Magento Partners Program – We’re Going For Gold!
Here at The Pixel, we’re currently finalising the process of obtaining our Magento Gold Partner license. Some of our regular visitors to the site and current clients will know that we’ve been a Silver Partner for the past two years or so – one thing we can assure you is that our high quality of [...]
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Our good fortune so far this New Year continued today as Wholesale Boutique became The Pixel’s latest new client. The US retailer of personalised bags and jewellery was in the market for a new web-based solution and sought us out to quarterback the project. We’ll be building a new Wholesale Boutique site around a Magento [...]
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Expert fly fishing and outdoor hunting specialists, Farlows and Sportfish have joined The Pixel as our first new clients of 2012. While both sites currently utilise a custom-built web platform for online sales, their parent company was eager to pursue Magento integration for the benefits of open source development that it offers. Operating out of [...]
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The Modules “Simple Google Shopping allows you to export in a few minutes a valid and well structured data flow of your products from your Magento web-site to your Google Merchant account.” “With Simple Configurable Products, the price for configurable products is taken directly from the associated simple products rather than the configurable product itself.” [...]
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A Fire-BUG During my recent development on a client’s website I bumped into a problem where some of the javascript code i wrote was not processed at all in Firefox when I had the Firebug developer tool open. It left me baffled for a few minutes and in this special case my way of debugging [...]
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The task: Display details of products with a specific value of certain attribute. The solution: At this point we assume that you have set up a new attribute, added it to the appropriate attribute set and set the desired values for the appropriate products. In our example the attribute identifier is skin_type, the attribute type [...]
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The task: Extend the admin interface, more explicitly the System->Configuration->Web section by adding a group of fields to save mobile interface details. The solution: For the purpose of this tutorial we assume that you have your own module created, enabled and it is runs as it should. First we extend the admin interface by adding [...]
Click here to read the full article.The Newest and Best Magento Development
We thought we’d highlight some of the newest and best Magento development, as featured on the official Magento Case Study website. You might spot one that we have an invested interest in . http://www.bludot.com/ BluDot have utilised Magento’s easily customisable product displays and ERP capabilities to suit their inventive furniture retailing website down to a [...]
Click here to read the full article.Magento Modules: Why not add a Magento Wiki?
Wikis are becoming an increasingly important part of web content, with more and more businesses requiring and demanding their installation from developers. Kind of know, but don’t entirely know exactly what they are? Everyone’s heard of Wikipedia which has become one the biggest information stores in the world. “The name “Wikipedia” is a portmanteau of [...]
Click here to read the full article.Update: Magento Version 1.4.2
Following the recent update of Magento Community to version 1.4.2 (live as of end of 2010), there are a few interesting features to be found, the most interesting you can find about below. Favicon A dead give away when launching a new Magento site the the favicon (website icon) in the URL bar of the [...]
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