April 30, 2012
Blog Archives
New Magento Book Coming in May
After months of diligent work, my book, Mastering Magento, is scheduled for publication next month from Packt Publishing, one of the world’s largest publishers of computer-related books. This Magento book is aimed at all levels of users, especially Magento users who want to truly understand the power of the Magento platform.
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Fix for Passing Magento Session IDs
We often use shared SSL’s when building e-commerce sites. It’s a convenient way of hosting multiple stores without having to purchase separate SSL certificates for each site. Most of our e-commerce clients manage multiple stores within a single Magento or OpenCart installation. Recently, we found a problem with Magento where the customer’s session ID was … Continue Reading
PayPal and Offline Shopping
This week, PayPal gave merchants a sneak peak at their new payment technologies. Scott Thompson, President of PayPal stated, “the future is about creating real consumer choice, flexibility and control over how people shop and pay.” The illustration below is a summary of the new products, services and capabilities that were demonstrated. In advance of their X.commerce … Continue Reading
Understanding Magento Cron Jobs
Apparently many Magneto developers are a bit confused about how Magento cron jobs work. It’s easy to know why. In the Magento backend, there’s a Cron configuration screen where you can set the frequency at which cron schedules are to be processed, under System > Configuration > System. Many are under the impression that configuring … Continue Reading
5 Great OpenCart 1.5 Themes
Despite the huge number of OpenCart powered websites in existance, theme designers have generally paid little attention to creating vibrant, innovative designs for OpenCart. It’s difficult to explain, given the fact that OpenCart’s theme architecture is fairly easy to navigate, and certainly easier to work with than some other platforms, like Magento. Fortunately, the good … Continue Reading
MassMarine.com
For years, MassMarine.com existed only as an almost forgotten e-commerce website. Most of the products on the site had not been updated in years, with pricing out of sync with current costs. Product availability was also out of date. If a website could have cobwebs, this one did. Along came American Web Properties, rescuing MassMarine.com … Continue Reading
Aviation Logs Pilot Shop
One of two new niche sites from American Web Properties, a novusweb client, AviationLogs.com focuses on selling logbooks, avionics, equipment and supplies to aviators, both general and commercial. The new site built and maintained by novusweb, via our NovuStart ESP™ service, was completely re-tooled from the one acquired by AWP. Using a modified Magento installation, … Continue Reading
New NovuStart ESP™ Websites
novusweb launches two new Magento driven e-commerce websites: AviationLogs.com and MassMarine.com. Both sites are owned by the same client, American Web Properties and were replacements for out-dated, custom-built sites operating from a server in the previous owner’s basement. AviationLogs.com is devoted to pilots, with over 3,500 unique product offerings, or SKUs. MassMarine.com offers over 14,700 electronics, navigation … Continue Reading
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New Magento Book Coming in May
After months of diligent work, my book, Mastering Magento, is scheduled for publication next month from Packt Publishing, one of … Continue Reading
