Todays Magento tips
Increase product image quality
Magento by default compress and reduce the quality of uploaded product images. This tips show you how to increase the product image quality.
Yearly Archives: 2009
Display best selling product in magento
Want to display the best selling products in your Magento store on the frontpage or anywhere else in your store? The best selling products means the products sold in highest quantity in Ascending order. This functionality is for some strange … Continue reading
Add Static Block content in template
Normally you would need to add some lines of code in the XML layout files to be able to include a static block from the CMS-system in the Magento Backend, but using this code in the template will automatically fetch … Continue reading
Magento and Drupal
We just noticed that a Maxime Topolov had released an integration between Magento and Drupal. The extension-description promise a full integration of both the catalog and orders, everything being possible to manage from the Drupal Admin interface. We currently dont … Continue reading
Varien releases the Official Magento User Guide Book
Varien today released the official Magento User Guide Book. We’ve had the abilitity to take a short sneak preview of the book and it looks like a winner to the thousands of Magento-users who has now started working on Magento as … Continue reading
Magento Book: Beginner’s Guide
Packt Publishing, specialized in books around opensource-solutions, released their first “Beginner’s Guide”-book about Magento. This book will provide you with step-by-step instructions for installing, configuring, and using Magento to run your own e-commerce site. The author will set up an example store in the book with enough information to adapt the instructions according to your needs. This book is for anyone who wants to create an online store using Magento. If you are a non-technical person and are discouraged by the complexity of this powerful e-commerce application, this book is ideal for you. Continue reading
Magento Enterprise
Varien released its Enterprise Edition a month ago and here are some thoughts about the release. With over 750k downloads of the community-version and 85k community members Varien knew that many of their users would be interested in a paid Enterprise-version, and after a few months of hard work and countless feedback from the community and their partners Varien released the first Enterprise-version April 15th. Continue reading
Magento and Joomla
Joomla, being one of the most popular CMS-systems out there, includes an integration with Virtuemart, a popular ecommerce solution. However, what if you want to use Joomla together with Magento? Then MageBridge is the key! Continue reading
WordPress and Magento
With the latest release of Magento 1.3, there really is no escaping the fact that Magento is the number one software for your eCommerce site. With it’s flexibility and scalability there is very little you can’t get Magento to do … Continue reading
Adding SSL-support to Magento
We have got many requests lately about how to add SSL (https)-support in Magento. Here is instructions on how to add SSL-support to a Magento-installation. Who needs SSL? SSL is important for stores who want their customers to be sure … Continue reading
Add Highslide to Magento
Love Highslide? So do we. We’ve even written a manual on how to install and use Highslide in Magento. We’ve used it on the Product-pages to display product-images but it can easily be extended to display images in your CMS-pages, … Continue reading