There are a lot of ways to add social sharing buttons to your Magento store. You can choose from several different free or paid extensions, create your own, use services like AddThis or even paste the official button scripts from button generators (like Facebook Like Button generator). However, you will always end up with default (official) buttons that have a limited set of styling options. If you need a simple solution that just works this article is for you.
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Case study – Implementing Google Custom Search – 338% revenue increase!
We are privileged to work with some amazing online stores out there, and it gives us great pleasure when we see our recommendations implemented, tested and see the results that have amazing impact on our clients’ businesses.
Read moreYouTube SEO – How to rank higher in YouTube search?
To this day little was known about YouTube’s search engine ranking factors compared to what we as an industry know about Google’s ranking factors. This is pretty sad since YouTube is the world’s 2nd largest search engine. There were lots of practical advice and wild guesses thrown out there from common sense but till now we had little actual data and case studies of YouTube optimization, and nothing even remotely similar to this data we have for Google.
Read moreAdding product image lightbox effect using jQuery plugin (a better way)
This is not a copy-paste kind of tutorial. It is made for beginners so please try to understand what is going on before you start copying the code. If you are an experienced developer you can skip to the end and inspect the final code.
Nowadays every client wants some kind of lightbox effect for product images on the product page. Although there are a lot of ways to do it, I often stumble upon Magento stores that have a buggy and sometimes useless implementation of this feature. In my opinion, it should be simple, fast, easy to use and above all intuitive.
Read moreYour online store was hit by Panda or Penguin?
Running a very popular blog over at inchoo.net, sometimes a piece of spam comment slips through our radar. When you’re talkign thousands and thousands of comments, there can be lots of spam in them.
Read moreThe Ultimate Guide to E-commerce Content Marketing
As e-commerce is continuing to grow at astonishing rates worldwide, the PPC and SEO competition is becoming stronger every day. It is much harder to get a positive ROI out of your advertising today than it was just a few months ago, all thanks to incredible growth in the sector and new software, tools and services that allow people to build professional online stores with relatively humble investments.
Read moreInchoo Flickr Gallery Magento Extension
Inchoo Flick Gallery is an easy-to-use Magento extension that will integrate any Flickr gallery into your Magento website. It is fully customizable using a simple Magento back-end configuration page and it uses Flickr API to get all the required information and data. Extension is tested on Magento 1.6 and 1.7 but it’s still the first version so be careful if you decide to use it on your live site.
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In Magento Enterprise Edition we have Rich Merchandising Suite which allows you to define customer segments to optimize your marketing initiatives.
Read moreCreating your own web shop – Part 1: Where to start
Creating your own web shop can be a tedious task, both technically and time consuming. Not to mention there are tens of quality PHP based web shop systems out there available for free. One of the best if you ask me is Magento, which exceeds the term web shop system by even bigger term “platform”. However, regardless of how some much a given system/platform is feature rich there are always those special clients with special requests which exceed the possibilities of even the mightiest eCommerce systems/platforms out there.
Read moreWhat is schema.org and what about my rich snippets?
Schema.org has recently been announced by Google. It’s an innitiative by Google, Bing and Yahoo to create one microdata standard for structuring web content. Basically it’s the good old Google Rich Snippets, but followed by all three major search engines and it also brought a lot of new markup.
Read moreDoing Business with Croatian Software Exporters
Last Friday Inchoo attended the first official meeting of a newly established association of Croatian independent software exporters – CISEx. The meeting was held in Zagreb with 40 odd members of the association present.
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E-Commerce and HTML5/CSS3 Highlights from Web Directions South 2010
On the 15th and 16th of October, Renato Carvalho and I had the chance to attend Web Directions South Conference held at Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Read moreHow to add “View All” button in Magento’s pagination
Hi, I had a bit of unusual request from a client and I had to create “View All” button and put it into Magento’s pagination on category listings, so I decided to share the trick. 😉
Read moreInchoo becomes Magento Professional Partner
Inchoo has officially become a Magento Professional Partner. With this step, Inchoo joins an international roster of Magento Solution Partners as the first partner in Southeastern Europe.
Read moreWhy rel=nofollow in eCommerce menus is a bad idea
First of all, I’d like to say that GetElastic is usually an awesome and very useful blog for anyone that does anything related to eCommerce. Linda wrote hundreds of extremely good posts over there, but this new guest post at GetElastic was kind of dangerous for site owners and I’ll try to explain why, putting it as simple as possible.
Read moreImportance of product presentation
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.
Also, let’s remind ourselves that eCommerce product photography is probably one of the most important steps in “optimizing” the performance of your eCommerce online store.
Read moreIs it time for the 1st Croatian eCommerce client?
As some of you may know, our team is located in lovely small country called Croatia (it is in Europe). Our mission is to create a microbrand for eCommerce development services. Since we were using Magento as a platform of choice, we ended up creating a microbrand for a Magento development services. On the long run, our goal is to be recognized in eCommerce community and not just Magento’s. There is a long way to go to achieve this, but here we are: working in the international world, with clients all over the globe. From US ones, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, France, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong. Only one Croatian client hired us for iPhone development services. Is it time for first Croatian eCommerce client?
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What is the best shopping cart?
If you try to ask this question on some forum or newsgroup, you will surely get many replies. Everyone will present you his favorite. My first developed online store was created with standard osCommerce platform. After three or four projects, I started to work with CRE Loaded and used it frequently for years. Although it was also an osCommerce fork, it had many advantages. I switched to Magento™ early this year and this is my final choice.
Let’s look at the popularity of those platforms now.
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