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  • Personalized Products on Magento

    Offering customers possibility to customize products became standard functionality from Magento based online store. Choosing 'color' or 'size' of product is quite often, however Magento with addition of few plugins can do much more. Shops that offer custom print or embroidery options require additional options, where customers can populate custom options and preview in real time those changes. One of our clients have apparel store that offer customization for one line of products and we helped him to add those...
    May 28th, 2015 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Custom Option Swatch and Magmi importer

    Magmi is product importing tool that will allow you to import/update large number of products at a reasonable pace. One of very useful features is ability to create product "customizable options", through custom options plugin. Adding those options manually through Magento back-end is time consuming operation even for one product. Magmi 'Mass importer' support Magento default custom option types, however it is possible to use it for importing custom option swatches too. This is Step by Step guide how to...
    May 13th, 2015 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch compatibility with Magento 1.9 RWD theme

    Latest version of Magento (versions CE 1.9 and EE 1.14) among many new features brings a new theme. RWD theme (short from Responsive Web Design) is responsive theme, turning your store into tablet and smart phone friendly responsive site. One of new things is use of jQuery framework on front end and use of more organized, reusable CSS. Our focus was on Media section that now features integrated zoom and image switcher. Color Swatch allow customers to update and preview...
    March 24th, 2015 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Improve your Magento’s Robots.txt

    One of the very first things that you should do when setting up your Magento webstore – SEO wise – is to check and configure your robots.txt file correctly. Robots.txt file on your webstore gives you the options to prevent duplicate content of your website being indexed by search engines and gives you the options to hide content that you do not want indexed or shown on Search Result pages. Robots.txt or Robbots exclusion standard is a protocol used to...
    March 17th, 2015 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Using and upgrading your Magento Profiler

    Magento has a lot of built in features designed to help the developers like you debug / profile and optimize the whole website that’s running on top of the latest Magento installation, as well as to profile and debug, then optimize the Magento Extensions and Addons that you have running. It’s always worth going over the code and making sure it’s performing at it’s best. And even if that’s not the case, you should consider profiling your pages if you...
    December 10th, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Download Magento – Get Your Magento Direct Download Link

    You can always get your copy of the latest stabile version of Magento on the official website: http://www.magentocommerce.com/download You can select the latest stable version of the eCommerce system and there are also few very useful tools available too. For example the Magento Sample Data is also available for downloading. For more instructions on how to install and set up the Sample data – please check this Magneto Tutorial (http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/installing-sample-data-archive-for-magento-ce) If you’re having problems with the download link, try typing...
    August 25th, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch and Retina ready themes

    Following trends and adding new features is one of our main goals in terms of planning and developing extensions for Magento. Since our Color Swatch extension is built to be a visual enhancement to any Magento store, it is crucial for it to be fully compatible with the most popular themes for Magento. As the number of visitors that use 'Retina ready' devices grows, it became very important that the Magento store offers them a proper browsing experience. Most noticeable...
    June 20th, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Making sure you Magento Cron is working properly

    Every Magento webstore relies on cron job to do some of the work. There are numerous parts of Magento that depend on the Magento cron setup, so that everything on your store will function as it should.   A lot of what’s Magento doing in the background is dependent and relies only on proper cron job setup. From sending out newsletters and applying various discount rules, to the system maintenance – cleaning up the log files and refreshing the cache....
    May 29th, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch compatibility with iPhone, iPad and other touch devices

    Not too long ago, computers were the main electronic device for browsing the internet, however that is in the past and now  a significant number of customers use tablets or mobile phones to browse the internet. Due to the changes in technology,  it is mandatory for your Magento store to have a responsive design, that way it can be accessed on  a wide variety of devices. Besides having a website that  looks good, it is important that the functionality of...
    March 13th, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Advanced Search Suggests – Advanced Search Suggests on frontend

    Advanced Search Suggests on frontend Advanced Search Suggests extension will upgrade Magento default search form with AJAX delivered content according to searched terms. Suggested Terms section will offer similar search terms with real time highlight feature that makes search easier and precise, increasing number of successful searches. Suggest Products section will offer suggested product with selected product information’s (title, description, image, and price) with option to buy product directly from search form. Customizing Advanced Search Suggests Extension templates are free...
    March 3rd, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.