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Magento for Designers: Optimization

Magento for Designers: Optimization

on Nov 3rd 2010 with 26 comments

Magento is a stunningly powerful e-commerce platform. In this miniseries, we’ll learn how to get started with the platform, getting to know the terminologies, setting up a store and all related aspects of it and finally learn how to customize it to make it our very own.

In this final part, we’ll be tackling one of the biggest complaints people have with Magento: its performance. We’ll review a number of different methods you could apply to significantly boost the platform. Excited? Let’s get started!

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This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Magento for Designers Session
Magento for Designers: Part 4

Magento for Designers: Part 4

on May 28th 2010 with 52 comments

Magento is a stunningly powerful e-commerce platform. In this miniseries, we’ll learn how to get started with the platform, getting to know the terminologies, setting up a store and all related aspects of it and finally learn how to customize it to make it our very own.

In this fourth part, we’ll lay the groundwork for our theme which we’ll be building completely from scratch. Excited? Let’s get started!

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This entry is part 4 of 8 in the Magento for Designers Session
Getting Started With Magento
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Easy E-Commerce With Magento

on Jul 2nd 2009 with 161 comments

Hundreds of ecommerce systems exist, but very few can match the power of Magento. In this screencast, I’ll demonstrate how to download and install Magento to a local host, configure some of the site options, and create simple and configurable products and categories for our test e-commerce site.

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Getting Started with Magento Ecommerce!

Getting Started with Magento Ecommerce!

on Apr 8th 2009 with 145 comments

Magento is the next generation of eCommerce! It is incredibly well architectured, fully flexible, scalable, and fun to work with. If you’ve ever thought about creating an online shop, Magento is your choice! Today we are going to install it locally with XAMPP Lite and review the essentials.

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Creating a PayPal Payment Form

on Apr 22nd 2008 with 174 comments

Although it can have some issues, PayPal does provide a very simple way to take payments on a website. And with a little tweaking you can easily turn a PayPal “Buy Now” button into a form where the user specifies how much they’d like to pay and what they are paying for.

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