Ecommerce developers with Magento

Discounts became almost a crucial part of the modern e-commerce. One could argue that discounts are even overused. Sometimes as a visitor, I’m not really sure if I’m actually getting a discount or is that a standard product price masked as a discount.

We all now that image is everything, especially when you’re selling the product online. There are some obvious facts that need to be taken into concern. This post will include some (IMHO) valuable reminders and a checklist for the shop owners willing to reevaluate their product presentation.

The Inchooers are back!

The Fourth episode is featuring our own Coding Guru – Ivan Weiler!

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If you updated to latest Magento 1.4.0.0 or 1.4.0.1 version you may notice that Google Analytics implementation is broken. Here are few easy instructions how to fix this.

Surgeworks has grown into a pretty big company with several different teams and areas of expertise. In an effort to make it clear for the website visitors what the company does, we started separating teams into different “micro-brands”.

Unlike backend development, term frontend development usually refers to a little less programming knowledge requirement. In regards to that, here are few truly essential snippets every Magento frontend developer should know and understand.

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.