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Online advertisement budgets will continue to grow

6th NOV 2008 | Posted by Toni Anicic in Online Marketing

Most of the researches show that online advertisement, despite economic recession, will continue to grow. According to IAB’s Internet Advertising Revenue Report, first half of ’08 was up by 15.2% compared to the same period in 2007. According to the same report, most of the revenue of online advertisement (44%) is generated by search engine advertisement followed by display adds (banners, rich media, digital video, sponsorship) which generated 33%. The last place is reserved (as usual) for e-mail (2%). Read more

Custom price filter in Magento

3rd NOV 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Frontend, Magento

Quite a few people have asked me for a price filter functionality that comes with Magento. Mostly, the questions are same: How does one put the price filter anywhere on the page? How does one set it’s on price ranges in that filter? What defines default price ranges. Is it possible to set price filter for all my products instead of just single category? Lot of questions. The answer might be simpler then you might think.

There are two ways to approach this problem. Head trough wall or stop and think approach. Read more

Getting started with iPhone development learning

2nd NOV 2008 | Posted by Ivan Kalaica in iPhone development

To develop applications for iPhone and iPod Touch, first of all you will need a Mac OS X computer running the Xcode tools. Xcode is Apple’s suite of development tools that provide support for project management, code editing, building executables, source-level debugging, source-code repository management, performance tuning, and much more.

Show products on sale in Magento

2nd NOV 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Products, Programming

By default Magento (up to 1.1.6 version) does not have item on sale list view. If you were to open the http://demo.magentocommerce.com link and go to Furniture > Living Room you would get a grid (or a list) view of all the products inside the category Living Room as displayed on the picture below.

Filters available by default

As you can see, you have three filters available by default (Best Value, Name and Price). So what if we want to add another one here? Read more

How to track internal site search with Google Analytics?

31st OCT 2008 | Posted by Toni Anicic in Online Marketing

Did you know that you can actually track what your visitors are searching for inside your website? We are going to explain you how it’s done via Google’s Analytics tool. It is possible to track your internal site searches if your internal search engine passes the search term in the query string as Google Analytics tracks everything entered in location bar of user’s browser.

Revolution 2 is launched

30th OCT 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Wordpress

Something wonderful happened today. Brian Gardner, the creator of the notorious premium Revolution themes for WordPress, just released a new set of open-source WordPress Themes under the name of Revolution Two. All of the themes on the new site will be made available under the open source/GPL license.

Harvest CO-OP review

29th OCT 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Tools & Frameworks

Do you work in a larger team? When a new project comes, it can be quite hard to determine what human resources are available. It is very hard to know what each one of 30 team members has on its queue list. This simple CO-OP online tool makes availability communication issues much easier and faster. We started using it in Surgeworks couple of days ago and it was extremely helpful. Some might have a feeling like they are in online Big Brother, but it is an useful tool.

Kapitol Reef :: Magento store with 1 product

28th OCT 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Magento, News, Wordpress

Can an online store have only one product? Sure it can and we give you the one that just launched. Kapitol Reef was founded to develop, perfect, manufacture and market a new breed of snorkels based upon pressure-balanced breathing in the aquatic environment. The entire focus for this company is to deliver best-of-class products, starting with the snorkel. Kapitol Reef is in the market for many years and this week they published a new site. Similar to our work on Teraflex project, we used WordPress and Magento platforms for the development.

How to add login form on home page in Magento

21st OCT 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Programming

I found a interesting question on Magento forums. Some of the clients would like to see the login box on home page. Here is a quick howto. Read more

Magento MySQL database diagram

20th OCT 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Database, Magento

If you worked with osCommerce, Zen Cart, CRE Loaded or any similar eCommerce platform before, you might find Magento database structure quite confusing when you see it for the first time. I advise you not to rush too much figuring out what is what by glancing through database. Try to spend first few hours getting familiar with some background. For purposes of flexibility, the Magento database heavily utilizes an Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) data model. As is often the case, the cost of flexibility is complexity. Is there something in Magento that is simple from developers point of view?