Problem with Magento not able to download/install extensions
Not sure if it’s just me. But for every Magento development done, whenever I upload my code to the production server, the code would run fine, but when it comes to installing extensions using Magento...
View ArticlePerformance tuning for Magento
For the most part, I have used WAMP on Windows XP for development and used Simple Helix for magento hosting; they really do make Magento run fast on their server. Recently working on a project in which...
View ArticleDigg Clone — PLIGG — Showcasing News.52my.Info
Look around on the net and search for a digg-like software to create a social voting news platform, you will most likely find Pligg as the popular choice of open source software that does pretty much...
View ArticleTickon.com for Sale
We are selling our e-commerce web site: www.tickon.com. Why are we selling? Becuase we have more projects to work on, and we simply don’t have time to operate the business side of the e-commerce site,...
View ArticleMagento Notes — Adding Company Name, Address, Phone in Registration Form
This is a simple yet practical fix that, for some reason, Magento never got around to enabling upto Magento Version 1.3.2.3. Basically by default the Magento registration form only requires you to...
View ArticleMagento Notes — Customizing the RSS Feed that Magento Outputs
One of the marketing strategy employed by many e-commerce sits is to provide product feeds (RSS) to have them be displayed in an affiliate or partner blog or content-driven web sites. I’ve recently...
View ArticleJust launched CarGear.com using NOPCommerce
NopCommerce (www.nopcommerce.com) is the closest thing to Magento except that it runs on Microsoft’s .NET instead of the LAMP stack. It’s still a long way to go for NOP to catch up with where Magento...
View ArticleMagento Notes – Quick way to update pricing for all products
Had a need to increase pricing for ALL products in the Magento store by $5.00, below is the script that I ran directly in phpadmin that takes care of this: UPDATE catalog_product_entity_decimal val SET...
View ArticleMagento Notes – Add gift wrap service at checkout
Searched high and low for a way to add gift-wrap service, and came across an excellent solution on the Magento forum. Here’s the link: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/176424/P0/
View ArticleMagento Notes — Bulk update of Product tax class
Just as we are ready to go live on one of my client’s web site, we started to test the tax rules just to make sure that taxes would apply properly. To our surprise, it DIDN’T! After verifying the tax...
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