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Magento: Up and Running – New on Premium
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Magento: Up and Running – New on Premium

Getting started with Magento themes is far more intimidating than it needs to be. This tutorial will get you familiar with Magento’s theming file structure, how Magento makes your life easier with a theme fallback system, and how to use layout configuration files.

Become a Premium member to read this tutorial, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts.

Magento for Designers: Optimization

Magento for Designers: Optimization

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!


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

Magento for Designers: Part 4

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!


This entry is part 4 of 8 in the Magento for Designers Session
10 Kick-Ass Magento Templates

10 Kick-Ass Magento Templates

I’m proud to announce that ThemeForest is now selling Magento eCommerce templates at cheap prices that any business or individual can afford. We’ve launched with thirty-five awesome Magento templates, but we’re just scratching the surface. By the end of the year, ThemeForest will be the premier location for buying and selling Magento templates! Here are some of the best that we’ve launched with.

Magento for Designers: Part 2

Magento for Designers: Part 2

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 how to customize it to make it our very own.

In this second part, we’ll focus on short, simple steps to get your Magento store from installed to ready for deployment, which will cover setting up your products, product categories, taxes, shipping, payment gateways and much more! Excited? Let’s get started!


This entry is part 2 of 8 in the Magento for Designers Session
How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery

How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery

CodeIgniter is an open source PHP web application framework with a lot of features. Recently, thanks to the latest update, a new feature was added to this framework, called the Cart Class. In this tutorial, we’re going to take advantage of this new class, and write a shopping cart system, with a touch of jQuery added in.

Getting Started With Magento
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Easy E-Commerce With Magento

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.

Getting Started with Magento Ecommerce!

Getting Started with Magento Ecommerce!

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.