Saturday, July 25, 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Magento is an open-source full of features eCommerce platform that provides online merchants with unexampled flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store.
For launching great online store all you need is hosting, domain and Magento script with great exclusive theme.
Here are the best and popular Premium Magento Themes.
The premium Magento themes features very easy to use and to customize.
a simple navigation that will allow you to customize the colors very easily with a clean background.
1. Emphasis - Multipurpose Responsive Magento Theme
2. UX Pearlwhite | Fast Responsive Magento Theme
3. Le-Santana - Responsive & Retina Ready Magento
4. JM Crafts - Responsive theme for Crafts store
Like no other Magento themes before, Crafts is designed especially for handmade products. Presenting big product images in grid view with some little lines of product information with the graceful pastel gamut, this theme gently grabs viewers’ attention as it shows off your pieces of art in the most artistic manner.
In all, Crafts design is a mixture of effective white space, trending pastel gamut, sleek grid view along with willowy lines and texts.
5. JM Siotis - Street-style Responsive Magento WP Theme
Looking for a hip-hop or street style fashion store? Siotis is here to answer your call.
Siotis now comes with 6 exciting extensions including: Mega Menu, Slideshow2, Products slider, Product, Quick Buy and the awesome Basetheme. This means you now have unlimited color choices for your site with much less effort spent on customization.
Siotis is a responsive template with the extra bonus of an Off-Canvas menu for mobile. All these amazing features are blended together in Siotis – your powerful, stylish and attractive Responsive Magento Fashion Theme.
Developed by us, UberTheme.com, Siotis is the first Responsive Magento themewhich supports off-canvas navigation used in mobile and tablet devices. The theme also comes with the latest QuickBuy module, which supports transitions and effects developed specially for this theme only. Not to mention the Mega menu with featured products, Basetheme for easy customization and an auto-updated shopping cart feature this theme is loaded with.
6. Awesome: The Multipurpose Magento Theme
Awesome is the nextgen multipurpose Magento theme brought to you by Red Factory! This theme is easy to set up thanks to an installation wizard. Set up your website in minutes! We’ve set up four different demos for you to explore. You can choose any of these layouts or any combination you like. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
7. Responsive Magento Theme - Gala VineYar
Warmth, luxury and peerage are what people thinks of Gala Vineyard. It is specially designed to keep the themes still clean and neat while its spirit remains. Basic black and white emphasize strong personalities of a wine/alcohol shop even more than anything. However, you store need other colors to make business image congruent, you just need to us Theme Variation Settings that contains unlimited colors.
A large slideshow with beautiful 3D effects and transitions will brings such an impressive visual that is beyond your imagination. All categories will be logically stored with Mega Menu, also, including Mega Menu Builder, you can add many levels and columns as you wish. Our designers always want to deliver the best shopping solution. Responsive Web Design will automatically resize at different resolutions. It makes sure all devices can comfortably load your site and has the best appearance on the devices.
8. eVoque - Premium Responsive Magento Theme
We are proud to present customers our new magento theme – Evoque. Our development experience allowed us to provide innovative product. Exclusive layout, speed, nonstandard solutions will be eyecatching for the customers. Take a look and enjoy using our theme.
9. Book Store Magento Themes
Book Store magento template is the Books Store Online Magento Template for magento 1.5, magento 1.6 and magento 1.7. It’s fresh and clean design. You can easy customize template.
We provide full package with Latest Magento version + Full MA extensions + Sample database after installed like live demo site. We provide Free Extensions include package
10. Ves Camera Responsive Theme
We would like to introduce our responsive Magento Theme – Ves Camera. The Magento theme are specific designed for shop of Camera, mobile and Hi-tech. Based on Leo Framework – a powerful responsive Magento framework, Leo Camera is a totally responsive design, it looks perfect in every devices, from destop, to mobile or tablet.
It comes with 5 amazing themes color and flexible layout and Mega Menu Supported. With VesTheme Control Module let you easy controlling Template Direction, Changing Theme, Template Width via updating few configuration without hacking, customizing code.
11. Petsy Shop Responsive Magento Theme
Compatibility: magento 1.5.x.x, magento 1.6.x.x, magento 1.7.x.x, magento 1.8.x.x We supply a full help with our products and after purchase – support to all our customers. If you are interested in our fully installation you can find detailed information on our website
12. Cranberries - Responsive & Retina Magento Themes
Cranberries – is a premium responsive and retina ready magento theme suitable for any kind of store. Compatible with Magento:1.7.x.x (1.7.0.0, 1.7.0.1, 1.7.0.2)
13. SimpleGreat – Premium Responsive Magento theme!
SimpleGreat is a universal multipurpose 100% responsive Magento theme with built-in Blog for any kind of shop with modern design, built-in Revolution slider (70$ value!) and powerful backend and it’s created with using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 features. Admin panel with easy navigation and dozens of configuration options allows you to change every thing in theme. You can manage colors of theme elements, select 500+ amazing fonts, apply 200+ pattern backgrounds and setup different theme settings and effects!
14. Trego - Premium Responsive Magento Theme
We provide installation service, contact us if you’re a Magento newbie! Will reply within 2 hrs.
Trego is a Premium Responsive Magento theme with advanced admin module. It’s extremely customizable, easy to use and fully responsive. Suitable for every type of store. Great as a starting point for your custom projects. This magento theme includes several magento extensions including magento free blog and ajax price slider that will help you improve your sales. On the main page you can quickly show their best products and brands. Trego is extremely beautiful on mobile devices. EternalFriend provides only Premium Magento products, guarantee regular update and top quality speed.
15. Dramming - Responsive Magento Themes
Full package with Latest Magento version + Full MA extensions + Sample database after installed like live demo site. We provide Free Extensions include package
16. Apparel and Clothes Magento Template
Apparel Magento Theme is dedicated for apparel and clothes stores. With some free extensions and customization apparel magento theme is dedicated for all apparel and clothes stores.
WORKS WITH : Magento 1.5.0.1, 1.5.1, 1.6.0.0, 1.6.2.0, 1.7.0.0 , 1.7.0.2, 1.8.0.0
17. MT Studio : Fluid Responsive Magento Theme
18. Venedor - Premium Responsive Magento Theme
19. Kassidi - Magento theme
20. Responsive Magento Theme - Stylixx Asian Fashion
21. Fortis - Responsive Magento Theme
22. HOLIDAY : Premium Business Magento Theme
23. Sheets Magento Commerce Theme
24. Avanti Responsive Magento Theme
25. iStore2 Magento Theme
26. DecoStore - Premium Magento Theme
27. BUYSHOP - Premium Responsive Retina Magento theme
28. Dresscode - Responsive Magento Theme
29. Santana Fashion Store
30. Acumen - The Highly Extensible Magento Theme
31. Boho Deux Magento Theme
32. Apparel Store
33. Dashing Magento
34. Madame - Responsive Fashion Store Magento Theme
35. Sanorita - Responsive Magento Theme
36. BeautyShop – Premium Responsive Magento theme!
37. Gnarly Magento Theme
38. Shopper - Magento Theme, Responsive & Retina Ready
39. CeraShop Responsive Magento Theme
40. Fancy - Clothing Magento Theme
41. Apparel Store Magento theme
42. Perfectum – Premium Responsive Magento theme
43. ClassiShop Magento Template
44. Milano - Responsive Magento Theme + Blog Extension
45. Ultimo - Fluid Responsive Magento Theme
46. Home Zone Magento Theme
47. Fashion Zone Magento Theme
48. Responsive Magento Theme - Gala Mr.Handsome
49. Caramel Store
For launching great online store all you need is hosting, domain and Magento script with great exclusive theme.
Here are the best and popular Premium Magento Themes.
The premium Magento themes features very easy to use and to customize.
a simple navigation that will allow you to customize the colors very easily with a clean background.
1. Emphasis - Multipurpose Responsive Magento Theme
2. UX Pearlwhite | Fast Responsive Magento Theme
3. Le-Santana - Responsive & Retina Ready Magento
4. JM Crafts - Responsive theme for Crafts store
Like no other Magento themes before, Crafts is designed especially for handmade products. Presenting big product images in grid view with some little lines of product information with the graceful pastel gamut, this theme gently grabs viewers’ attention as it shows off your pieces of art in the most artistic manner.
In all, Crafts design is a mixture of effective white space, trending pastel gamut, sleek grid view along with willowy lines and texts.
5. JM Siotis - Street-style Responsive Magento WP Theme
Looking for a hip-hop or street style fashion store? Siotis is here to answer your call.
Siotis now comes with 6 exciting extensions including: Mega Menu, Slideshow2, Products slider, Product, Quick Buy and the awesome Basetheme. This means you now have unlimited color choices for your site with much less effort spent on customization.
Siotis is a responsive template with the extra bonus of an Off-Canvas menu for mobile. All these amazing features are blended together in Siotis – your powerful, stylish and attractive Responsive Magento Fashion Theme.
Developed by us, UberTheme.com, Siotis is the first Responsive Magento themewhich supports off-canvas navigation used in mobile and tablet devices. The theme also comes with the latest QuickBuy module, which supports transitions and effects developed specially for this theme only. Not to mention the Mega menu with featured products, Basetheme for easy customization and an auto-updated shopping cart feature this theme is loaded with.
6. Awesome: The Multipurpose Magento Theme
Awesome is the nextgen multipurpose Magento theme brought to you by Red Factory! This theme is easy to set up thanks to an installation wizard. Set up your website in minutes! We’ve set up four different demos for you to explore. You can choose any of these layouts or any combination you like. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
7. Responsive Magento Theme - Gala VineYar
Warmth, luxury and peerage are what people thinks of Gala Vineyard. It is specially designed to keep the themes still clean and neat while its spirit remains. Basic black and white emphasize strong personalities of a wine/alcohol shop even more than anything. However, you store need other colors to make business image congruent, you just need to us Theme Variation Settings that contains unlimited colors.
A large slideshow with beautiful 3D effects and transitions will brings such an impressive visual that is beyond your imagination. All categories will be logically stored with Mega Menu, also, including Mega Menu Builder, you can add many levels and columns as you wish. Our designers always want to deliver the best shopping solution. Responsive Web Design will automatically resize at different resolutions. It makes sure all devices can comfortably load your site and has the best appearance on the devices.
8. eVoque - Premium Responsive Magento Theme
We are proud to present customers our new magento theme – Evoque. Our development experience allowed us to provide innovative product. Exclusive layout, speed, nonstandard solutions will be eyecatching for the customers. Take a look and enjoy using our theme.
9. Book Store Magento Themes
Book Store magento template is the Books Store Online Magento Template for magento 1.5, magento 1.6 and magento 1.7. It’s fresh and clean design. You can easy customize template.
We provide full package with Latest Magento version + Full MA extensions + Sample database after installed like live demo site. We provide Free Extensions include package
10. Ves Camera Responsive Theme
We would like to introduce our responsive Magento Theme – Ves Camera. The Magento theme are specific designed for shop of Camera, mobile and Hi-tech. Based on Leo Framework – a powerful responsive Magento framework, Leo Camera is a totally responsive design, it looks perfect in every devices, from destop, to mobile or tablet.
It comes with 5 amazing themes color and flexible layout and Mega Menu Supported. With VesTheme Control Module let you easy controlling Template Direction, Changing Theme, Template Width via updating few configuration without hacking, customizing code.
11. Petsy Shop Responsive Magento Theme
Compatibility: magento 1.5.x.x, magento 1.6.x.x, magento 1.7.x.x, magento 1.8.x.x We supply a full help with our products and after purchase – support to all our customers. If you are interested in our fully installation you can find detailed information on our website
12. Cranberries - Responsive & Retina Magento Themes
Cranberries – is a premium responsive and retina ready magento theme suitable for any kind of store. Compatible with Magento:1.7.x.x (1.7.0.0, 1.7.0.1, 1.7.0.2)
13. SimpleGreat – Premium Responsive Magento theme!
SimpleGreat is a universal multipurpose 100% responsive Magento theme with built-in Blog for any kind of shop with modern design, built-in Revolution slider (70$ value!) and powerful backend and it’s created with using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 features. Admin panel with easy navigation and dozens of configuration options allows you to change every thing in theme. You can manage colors of theme elements, select 500+ amazing fonts, apply 200+ pattern backgrounds and setup different theme settings and effects!
14. Trego - Premium Responsive Magento Theme
We provide installation service, contact us if you’re a Magento newbie! Will reply within 2 hrs.
Trego is a Premium Responsive Magento theme with advanced admin module. It’s extremely customizable, easy to use and fully responsive. Suitable for every type of store. Great as a starting point for your custom projects. This magento theme includes several magento extensions including magento free blog and ajax price slider that will help you improve your sales. On the main page you can quickly show their best products and brands. Trego is extremely beautiful on mobile devices. EternalFriend provides only Premium Magento products, guarantee regular update and top quality speed.
15. Dramming - Responsive Magento Themes
Full package with Latest Magento version + Full MA extensions + Sample database after installed like live demo site. We provide Free Extensions include package
16. Apparel and Clothes Magento Template
Apparel Magento Theme is dedicated for apparel and clothes stores. With some free extensions and customization apparel magento theme is dedicated for all apparel and clothes stores.
WORKS WITH : Magento 1.5.0.1, 1.5.1, 1.6.0.0, 1.6.2.0, 1.7.0.0 , 1.7.0.2, 1.8.0.0
17. MT Studio : Fluid Responsive Magento Theme
18. Venedor - Premium Responsive Magento Theme
19. Kassidi - Magento theme
20. Responsive Magento Theme - Stylixx Asian Fashion
21. Fortis - Responsive Magento Theme
22. HOLIDAY : Premium Business Magento Theme
23. Sheets Magento Commerce Theme
24. Avanti Responsive Magento Theme
25. iStore2 Magento Theme
26. DecoStore - Premium Magento Theme
27. BUYSHOP - Premium Responsive Retina Magento theme
28. Dresscode - Responsive Magento Theme
29. Santana Fashion Store
30. Acumen - The Highly Extensible Magento Theme
31. Boho Deux Magento Theme
32. Apparel Store
33. Dashing Magento
34. Madame - Responsive Fashion Store Magento Theme
35. Sanorita - Responsive Magento Theme
36. BeautyShop – Premium Responsive Magento theme!
37. Gnarly Magento Theme
38. Shopper - Magento Theme, Responsive & Retina Ready
39. CeraShop Responsive Magento Theme
40. Fancy - Clothing Magento Theme
41. Apparel Store Magento theme
42. Perfectum – Premium Responsive Magento theme
43. ClassiShop Magento Template
44. Milano - Responsive Magento Theme + Blog Extension
45. Ultimo - Fluid Responsive Magento Theme
46. Home Zone Magento Theme
47. Fashion Zone Magento Theme
48. Responsive Magento Theme - Gala Mr.Handsome
49. Caramel Store
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Although still in #development phase, Magento 2 comes with a distinctive set of changed/improved frontend approaches compared to its predecessor Magento 1.X. The big difference is that frontend is now updated with newer technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
There are also significant changes/improvements to overall layout manipulation, file structure and a brand new introduction to Magento UI library heavily based on LESS preprocessor with built in compiler.
One of the main goals besides performance and scalability was to serve RWD out of the box. In this article I’ll try to cover some of the main differences, dive into development and demonstrate some practical examples.
There are also significant changes/improvements to overall layout manipulation, file structure and a brand new introduction to Magento UI library heavily based on LESS preprocessor with built in compiler.
One of the main goals besides performance and scalability was to serve RWD out of the box. In this article I’ll try to cover some of the main differences, dive into development and demonstrate some practical examples.
Theme workflow changes
When creating a new theme theme_root_dir/theme.xml file is required to actually initialize it. There are a couple of other options to be taken into account as well. Add placeholder image for preview in administration, configure its parent theme, declare theme version etc. It’s quite similar approach to the one used in the newest 1.X versions.
One of the first changes I’ve noticed when starting to tackle Magento 2 was certainly the removal of skin directory. Everything is organized directly under the app structure.
Another big change is that every module has its own VIEW directory where all module-specific template, layout, js, and css/less files are stored. This is a better approach and certainly it will be beneficial for module developers. All visual content will be stored directly within the module separating it from Magento core.
What does it mean for us fronted developers?
It means that structure inside app/design/frontend/vendorName/newTheme/ is no longer divided into layout and template directories. Instead we need to include module directory and its complete hierarchy to override default directory structure.
For example, if the plan is to change something in 1column.phtml, it’s required to follow full directory hierarchy for a module Magento_Theme (this was a part of the page directory in 1.X versions).
Theming inheritance is now completely redesigned to support unlimited fallbacks and app/design/frontend/base/default directory is no longer included. From the documentation provided so far, the recommended approach is to fallback to blank theme as a starting point.
At the time of writing this article I was not in a position to properly test other options except to falling back to blank, but it seems this approach is beneficial only for the projects requiring slight styling modifications/updates. From custom development perspective, in some cases where development differs very much from default settings it might produce an impact on the performance.
Theme declaring process is pretty much the same as in previous 1.X versions except that now it’s possible to create a new theme from administration.
Layout updates/improvements
When it comes down to layout manipulation there are some really cool and interesting new improvements.
Before diving into practical examples it’s important to mention that layout files are now divided into smaller parts. Practically explained — what once was a layout handle now is a separate file.
Probably the intention was to simplify the maintenance.
Magento 2 introduces the whole new concept for product/media image resizing actions right from the layout. Layout file view.xml is responsible and it needs to be placed under app/design/frontend/vendorName/newTheme/etc/ directory. Here is an example of resizing product catalog images in action.
Although I presume that the main goal was to simplify actual resizing process for developers, it will certainly fail under majority of responsive design situations. For example, we don’t want to serve big images for smartphone users on edge connection. Resizing from template files offered a better way to serve out multiple sources for different end user profiles. Right now inspecting a blank theme I only see a situation with just scaling images down in html.
One of the great and more than welcome changes is an introduction of a container wrapper, successor to a core/text_list block type which served the role of a structural block in the previous versions of the system. What is really interesting is a possibility to pass attributes like htmlTag, htmlClass, htmlId directly from layout files.
My personal favorite is move method introduction. It’s a sort of refined action method set/unsetChild but now the process is much more intuitive. For example, if we need to insert source block1 into destination block2 this is the way how we can do it:
It automatically makes source block1 a child of a destination block 2.
It’s important to mention that Magento 2 offers a system validation for XML files using xml schemas for individual and merged layout files.
Magento UI library introduction
Magento 2 offers a complete UI library build up on LESS to match the specific system requirements. Reason for choosing LESS over other pre-processors is because Magento 2 comes with internal compiler to compile CSS directly from PHP. This will, according to Magento team, speed up development and allow developers to focus just on file editing/production while the system covers all the hassle with compiling etc.
However, this, of course, is not the only option to go with. This approach can be ignored and focus can be set on manually compiling with SASS or even writing down pure CSS.
UI Library itself provide tons of mixins (vertical rhythm,@font-face .etc) and a huge set of predefined variables to make the process more intuitive and less demanding for a fronted developer. Does it really accomplish that?
Let’s see some practical examples following the recommended approach.
Magento UI library is located under store_root_dir/lib/web/css/source/lib
Element structure is quite in a way how I configured my own SASS files while dealing with Magento 1.X. I found it quite familiar. smile emoticon
Now let’s see how can we extend some of the files and its mixins etc. To import UI library to our theme it’s required to call/import lib.less file into styles.less which is default less file for a theme.
@import “source/lib/lib.less"
It’s impossible to explain all variations and possibilities in one article so my focus will stay on a few practical examples to encourage you to check it out on your own if you didn’t do it already.
Let’s say that we want to extend predefined @font-face mixin to include our own font to the site. Open Sans is already included by default. So let’s replace it with our own Lovelo Black. Let’s check default mixin for @font-face under the store_root_dir/lib/web/css/source/lib/typography.less
Pretty much straightforward, required parameters are @family-name and @font-path.
What we need to do now is to extend default typography.less. We’ll accomplish that by copying file to our theme directory. Here is an example of theme.less file after including typography.less
Once the procedure is completed it’s time to extend @font-face mixin to suit our needs.
And that’s it. We are now successfully extended UI Library @font-face predefined mixin. smile emoticon
Magento UI Library certainly provides a lot of powerful material and ideas in general, especially for projects that require more of a skinning type approach. On the other hand, I found it quite overcomplicated in some occasions, especially for complex custom responsive projects that pretty much differ from default layout architecture.
For example, the entire responsive construction is relying on 3 predefined variables @tablet @ desktop @mobile but even as it may be good for a starting point, it’s certainly not a fully scaled solution. Responsive design is all about content while this reminded me more of an adaptive approach with few predefined pixel based queries. Although the fact is that we can always upgrade and extend the system. After all, we can even avoid it altogether and start building our own architecture powered with SASS instead. We’ll certainly experiment with other approaches in the near future.
jQuery integration is a topic of its own and it’s too complex for this article so I’m planning to write another one in the future.
Conclusion
It’s great to see that the new platform is finally shaping up. Now when the potential launch dates are known, it’s even more interesting. Although still in development phase, Magento 2 is a substantially improved system when it comes to frontend development, compared to its predecessor. With all new technologies included, improved architecture and workflow, frontend development now requires by far more professional approach than before.
A small idea a few years back took on a life of its own as a Magento testing service at magetesting.com. The Magento community of #developers, business owners and potential Magento customers have always had the same issue of wanting to get multiple extensions to work together. This problem can further complicated when custom code is added to the site. We hope Mage Testing will help solve all those problems.
This tool is simple, beautiful and intuitive for anyone to use. With a few clicks you can setup a demo Magento store with or without sample products in minutes. By entering your live store information you can have a full development site in about an hour. Surf through a select group of great premium extensions from aheadWorks and Rocket Web and many free extensions from the Magento community at large. One-click install multiple extensions to test, play and learn how they interact with each other. You can test any of the paid extensions in a demo or a copy of your own store before you commit to buying them.
If any problems come up, you'll notice Mage Testing's unique strength as you set out to solve them. We have partnered with Papertrail for searching through all Magento logs, server logs and even extension installer logs all in a slick, real-time web based interface. We have integrated version control and roll back functionality. If you install an extension and decide you don't like it, just click the roll back button and start over. Both your code and database is automatically restored to the point before you installed the extension.
If you have signed up for Magento Sandbox Exploration or if you purchase any extension, you will be able to edit any code on the site manually, take advantage of the integrated version control and with a couple clicks, prepare an installer archive to deploy code changes to your live site. We've seen many store owners over the years without a development site for their Magento store.
Mage Testing is the perfect place to safely test out new Magento functionality before taking the risk of having to close a live store and scramble to fix issues that inevitability occur when changes are not tested.
Mage Testing has clear benefits for all types of Magento users. It's a valuable safety net for store owners who are trying to run their own business. And it's a powerful tool for developers looking to make life easier. We use Mage Testing everyday to test new functionality and extensions.
This tool is simple, beautiful and intuitive for anyone to use. With a few clicks you can setup a demo Magento store with or without sample products in minutes. By entering your live store information you can have a full development site in about an hour. Surf through a select group of great premium extensions from aheadWorks and Rocket Web and many free extensions from the Magento community at large. One-click install multiple extensions to test, play and learn how they interact with each other. You can test any of the paid extensions in a demo or a copy of your own store before you commit to buying them.
If any problems come up, you'll notice Mage Testing's unique strength as you set out to solve them. We have partnered with Papertrail for searching through all Magento logs, server logs and even extension installer logs all in a slick, real-time web based interface. We have integrated version control and roll back functionality. If you install an extension and decide you don't like it, just click the roll back button and start over. Both your code and database is automatically restored to the point before you installed the extension.
If you have signed up for Magento Sandbox Exploration or if you purchase any extension, you will be able to edit any code on the site manually, take advantage of the integrated version control and with a couple clicks, prepare an installer archive to deploy code changes to your live site. We've seen many store owners over the years without a development site for their Magento store.
Mage Testing is the perfect place to safely test out new Magento functionality before taking the risk of having to close a live store and scramble to fix issues that inevitability occur when changes are not tested.
Mage Testing has clear benefits for all types of Magento users. It's a valuable safety net for store owners who are trying to run their own business. And it's a powerful tool for developers looking to make life easier. We use Mage Testing everyday to test new functionality and extensions.
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Every industry operates within a defined set of parameters and measurements. These parameters identify those companies that are performing at a basic level and those that have risen to the top of their game.
Market share is usually the first thing that comes to mind. From a purely financial perspective, the companies with the greatest market share are often perceived t
To be the ones that provide the most value. After all, “one billion customers can’t be wrong” right?
However, market share is often difficult to measure in this niched-up world and, if measured, it would fail to tell the whole story. However, when you examine an industry and find that a company is respected by those that operate within the same space…well, now you have something.
In the development world, Technology Partners are born when both companies feel confident that they align in terms of philosophy and ability. It is the highest compliment one business can pay another; to publicly declare that they have investigated and researched a company and found them to be in alignment with their own mission.
Microsoft, Oracle, #Magento and Freescale have robust Technology Partner programs that bring together companies operating at the highest levels in the technology space and provide them with access to products, education and support.
Members of these communities not only gain the endorsement of these mega-giants but are also better positioned and supported to provide their clients with epic service.
Market share is usually the first thing that comes to mind. From a purely financial perspective, the companies with the greatest market share are often perceived t
To be the ones that provide the most value. After all, “one billion customers can’t be wrong” right?
However, market share is often difficult to measure in this niched-up world and, if measured, it would fail to tell the whole story. However, when you examine an industry and find that a company is respected by those that operate within the same space…well, now you have something.
In the development world, Technology Partners are born when both companies feel confident that they align in terms of philosophy and ability. It is the highest compliment one business can pay another; to publicly declare that they have investigated and researched a company and found them to be in alignment with their own mission.
Microsoft, Oracle, #Magento and Freescale have robust Technology Partner programs that bring together companies operating at the highest levels in the technology space and provide them with access to products, education and support.
Members of these communities not only gain the endorsement of these mega-giants but are also better positioned and supported to provide their clients with epic service.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Insert Update and Delete Example. Click on Below link and Download.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B68w7XMlYgC0R3hiZ3BBMmZURE0/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B68w7XMlYgC0R3hiZ3BBMmZURE0/view?usp=sharing
Changes In your Php.ini File.
upload_max_filesize = 2000M
post_max_size = 2000M
max_execution_time = 120
max_file_uploads = 7
memory_limit=128M
Monday, July 6, 2015
1) wp-admin
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Css
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Images
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Includes
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Js
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Network
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User
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Admin php file
2) Wp-content
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Plugins Ã
install all plugin listed here.
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Themesà by
default 3 theme are available 1) twentyfourtee, thirteen, twelve
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Upgrade
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Uploads
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Index.php
3) Wp-includes
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Certificates
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Css
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Fonts
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ID3
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Images
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Js
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Images
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Pomo
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SimplePie
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Text
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Class file
Saturday, July 4, 2015
The download speed of ecommerce sites has greatly improved over the
years because of the wider availability of faster Internet service. But many
retailers still struggle with making their sites run quickly.
The unfortunate truth is that retailers can design a
user-friendly site, but if it takes time to load, consumers will not likely
shop there. By some accounts, even a 1-second delay can have a material impact
on revenue for online retailers.
In this article, I will explain 10 ways to increase the speed of
an ecommerce site.
1.
Reduce Size of Page
The page size in measured in kilobytes. It includes all elements
on a page — images, JavaScript, CSS. The smaller the page size, the better.
Avoid embedding big objects or images on a page; build your pages by keeping
load times in mind. Page size can be measured easily by saving the page on your
computer as a web archive folder from the browser. Then measure the size of the
folder.
Try to keep page load times to 3 seconds or less, unless your
ecommerce site requires richer graphics to generate revenue. In that instance,
find the right balance between losing shoppers due to slow load times versus
gaining customers due to richer graphics.
2.
Use a Content Delivery Network
If you have customers around the world, consider a content
delivery network. It caches the content on servers located in different parts
of the world, which reduces load times. This would help, say, a customer in
Hong Kong, who could load a page from a server in China, versus hitting the
master server in U.S.
3.
Use Caching and In-memory Technology
Utilize caching or in-memory technologies to avoid accessing a
database unnecessarily. These technologies can temporarily store in memory a
full ecommerce product catalog, all customer information, site-search indexes,
and other information, which would avoid calls on the database. The technology
utilizes the RAM available on a server and stores data in it. Since
input-output operations are typically 10 times faster on RAM than a hard disk,
this helps improve performance.
4.
Compress Data
Use Gzip or other compression software to reduce the size of the
data sent to a browser. The compression is done on the server side, before
returning data based on the client request. This requires changing server
configuration files, which takes developer expertise. Before enabling data
compression, however, make sure your shoppers do not use older browsers, such
as Internet Explorer 4, as Gzip is not compatible.
5.
Specify Image Dimensions
Specify height and width for images so that the browser can
create placeholders for the images, to load the page and the images
simultaneously. Retailers often create an image without specifying the
dimensions of the image on the page. This forces the browser to load the image
entirely before it can start another task, which takes more time.
Simple height and width attributes for each image makes the
browser understand the size of the image and it can make room for the image
while also loading other parts of the page. Additionally, automatically alter
image sizes for different types of devices – laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
6.
Optimize Platform Configuration
If you use an ecommerce platform — hosted or licensed —
determine available configurations to improve page load times. Most platforms
offer minor tweaks that can lead to significant gains. For example, the default
configuration that comes with Magento supports file compression, a content
delivery network, and other speed enhancements. A retailer’s Magento
administrator can make these platform optimizations.
7.
Use Fewer ‘Round Trips’
Minimize the number of “round trips” to the server by combining
multiple files. For example, instead of accessing multiple JavaScript files
separately, first combine them into a single file and then access the server.
This forces the browser to make one request versus making multiple trips, which
will reduce load times. There are several tools and techniques available to
help with this, such as CSS Sprites, which enables the loading of multiple
images in one request.
8.
Monitor Site Speed
Check the speed of your ecommerce site periodically to
proactively resolve issues. If a page is taking more than 3 seconds to load, it
likely needs improving. There are many tools to measure and diagnose site
speed. These include Pingdom, Yahoo’s YSlow, and Google’s PageSpeed Insights.
The examples below show the speed score of leading ecommerce sites
using Google’s PageSpeed Insights from a laptop. A score of 85 and higher means
that the site is performing well. Only Ebay appears to meet this threshold,
however, with Overstock and Amazon close behind.
9.
Avoid Redirects
Minimize redirects on your site if you have to use them. Each
redirect is a separate request to the server that increases load times. Often,
retailers continue to maintain redirects from old links to the new ones. These
redirects should be removed when most shoppers have started accessing the new
URLs directly.
10.
Use Fast Hosting Servers
Size your hosting server — i.e., RAM, hard drive storage, CPU
speed — to meet your traffic requirements. This challenge is commonly seen with
retailers that have grown, but still use a smaller server (or shared servers).
Ask
your hosting provider to size the server based on peak user load, probable
traffic growth in the next year, and memory requirements. Then set up email
alerts if the defined thresholds — such as peak traffic loads — are exceeded.
This will tell you to resize your server.
Success in the world of
fashion eCommerce can be elusive. Competition is fierce and the bottom line is
often defined by the appearance, usability, and mobility of your website.
According to Statista, 25 percent of users abandon shopping carts due to complicated
navigation, 21 percent because the ordering process takes too long, and 15
percent because the website times out.
Shopping cart abandonment is steadily increasing every year, and
the monetary losses are staggering. In fact, Business Insider reports that
about $4 trillion worth of merchandise will be abandoned in online carts in
2015.
The growing influence of mobile is an opportunity no retailer
can afford to ignore. eMarketer predicts that 25 percent of eCommerce sales
will be conducted from mobile devices by 2017. This “move” will translate into
billions of dollars, and will also continue to increase.
But these are only a few parts of the equation. Grabbing more
market share than your competitors requires a comprehensive marketing strategy.
Here are 11 tips to help you stand out from the crowd and turn your website
into a money-making machine.
1. Give Your Regular Customers Love.
According to the Harvard Business Review, it can cost anywhere
from five to twenty-five percent more to acquire new customers than to keep
existing ones. Your customer retention strategy should include loyalty programs
such as discounts for frequent customers. They will be far less likely to
browse your competitors’ sites when they know they can buy from your fashion
eCommerce store to get the quality products they’re used to at a more favorable
price.
2. Offer Customer Support.
Nothing frustrates a customer more than poor customer service.
If you make returning items difficult, customers are likely to buy from a
competitor the next time around. According to the Wall Street Journal, about a
third of all Internet transactions are returned. If possible, have customer
service agents available around-the-clock to field and resolve customer
inquiries. Great customer support can significantly shorten the sales cycle and
keep your customers coming back for more.
3. Give Customers a Reason to Come Back.
Speaking of keeping customers coming back, create and execute an
email marketing campaign that delivers a new promotion into their inbox each
week. Your fashion eCommerce store stays top-of-mind and, if different
promotions are segmented to the right customer lists, you can count on more
sales—not to mention a high ROI.
4. Use Amazing Images.
It’s no secret that successful fashion eCommerce requires
excellent photography. Most stock images simply don’t cut it anymore. Hire a
professional fashion photographer to take high quality photos of your inventory
that go beyond the simple product shot to tell your brand story. Your store
will outshine your competitors and the ROI will be well worth it.
5. Tell Stories.
Rather than just writing plain product descriptions, create
vibrant stories that help your customers better imagine owning your product.
For example, change “a gorgeous evening gown perfect for any party,” to
“Picture yourself as the ‘it’ girl at your next extravagant party by wearing
this elegant black and white dress that will make you the bell of the ball.”
6. Be Easy to Find.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is another critical component
of your fashion eCommerce strategy. After all, if it’s difficult to find your
website in the first place, how do you really expect to make sales? Work with
an SEO consultant to make sure the copy on the page is optimized for every
product, in addition to the meta tags that give search engines the information
they need to properly index your product pages.
7. Partner With the Right Businesses.
Smart partnerships are always important when it comes to
developing a successful fashion website. Build relationships with key
influencers and bloggers who can be invaluable brand ambassadors for your
eCommerce site. Start by reaching out to well-known reviewers who will lend a
quote to the quality of your product, and develop relationships with industry
websites who may allow you to post guest blogs and/or be one of their featured
fashion sites.
8. Keep It Clean.
It may go without saying, but keeping your fashion eCommerce
website clean is critical if you want visitors to continue browsing (and
hopefully click the “buy now” button). Your user interface has to be
impeccable, as does making the overall user experience as simple and
interactive as possible. With so many other options, a buyer who’s ready to
pull the trigger may leave for a competitor’s site because viewing product
specs is difficult and reviewing checkout information is confusing.
9. Be Mobile.
If you’re seeing 25-30% of your customers coming from mobile
devices like smartphones and tablets, consider embracing responsive design for
your website. They’re far more likely to browse your site on their tablet or
smartphone on-the-go, so your fashion eCommerce site needs to be easy to read
and interact with on any device.
10. Embody a Lifestyle.
The importance of differentiation in the fashion game can’t be
overstated. With so much competition online, your best bet is to focus on a
niche and spend your money on demonstrating your expertise in that niche. For
instance, in the example above, focusing on extravagant evening gowns can be
more lucrative than simply selling a wide variety of inexpensive dresses.
11. Get Pricing Right.
After
everything you’ve done to get potential customers to purchase a product, the
last thing you want to do is lose them because a competitor has a slightly
lower price. Perform meticulous research on pricing, and always offer a bonus
coupon or future promotion opportunity to give them the confidence to keep
typing in that credit card number.
Friday, July 3, 2015
Sometimes you need to choose the right eCommerce platform, it’s important to look at the best choices on the market. A good review of Magento vs. PrestaShop will help you get closer to the right choice. After comparing two of them, you will have a better idea of which one fits your needs the best. Here is the comparison of Magento and PrestaShop.
Installation:
Magento comparing with Prestashop is little bit easier to install but no to much.
Coding Framework:
For PrestaShop it is Adopted Smarty Template engine based on PHP.
And for Magento it is Adopted the Zend framework of PHP and has all the capabilities of MVC architecture.
Number Of Features:
Magento is thought to has twice as more out-of-box features as Prestashop
Compatibility:
Magento doesn’t have the compatibility issues that PrestaShop does
Customization:
Prestashop is twice easier to customize.
Technical Support:
Magento comes with a technical support team and a large community of developers, while
PrestaShop only provides a forum for support
Search Section:
In Prestashop there is fractionally better search section.
Themes Availability:
The themes on Magento platform are more variable, it provides more themes for the user than PrestaShop. But Magento can be slightly complicated and sometimes may require expert assistance to handle the UI issues.
SEO Options:
SEO options are much better on Magento. It has SEO features not found in any other eCommerce solution
Smart platforms and Smarty templates:
Both platforms are using Smarty frameworks that are written on the PHP. They generate the content like the special tags, which are processed and replaced with other code then.
Cost:
PrestaShop is an Open Source platform that can be downloaded easily from the internet. Most of its modules are readily available on the internet free of charge, and can be acquired through the PrestaShop community. PrestaShop also has paid modules available in the PrestaShop store.
Magento comes in two versions, a free Open Source and an Enterprise version. The free version includes all the necessary features to successfully setup and run a business. Merchants should only choose the Enterprise version if they need access to advanced level tracking and control features. The Enterprise version provides SOLR implementation and support.
What Do You Get With Magento?
Magento provides a lot of features and it’s an open-source eCommerce solution with plenty of flexibility. There is always possible to change the main look and the functionality. The setting of Magento is quite clear and easy to use for search engine optimization, it could be also being use as management tool.
It was founded in 2001 and recent partnership with eBay makes the system even more powerful and adds more developers to the community.
Magento gives users every kinds of modules, features and extensions. It’s suited for professional online stores and works great for anybody trying to run a fully online or partially online business.
What Do You Get With PrestaShop?
Another open-source eCommerce solution with plenty of features is PrestaShop. The basic set up is free, nevertheless templates, themes and modules will be needed to get the most out of this system. It was launched in 2007 and targets small to medium business looking to gain an online presence.
For PrestaShop 40 languages are available, but it is supported fully on English and French only. Also there is no an official support team. To use this program only PHP 5.2, MySQL 5 and a Linux, UNIX or Windows operation system are needed.
The Overall Picture
After comparing of some of the major features of Magento and PrestaShop, there is the main conclusion that they maintain different types of online stores.
Magento platform targets the medium and large business, while PrestaShop is oriented for the small to medium sized stores
Installation of the Prestashop platform needs good technical knowledge, but for Magento installation web design knowledge also is needed.
Customizing of shopping cart is easier with PrestaShop, but you don’t get the same control as you do with Magento
A larger company with a team of experts will find it easier to use Magento for all their shopping cart needs. However, smaller businesses or those without the ability to hire someone to handle it for them will find PrestaShop a more affordable option.
Conclusion
Making the decision between PrestaShop vs Magento is not easy. They are both great eCommerce solutions.
PrestaShop will perfectly fit for smaller businesses or those not looking to grow quickly. It will be user-friendly option, that does not need too much time to set everything up.
Large businesses or those who planning to grow quickly will find the features of Magento a better fit than PrestaShop. Magento is perfect for those who looking for full control over the customization and enhancement of their online store.
Magento undoubtedly is one one of the most popular and widely used shopping carts in the
#eCommerce sphere. Being a very powerful eCommerce #software #platform Magento proposes user-friendly interface and flexible, scalable eCommerce solutions for fast growing business and development. It’s the current leading web shop software in the world which mainly deals with uploading, promoting and marketing unlimited products simultaneously.
One Magento’s biggest advantage is that it provides the merchant with a full set of reports regarding the status of the online store. For businesses with an international client base, Magento offers store management in different languages under the same installation process: this means that the platform stock control only runs through the decision making of one administrator.
2008 is the year when Magento appeared to surprise with its potential and further quickly development. Since that time it deserved popularity and found fans.
- Magento is a highly adaptable platform and thus, provides the customers a flexible online shopping experience. At present, over 150,000 online stores and websites is based on Magento CMS
- In US, UK and Canada eCommerce is a bit more popular term than Magento, but in Australia, New Zealand and India Magento is searched more often than eCommerce
- In its first year, it had over 500,000 downloads of its open source Community Edition; with around 5000 daily downloads even now
- Magento Community Edition is open source eCommerce software used to power your online store and can be downloaded for free. It makes profit up to 25.3%
- More than 100 stores are added a month on Magento Enterprise Editions
The current Magento community stands at over 800,000 members and this number continues to grow at a rapid rate
- Magento platform has 6500 Extension and mounting, that are easy to install and get support on it
- Magento has over 350 solution partners and third-party developers globally
- According to a recent survey, Magento is the most popular eCommerce platform, holding a 31% market share
- 10,000 Brands and Business trust Magento Worldwide
- Used by global brands such as Nike, Samsung, North Face, Nokia, Ford
- It is found that Magento is used by 26% of the top 1 million websites
- By not disclosed terms Magento was acquired for $180 million by eBay Inc., and is now a division of X.commerce, Inc. (an eBay Inc. company).
- Magento is a Los Angeles-based Company with more than 290 employees
Connect to our professional team to learn more about Magento.
#eCommerce sphere. Being a very powerful eCommerce #software #platform Magento proposes user-friendly interface and flexible, scalable eCommerce solutions for fast growing business and development. It’s the current leading web shop software in the world which mainly deals with uploading, promoting and marketing unlimited products simultaneously.
One Magento’s biggest advantage is that it provides the merchant with a full set of reports regarding the status of the online store. For businesses with an international client base, Magento offers store management in different languages under the same installation process: this means that the platform stock control only runs through the decision making of one administrator.
2008 is the year when Magento appeared to surprise with its potential and further quickly development. Since that time it deserved popularity and found fans.
- Magento is a highly adaptable platform and thus, provides the customers a flexible online shopping experience. At present, over 150,000 online stores and websites is based on Magento CMS
- In US, UK and Canada eCommerce is a bit more popular term than Magento, but in Australia, New Zealand and India Magento is searched more often than eCommerce
- In its first year, it had over 500,000 downloads of its open source Community Edition; with around 5000 daily downloads even now
- Magento Community Edition is open source eCommerce software used to power your online store and can be downloaded for free. It makes profit up to 25.3%
- More than 100 stores are added a month on Magento Enterprise Editions
The current Magento community stands at over 800,000 members and this number continues to grow at a rapid rate
- Magento platform has 6500 Extension and mounting, that are easy to install and get support on it
- Magento has over 350 solution partners and third-party developers globally
- According to a recent survey, Magento is the most popular eCommerce platform, holding a 31% market share
- 10,000 Brands and Business trust Magento Worldwide
- Used by global brands such as Nike, Samsung, North Face, Nokia, Ford
- It is found that Magento is used by 26% of the top 1 million websites
- By not disclosed terms Magento was acquired for $180 million by eBay Inc., and is now a division of X.commerce, Inc. (an eBay Inc. company).
- Magento is a Los Angeles-based Company with more than 290 employees
Connect to our professional team to learn more about Magento.
As we know Magento is an open-source platform for e-commerce web sites. This content management system was originally developed by #Varien Inc.
Varien is a company founded in 2001 by Yoav Kutner and Roy Rubin. Varien did many e-commerce implementations using osCommerce. Lack of feature, flexibility and stability of osCommerce made them decide to divide #osCommerce as a new e-commerce project in early 2007. They planned to name it like Bento, but there could be some naming conflict, because
FileMaker Inc. already has that trademarked name.
Finally, the first public beta version of Magento was released on August 31 that year. Varien and osCommerce renamed Bento to Magento, a mix of Bento and Mage. The term Mage is thought to be taken from the traditional tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, where the term Mage is means Wizard. And seems by inspiration of Dragonlance Logo the logo of Magento had been created.
Some similarities could be easily found!
On August 31 of that year and Magento 1.0 stable was released on March 31st 2008 under the Open Software License (OSL) 3.0. Currently, there are 3 versions of Magento: Community (1.4), Professional and Enterprise (1.9).
Nowadays the company has impressive advances! After 6 years past it has grown from 3 to 250 employees.
In June 6, 2011 Magento has joined eBay's new X.Commerce initiative.
Currently the company is still developing and growing, improving the platform and providing services of the highest complexity and quality.
Magento 2 was announced in 2010 and the plans were to release it by the end of 2011. But we still waiting for official Magento 2 release. And who knows, maybe it will have new more exciting rebranded logo.
Varien is a company founded in 2001 by Yoav Kutner and Roy Rubin. Varien did many e-commerce implementations using osCommerce. Lack of feature, flexibility and stability of osCommerce made them decide to divide #osCommerce as a new e-commerce project in early 2007. They planned to name it like Bento, but there could be some naming conflict, because
FileMaker Inc. already has that trademarked name.
Finally, the first public beta version of Magento was released on August 31 that year. Varien and osCommerce renamed Bento to Magento, a mix of Bento and Mage. The term Mage is thought to be taken from the traditional tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, where the term Mage is means Wizard. And seems by inspiration of Dragonlance Logo the logo of Magento had been created.
Some similarities could be easily found!
On August 31 of that year and Magento 1.0 stable was released on March 31st 2008 under the Open Software License (OSL) 3.0. Currently, there are 3 versions of Magento: Community (1.4), Professional and Enterprise (1.9).
Nowadays the company has impressive advances! After 6 years past it has grown from 3 to 250 employees.
In June 6, 2011 Magento has joined eBay's new X.Commerce initiative.
Currently the company is still developing and growing, improving the platform and providing services of the highest complexity and quality.
Magento 2 was announced in 2010 and the plans were to release it by the end of 2011. But we still waiting for official Magento 2 release. And who knows, maybe it will have new more exciting rebranded logo.
