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How To Set Up Multiple Websites In Magento
One good thing about Magento is that you can manage multiple ecommerce stores from the same admin panel. You can use the same products on both stores, or separate them out by category. Anyway, you already know that I do not suggest using Magento Community without strong programming knowledge or a Magento ninja always at [...]
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5 Common Reasons Your Ecommerce Sales Are Suffering
I have been around ecommerce for a while, and one thing always reigns true, things go wrong. Whether it is a bug that stops products from making their way into the cart, or it is a problem with the checkout page it happens on a regular basis (especially if you use Magento). Unfortunately, error checking [...]
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Why I No Longer Recommend Magento Community Edition To Small Businesses
Let me preface this with a quote from yours truly… I Love Magento Yes, that was me about a year ago. However, I have sadly changed my tune… How me and Magento got started I was on the rebound from a very difficult relationship with OSCommerce. Trying to SEO oscommerce had left me empty and [...]
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Quick Magento Tip: Controlling Number Of Columns In Category Blocks On Home Page
Recently, I wrote a post on how to force Magento to show a specific number of columns on the category pages. You do not have to edit layout.xml to make this change, it is actually quite simple. Just use the following snippet of code in your category block inside of the CMS system on any [...]
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Adding Reviews To Magento Product Pages The Hard Way
Magento’s xml block building system is ingenious…when it works. When it doesn’t work, you can find yourself digging through thousands of lines of code to figure out what’s going on and how to fix the issue. If anybody would build an ecommerce system that made it as simple as WordPress to design templates and plugins, they [...]
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How To Force Magento To Show More Products In Each Row On Category Pages
I actually found this solution because in one of my client’s sites, I discovered, after a recent nightmarish upgrade, that Magento was attempting to show four product columns in each row. The theme of the site was broken because it was unable to handle the additional column. Go to app/design/frontend/default/theme/layout/catalog.xml Find this line of code: [...]
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Upgrading Magento To 1.4.1.0 – Problems and Fixes
Dr. Jeff Byron, a Georgia Tech Grad, once told me never to upgrade to any piece of software that ends in a “0″ unless you are looking for a way to occupy your time with software issues. Unfortunately, he was right and Magento’s latest stable version created roughly 10+ issues that resulted in loss of [...]
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WordPress Twentyten Ecommerce Theme With Google Checkout
At one point, I was using Wp ecommerce to turn WordPress into a shopping cart. Unfortunately, I found that it lacked in three major areas. SEO – the themes for the most part are not search engine friendly (you could not manually edit title tags etc) It continually conflicted with other major plugins It only [...]
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How To Add Text To Categories In Magento Using Static Blocks
One of my clients wants to create a content heavy section of his site that contains FAQ’s and other relevant information. He wants the category to appear within his top navigation without worrying about making changes to Magento’s code. Well, I have a solution. Magento offers a CMS section that allows it’s users to edit [...]
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