Sportfish Re-Design Complete!
Sportfish Re-Design Complete!
We’ve just finished our Magento re-design for Sportfish (@sportfishuk), which we’ve been working on since the fly fishing specialists joined us as new clients at the start of the year. Last week was a hub of activity at the office as we debugged the final build of the re-design on a staging site that then [...]
Click here to read the full article.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 [...]
Click here to read the full article.Letter from America – Wholesale Boutique becomes our latest new client
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 [...]
Click here to read the full article.The Pixel welcomes new clients, Farlows and Sportfish
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 [...]
Click here to read the full article.A look back at ‘A Lidl Bit of Magic’
In the run-up to Christmas last year, we undertook one of our most ambitious projects of the year for European supermarket giant, Lidl. The remit was to produce a web-based hub for Lidl’s Christmas publicity run in the UK under the title, ‘A Lidl Bit of Magic’. This would include a film shoot with TV [...]
Click here to read the full article.Happy New Year, One And All!
Here at The Pixel we’d like to take this opportunity to pass on our happiest of New Year’s greetings to all of our clients, blog readers, and fellow Magento developers. We hope you had a great break over the holidays and that this New Year will bring plenty of fresh business opportunities for your company. [...]
Click here to read the full article.Product price and Google product search
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.” [...]
Click here to read the full article.Javascript good-to-knows
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 [...]
Click here to read the full article.How to carve a Halloween Magento Pumpkin
Seeing as we were one of the sponsors of Meet Magento UK last week, and it’s Halloween today, I thought why not mix the two together? So I’ve created this tutorial ‘How to carve a Halloween Magento Pumpkin’. Building your template 1. In order to carve the Magento logo accurately, you’ll need a template. I [...]
Click here to read the full article.Load products by attribute
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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