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Custom category menu navigation in Magento

By: Petar Sambolek, May 16, 2014

Magento has its top menu reserved for category navigation. It’s pretty solid for displaying categories, even when there is a large number of them.

What some of the clients want is a vertical (sidebar) category menu, so they can display sibling categories of a category their customers are exploring.

In this article we’ll cover the creation of a full vertical menu. We’ll go 3 levels deep: category, subcategory, and sub-subcategory. You can always expand on this, but I believe 3 levels are more than enough for most stores.

Create Magento Dropdown Login in a few minutes

By: Petar Sambolek, Apr 16, 2014

Dropdown login forms are not a feature many online stores use, but in some cases they could be quite useful UX feature. In this tutorial, I will explain how to create such a dropdown in a few minutes!

Utilizing Magento notification system

By: Petar Sambolek, Apr 02, 2014

Building your own Magento modules (extensions) can be a tedious task. We always strive to develop everything ‘the Magento way’, which is why we frequently dig into the core to see how Magento’s Core team does things. Once in a while, we stumble upon useful features we think are useful and share them with you. One of such features is Magento’s notification system.

More Flexible Approach to Listing Sale Products in Magento

By: Petar Sambolek, Mar 17, 2014

Some clients have a need to show product on sale on homepage, or, sometimes, to filter products on sale in each category individually. In this post i’ll show you two ways of listing products on sale:

On CMS page as a list
By using a filter in category view

Let’s get to it!

Magento functional testing with casper.js

By: Stanislav Mihic, Oct 30, 2013

Testing can be boring and time consuming task. So why don’t we use some tools and make our lives easier? In Magento there are numerous “boring” tasks that need to be done after the first install and then again when you test a new functionality. For example, create a test account, add product to cart, go trough checkout process, add product to wishlist, compare etc.

Analyze Magento speed and performance

By: Stanislav Mihic, Oct 29, 2013

If an e-commerce site is making $100,000 per day, a 1 second page delay could potentially cost you $2.5 million in lost sales every year.

Fix chrome autofill issue on Magento checkout

By: Hrvoje Jurisic, May 24, 2013

Learn how to fix “This webpage has disabled automatic filling for this form” magento bug in Chrome browser.

Object-specific Layout Update Handles

By: Zvonimir Buric, May 21, 2013

Every HTTP request in Magento results with a few layout handles which can be used to customize layout of desired pages. If you ever tried to dump layout handles in Magento, you would see many of them. These handles are calculated differently, based on different variables.

Magento 2 and Twig

By: Branko Ajzele, Apr 24, 2013

Recently there has been some buzz around Magento getting support for Twig template engine. Looking at the CHANGELOG.markdown file under the Magento2 GitHub repository for 2.0.0.0-dev44 version commit, this seems to be more than just a buzz.

One of the first Magento Certified Front End Developers in the World

By: Tomislav Bilic, Apr 08, 2013

We received a news few days ago that Vanja Devcic and Hrvoje Jurisic achieved the passing score and therefore have achieved the status of Magento Certified Front End Developers. It was a great news for us since they are one of the first in the world.

We were invited late January to participate in a certification beta testing session for Magento Front End Developers. We couldn’t just take the voucher to some testing centre as we normally do. Instead, we needed to go to a place called Fast Lane Institute for Knowledge Transfer GmbH – Munich.

Managing navigation links in the account dashboard

By: Vedran Sola, Mar 18, 2013

In this article I’ll demonstrate how to manage navigation links in the customer’s account dashboard: one way of removing new links from customer’s account dashboard which should be avoided and another way which is the way to go.

E-commerce Web Design Galleries

By: Vice Bozic, Feb 27, 2013

If you are looking for some design inspiration, here is a list of 8 E-commerce Web Design Galleries.

Planning online store’s navigation

By: Toni Anicic, Feb 20, 2013

You’re at stage of building an online store where you need to define the structure of your navigation. In this article, I’ll give you some advice that will help you figure out how to structure it and what deserves a place in the main navigation and what does not.

Ultimate Magento Robots.txt File Examples

By: Toni Anicic, Feb 12, 2013

Extremely common question when it comes to eCommerce – and for that matter Magento SEO – is how a robots.txt file should look and what should be in it. For the purpose of this article, I decided to take all of our knowledge and experience, some sample robots.txt files from our clients sites and some examples from other industry leading Magento studios to try and figure out an ultimate Magento robots.txt file.

eCommerce Responsive Design vs Mobile Theme

By: Toni Anicic, Jan 22, 2013

One of the most common questions I got while consulting online store owners in 2012 was responsive theme vs mobile theme – which is the best – which are pros and cons. I’ll cover it from several points of view in this article.

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