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The Best Free Open Source Magento Templates 2014

August 6, 2014 - Magento tips & tricks

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We have already written about the best Magento templates and now it is time to tell you about the best free solutions. Generally, free Magento templates and themes have less features and opportunities than paid, but one of them can become a perfect basis for your small custom project. Further, we gathered all the necessary information about the best free Magento templates and appropriate download links. If you have limited budget for your e-commerce store, this post will be useful for you.

Magento Shopping Cart Abandonment Extensions

July 29, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Shopping Cart Abandonment Magento Extensions

Abandonment of virtual shopping carts happens quite common. The abandonment rate for e-commerce retailers varies between 60% and 80%, and an average index is 67.91%. To find out shopping cart abandonment rate, you have to compare the number of abandoned shopping carts with the total shopping carts number. For example, there were 50,000 attempts to buy something from online store during the month, but only 10,000 transactions have been made, so 40,000 carts have been abandoned. It means that abandonment rate is 80% ((40,000/50,000)*100%=80%). But it is possible to decrease this index with the help of shopping cart abandonment Magento extensions. The best tools are described below.

Magento 2 Shopping Cart Abandonment (Extensions and Modules)

Magento Connect Stuff Picks extensions (summer 2014)

July 11, 2014 - Magento tips & tricks

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Magento Connect Stuff Picks includes 3 pages of both free and paid extensions. WordPress integration, one page checkout, social marketing apps, taxes, shopping, different reports and a bunch of new features are among them. Magento Connect Stuff Picks extensions were carefully selected by Magento team, so they are the most useful, interesting or unusual solutions for your e-commerce webstore.

Mobile e-commerce in 2015

July 10, 2014 - E-Commerce

Mobile branch of e-commerce is constantly growing. It plays very important role not only in infrastructure of online stores but it gradually becomes one of the major sales tool for multichannel stores. In November 2013 Google posted through Think Insights that in USA average consumer spends about 15 hours a week looking for products on smartphone or tablet. About 93 percent of such consumer make a purchase, if the desired item is found, of course. As you can see, it is very important to provide the ability to reach the store from mobile device. There are three major strategies for Mobile e-commerce in 2014: native apps, HTML5, CSS or JavaScript, and mobile web.

Magento Go is dead

July 3, 2014 - E-Commerce

Unfortunately we have to inform you, that Magento Go is almost dead. Yes, Magento decided to close the project. Cloud-based eCommerce solution with all the web hosting features was launched in the beginning of 2011. The project was created in order to support different small businesses, and it has no need to install software. However, it has the ability to install extensions for extra functionality. Unlike Community and Enterprise editions, Magento Go was hosted by Magento itself. And now we can witness the end of Magento Go and the same is true to ProStores.

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PHPNG – future of PHP

June 5, 2014 - E-Commerce

PHPNG is a new branch of PHP development. It aims to bring better memory usage efficiency and performance. PHPNG is focused on PHP’s VM Zend Engine. PHPNG aims to provide the maximum performance for current applications by rebuilding internal structures of PHP. Existing structure leads to the next time expenditures: 20% of time are used for tasks of memory manager, 10% – for hash tables, 30% – for call internal functions and only 30% – for execution in virtual machine. PHPNG can do a 10-30% execution speed improvement by changing this structure. Also it leads to some memory savings.

Upgrade to Magento Community 1.9 (by SSH)

June 4, 2014 - Magento tips & tricks

Magento Community Edition 1.9.0.1 has ben released. It contains multiple improvements over older versions. 1.9.0.1 is a major release , so it’s very important not to miss it. In this post we will show you how to upgrade from previous Magento version to the new one. Don’t forget to try Magento CE 1.9.0.1 upgrade in a test environment. The operation is not risky, but there is always a chance to break something.

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Best Magento Development Companies – the most reliable sources to improve or build your Magento store

May 26, 2014 - E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

In this post you can find information about the best Magento extensions developmend studios. There are a lot of different companies specialised in Magento development. Some of them produce free products, another – paid. The quality and the purpose of their modules also differ. For every company we did a short review, based on information from the web. Few best extensions are also included.

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Best Magento optimized hosting 2015

May 23, 2014 - Magento tips & tricks

G good Magento optimized hosting is very important for making your ecommerce store fast and stable. In this article we’ve gathered 16 best solutions of 2015. Short descriptions, prices and dedicated links are provided.

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