Ecommerce developers with Magento

Hello inchoo readers. As we are nearing the Christmas time, I felt I could write down some free code and share with you. Yesterday I got all excited seeing Magento 1.4 beta1 available for download. As you can guess, it did not took me long to download and install it. One of the most interesting features, for me, are the widgets.

Do not worry. This is not another Google Wave blog post. Instead, this is the post of another online store that was developed by our team and two great guys from WEBDOGS company: Pacific Wave Surf Shop. This family owned business has been open since 1993. Physical surf shop is in the old historical building in downtown Santa Cruz, and is packed wall to wall with surf and skate products. Although building is historical, Pacific Wave moved to online waters very early. After some time of online presence, they opened an osCommerce powered online store in 2007. Two years later, it was time to move on.

Sometimes, clients requirements exceed the defaults built into the Magento. Recently we came across a task that among other things required manipulation of bundle products in Magento. In order to help my coworker Tomas I wrote this little code snippet that programatically adds bundle product to cart.

For those of you who love Google Custom Search and would like to use it with the Magento, here is a little how to. Entire embed process is really easy. It all comes down to copy paste-ing few lines of code from Google to Magento. My idea is to create the static block in Magento CMS section and then use the custom CMS page from which I will call this statick block among other HTML content I might wish to throw into the CMS page.

We already wrote about this subject, but now we give you a new, improved version of it.

Let’s say you want to have a sidebar box with the latest news from your wordpress blog on your magento powered store, and you want to show the thumbnails with it. We’re going to do it by displaying articles from our RSS feed.

Google Analytics has always shown you how people search to find your site. With Site Search, you can now see how people search your site once they are already on it. This is a goldmine of information because every time visitors search, they literally tell you in their own words what they are looking for.

Does it make sense to use aheadWorks Blog extension over WordPress? To newcomers to this site, this article might be a bit strange and confusing. One would surely ask himself, why would do these guys write about using aheadWorks Blog extension over WordPress in Magento, given that the do WordPress and Magento integrations plus all sort of custom Magento development.

Recently I have been working on a site that sort of uses Magento’s Store Views for something they are not primely intendant for. Sometimes site owners have a problem with grasping all those features Magento offers.

Can your sell your products on Facebook? And by sell I mean – have the customers actually complete the transaction without ever leaving their favorite social playground? 1-800-flowers.com leads the way, or so it seems.

Choosing a platform on which to build your business is by no means an easy task. One must as itself, how much money, personal time and effort is he willing to put into it. There are numerous free and open source solutions that promise an easy ride. Since I’m in business of PHP development, here are few platforms worth mentioning X-Cart, osCommerce, PrestaShop, Oxid, Magento, etc.