Ecommerce developers with Magento

If you install new version of Magento 1.4, you can see that existing differences in structures of eav attributes. Earlier all data of EAV attributes were in table eav_attribute, now in new version eav_attribute table is smaller, beacuse a lot of fileds moved in new tables.

Magento has quite interesting email sending capabilities. However, those are more in terms of email templates then selecting a non-built in email server. Sometimes, your web hosting might have separate mail server and even the simple php send mail does not work. In such cases you are forced to use an external mail server that supports SMTP. Good example of this is a Gmail.

Magento has pretty neat image helper you can use to output your product photos. Today one of my coworkers got frustrated with the white frame he kept getting around the resized image he tried to output in sidebar block. As s possible solution he tried resolving the issue with CSS. However, there is a better, more nicer solution to ditch the whit frame around resized images in Magento.

We’re proud to present free Facebook Connect Magento extension which enables customers fast and easy registration and login with their Facebook identity. Demo and help page can be seen on our playground demo store, just click “Connect with Facebook” link in upper right corner.

We are witnessing something amazing in the search industry right now. Bing is growing and as the Bing and Yahoo integration goes through, for the first time in a decade, Google will get a worthy competitor.

New Magento 1.4 brings changes in how errors are displayed along with an easy way to put your favorite store into maintenance mode.

I’ve been reading an article at GetElastic blog, one of my favorite resources regarding e-commerce marketing. At the end of the article “A/B Test Case Study: Can Split Test Results Be Trusted?” they showed us a case study in which they tested two exactly the same variations against each other and one of them performed 4.97% better than the other.

We had a request from our client, that we change default number of items in Magento admin grid. Now, this is very simple, when we know how to change it. Below you can see an example which uses magento observer model and event hocking “core_block_abstract_prepare_layout_before”.

Assuming you have set unique base URL foreach website running on the same Magento installation all you need to switch between those websites is this little snippet.
Just paste it somewhere in your templates.

However, keep in mind that I only tested this to work for my own configuration.

Basicly, what this snippet does is redirect to website’s default store base url.

Yesterday, MG Siegler wrote a blog post at TechCrunch pointing out a mysterious Google Trends drop for major social sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, and Foursquare somewhere in the January of 2010.