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Magento Reaches 1.5 Million downloads
Written by Ben Rogers Wednesday, 27 January 2010 12:06
Magento is growing quicker than ever and we've just recorded over 1.5 Million downloads! We would like to thank the community for all their help and support. You can download the latest version right now, and look for version 1.4 to be out soon along with other changes and updates to the community site.
Whats new with magento connect?
Written by Ben Rogers Wednesday, 27 January 2010 12:05
Magento Connect has recently eclipsed 1,700 downloads and now more than ever extension are being added and downloaded at an astonishing rate. As you might have read Tim Schulz has recently joined the Magento team as our Magento Connect Product Manager. Tim is planning on upgrading the Magento Connect experience as his first order of duty. He writes "A few of you might be aware of an effort underway (which we’ve dubbed internally as “Connect 2.0") to bring our marketplace to the next level. Now that I’m heading up Magento Connect, I’ll be sure to keep you updated on what changes to expect and how you can respond. I’d also recommend following our new Twitter account, @MagentoConnect to stay informed." Tim will also be working on empowering our developer community and other cool projects. Keep posted via twitter, the Magento Blog and newsletter for future announcements.
Active magento payment modules
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 11:22 Written by Ben Rogers Wednesday, 27 January 2010 11:18
This code bellow will get you all active Magento payment modules. This example below return an array which you can use to create drop down menu or something else in Magento’s front-end or admin sections.
class Inchoo_Vendor_Model_Activpayment{ public function getActivPaymentMethods() { $payments = Mage::getSingleton('payment/config')->getActiveMethods(); $methods = array(array('value'=>'', 'label'=>Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__('--Please Select--'))); foreach ($payments as $paymentCode=>$paymentModel) { $paymentTitle = Mage::getStoreConfig('payment/'.$paymentCode.'/title');$methods[$paymentCode] = array( 'label' => $paymentTitle, 'value' => $paymentCode,)} return $methods; } }Magento SEO transition
Written by Ben Rogers Monday, 25 January 2010 09:45
“Will my search engine rankings drop after the switch to Magento?” is one of the major SEO question regarding implementation of magento from another platform. Unfortunately, the answer is a mix of yes and no depending on a few factors. No matter which e-commerce solution you were using prior to switch, your rankings might get effected. Switching to Magento will effect your on page seo techniques including:
- URL structure
- Meta data and meta description
- On-site silo and website structure
- Internal linking and outgoing links
- Distance of deep links from the homepage
All of these might influence your rankings in negative but also as likely in positive way. If you are attempting to move to Magento platform, I strongly advise you to seek for a Magento SEO expert first, to make sure you retain your rankings, page rank and website importance. The most important thing to do when making a switch is to 301 redirect which will point your old url's to the new ones, which will allow you to keep the link importance you have collected so far.. For everything else, consult with your Magento SEO professional.
Moneybookers payment intergration Magento
Last Updated on Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:52 Written by Ben Rogers Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:51
Official Module to Provide Integration with One of the World’s Largest, Safest and Most Secure Payment Services
The world ́s fastest-growing ecommerce platform, and Moneybookers, one of the largest online payment systems, with millions of customers worldwide, today announce the official integration of Moneybookers’ payment and merchant services as an official bundled module in the upcoming Version 1.4 of the Open Source Magento eCommerce platform.
Moneybookers‘ worldwide network will allow Magento merchants to offer customers a wide range of payment and banking options globally, with over 80 local payment choices in more than 200 countries, all with low transaction fees. This includes the increasingly popular Moneybookers eWallet solution, currently used by over ten million customers.
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Two: Page Planning, Templates, & HTML 5
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:43 Written by Ben Rogers Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:41
Magento themes and the developers who can create them are in high demand.
Developing Magento themes for specific clients or for resale on template marketplaces can provide a nice bit of incremental income for savvy web developers. And, from a technical standpoint, creating a Magento theme is not much of a challenge.
About this Magento Theme Series
This article is the second in a series of posts created to walk you through developing a Magento theme from start to finish—line-by-line. These articles are aimed at intermediate level web developers and designers, and will discuss all of the major steps and development decisions associated with theme creation. The theme being created in these articles, which I call Pine, will be used on a live store, so this is not just some kind of coding exercise. It is a real Magento store theme in the making.
In the first article, I briefly discussed some of the business decisions behind the Pine Theme, for example, I said that we wanted to include site badges (trust symbols), have lots of merchandising, and engage customers. I showed you a mock-up of the graphic design, and I mentioned that we would not be creating our theme from nothing, rather we are going to start with the Modern Theme from the Magento Core team and build from there.
Magento Enterprise Edition features
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:39 Written by Ben Rogers Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:37
Magento Enterprise Edition features a powerful Rich Merchandising Suite which allows you to define customer segments to optimize your marketing initiatives. Effectively target merchandise at specific segments and personalize the shopping experience for your customers.
Learn more in this video and on the Magento Enterprise Edition page and check out this very powerful feature for yourself in the Magento Demo.
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