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
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
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. Full Story