sat in a coffee shop enjoying a latte while browsing the internet. For eCommerce this translates to opportunity, if someone has a mobile phone they are a potential customer with access to your shop. Mobile sales have one […]

PREPARING FOR BLACK FRIDAY

Black Friday is fast approaching so this blog will highlight some of the best practices on the run-up to the event. Promotion Not every store participates in Black Friday so a banner with a message stating these will be the lowest prices / great deals is a great enticement for current customers to return to […]

PHP SUPPORT TIMELINE

PHP versions have a number of stages in their lifespan. Following each versions initial release the php branch will be supported for two years. Within this period of time bugs and security issues are reported, fixed, and released. After two years of bug and security fixes each version reverts to critical security support for one […]

DX3WEBS MAGENTO HOSTING PACKAGES

For those who are happy with their current old plan don’t worry, nothing will change.  This promotion is to highlight the changes to our packages and the great benefits to be gained for very little additional outlay. Below is a list of both the old and new Magento Hosting packages offered by Dx3Webs.  As you […]

MAGENTO 1 SUPPORT CONFIRMED JUNE 2020

It will no doubt come as a great relief to many that despite rumours circulating of support ending November 2018* (or in direct response to them) Magento have officially announced support will continue until June 2020 for Magento 1: “For Magento Commerce 1, we are providing software support through June 2020. Depending on your version, software support may include both quality fixes and security patches. For […]