Ecommerce developers with Magento

Every Magento user noticed that there is special {{magentocode}} syntax available in cms pages and blocks. We traced a bit to find out which params are available and what exactly they do.

Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. Let’s see how it behaves in Magento.

This is my first post here and I’ll write about my first challenge regarding Magento since I came to work at Inchoo.

As title says I’ll show you how to implement simple random banner rotation functionality in Magento using static blocks.

Last week I had a request to add new custom layout for few cms pages in one Magento shop. It’s really useful for different static pages of your shop.

Knowing how to program does not mean you know how to develop. Once you reach the point where you know most, if not all, ins and outs of your programming language, then it’s time to move on. Move on to stuff like programming patterns and application architecture (design). These terms are basically language independent, meaning if you are good at application architecture and know your way around common programming patterns then you reach the point where programming language is almost irrelevant. Good and extensible architecture is good no matter what programming language you use.

Couple of days ago I posted a question to LinkedIn Q&A. It was for those individuals/companies who use Wordpress to run their main site. I was interested to know why do they find Wordpress to be their chosen one CMS. The users were supposed to name top 3 key elements in WP that they find most important for your site.  That was the easy part to most of them. Harder part was to name top 3 key elements they miss in WP, but have a feeling it would be important for their site.

There were some really interesting replies.