Archive for 2009

Free Magento theme

Today Silverthemes.com released a 100% free Magento theme over at SmashingMagazine.com. The theme, a grungy really SM-styled theme, got a lot of positive feedback from the community right after release. Be sure to check out the free Magento theme. Full Story

Best Magento theme so far?

Silverthemes has released the Magento Brage theme a few weeks ago, with a huge success. Already almost 100 stores have purchased the theme and either used it as-is or customized it to fit a particular design. The Brage theme also come in six different color schemes, which can be selected directly from the Magento Admin without having to touch any code whatsoever. Below are some screenshots of the theme. Full Story

Magento Version 1.3.2.3 released

Magento Community 1.3.2.3 was released yesterday. We have gone through the update and although this is a minor update it solves several critical issues, like PayPal payment handling which has had a few issues around capture. The 1.3.2.3-release also solves several issues related to Category management, plus add a speed improvement to the general maintenance of the categories, which is very welcome. To see a full list of the issues solved go here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/release_notes#Release%20Notes%20-%20Magento%201.3.2.3%20%28July%2022,%202009%29 Download the diff-file for this update here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.3.2.3/1.3.2.2-1.3.2.3.diff Full Story

Silverthemes releases new Magento theme

Silverthemes.com, a Premium Magento Themes company, yesterday released their latest Magento ClearBlue theme. ClearBlue is focused on a clear blue line going through the whole theme. The design is made for easy customization of both colors and the overall style. The ClearBlue theme is bundled with: - Vertical Category menu (Walmart style) - MagicZoom Plus product-image magnifier - SimpleBoard magento widget These popular Magento addons are sold at almost $200 when purchased separately. The theme supports both 3-, 4- and 5-column category-pages – as well as the standard 1-column-, 2-column, (left+right)- and 3-column layout of the store. The … Full Story

Official Magento User Guide Book released

The Magento User Guide provides the site administrator with detailed instructions addressing the platform’s innumerable functions. From setting up your store to managing your products, pages and promotions to generating detailed reports, the User Guide empowers our ever-widening customer to utilize the platform for all of its vast capacity. Serving as a handy problem solving solution as well as a practical step by step guide, the User Guide is sure to become a cost-effective partner in your Magento store implementation. The e-book version cost $24,95 while the printed version cost $32,95. For more details … Full Story

Magento reaches 1 million downloads (and counting)

A major milestone has been reached as Magento surpasses the 1,000,000 million download count. Varien’s CEO Roy Rubin says he is extremely grateful to the community, the partners and the eCommerce world that embraced Magento so warmly over the past 16 months the stable release has been out. Full Story

Top 3 Great Magento Themes

We’ve seen lots of magento themes coming up since the very first official release of Magento in early 2008. Some of these themes are really great, while most of them really lacks the premium content needed for a professional store. Now and then we pick the best Magento themes around. In this first post we’ve picked three great themes from Silverthemes.com, one of the “seniors” in this market. 1. Magento Tubetheme The TubeTheme by Silverthemes is really a great theme. The design is very clean, inspired by YouTube. The functionality includes both 3-, 4- … Full Story

Magento Scalability and Performance

Performance and scalability are hot topics for any enterprise application, including the new Magento Enterprise package. Many clients are usually impressed with the features and extensibility of Magento, but there is a worry in the background if the platform can scale to many thousands of orders per day or huge catalogs. There are two concerns: first, everybody wants to have the shortest loading time possible, which is what we mean by performance. Amazon and Google did some research on this, and found that a hundred milliseconds of delay can already reduce conversion rates. Performance … Full Story

Ten great ecommerce tips for Magento

Practical eCommerce – the leader in Ecommerce news – asks industry insiders each month to share a great, innovative idea that could help an ecommerce company succeed. Here’s what ten of them had to say for the July 2009 installment. Full Story