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Count on us to Design your Magento Go Store

Count on us to Design your Magento Go Store

Magento Go is a good idea for startups getting acquainted with online retail and to get things moving at low cost. The platform offers a clear path to growth and access to advanced features, such as bundled products, cross promotion and coupons with no need of development whatsoever.

The good news is that, besides being a Magento Silver Partner, we are also part of a selective list of Design Providers endorsed by Magento…
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How to increase Magento sales? With one simple extension!

How to increase Magento sales? With one simple extension!

Carl Dwyer/sxc.hu

After a week of discussion, we’ve decided to release a free Magento extension that we’ve already tried on one of our premium clients that we can’t name due to NDA restrictions and itself increased sales by astonishing 1893%!
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How to add Currency selector to Magento’s header

How to add Currency selector to Magento’s header

Since Magento has built in functionality for currency, this article will be pretty much straightforward. I’ll explain how to do it step by step. So you might say it’s a tutorial for beginners.
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Facebook “Friends Already Connected” functionality

Facebook “Friends Already Connected” functionality

I had a request to implement Facebook “Friends Already Connected” functionality together with “Facebook Connect” into Magento’s registration form. For Facebook Connect, I used old Ivan Weiler’s extension as base. And now let me guide you through the process. And note at stat. This is strictly developer orientated article, there’s no final solution.
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Layered navigation, but not quite

Layered navigation, but not quite

Recently I got a chance to rewrite Magento’s layered navigation standard functionality. The request was very specific as the client wanted to keep all of the “filters” visible all the time. For example if  you wish to filter your results by Color (let’s say you have yellow, green, red, blue and magenta) products are filtered but the layered navigation displays all filters. This way a costumer can re-filter the products in current category without the need to return to the category view.

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How to add new custom category attribute in Magento

How to add new custom category attribute in Magento

Sometimes you need to extend functionality of Magento categories. There is several ways to do that, I will show you how it can be done.
You can do that by modifying and adding data into some of tables directly, but it can be waste of time if you don’t know what you are doing.
This post will describe how you can add new custom category attribute in your Magento store via sql_setup script.

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Google Rich Snippets in Magento

Google Rich Snippets in Magento

Probably most of the store owners would like to have their products to be highlighted among other search results in search engines.
Google’s Rich snippets can help you to get desired results. All you need is to integrate them in your Magento store.
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Magento boilerplate

Magento boilerplate

Starting a Magento project the right way is a win for the developer, win for the client and if it’s past/present/future compatible then it’s a win for the whole community. Magento Boilerplate is a pet project of mine with HTML5 Boilerplate, CSS3PIE and selctivizr.js inside.

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There’s no “EMPTY CART” on Magento’s cart page

There’s no “EMPTY CART” on Magento’s cart page

Or at least, hasn’t been there yet. Recently I had to do one too many cart tests, and one of most annoying things was when I had to empty it, As anyone – I had to click it one by one. Today I’m going to explain how can you avoid this by simply creating one simple extension, and enabling “Empty cart” link functionality.
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Magento PayPal Standard – How to pay with currency other than base one and do it in your language

Magento PayPal Standard – How to pay with currency other than base one and do it in your language

Let’s assume that you have a task to implement multiple currency feature in some Magento based project.
What will happen if your client choses PayPal standard as payment method?!
Well, you might be a little dissapointed to see that there is no way to pay in chosen currency. :(
Magento tells you that order was placed using chosen currency, but is it true? Read more

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