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Why choose Magento over WordPress for your Ecommerce Site

- E-Commerce

The war between Magento and WordPress has been in existence ever since these CMS platforms made their way into ecommerce. While WordPress supports MySQL and PHP language, Magento utilizes MySQL, PHP as well as Zend Framework. Magento also uses, model-view-controller and entity-attributes-value model to store in database.

While WordPress is a favorite for blogging platforms, Magento has carved out a name for itself as the better CMS platform for ecommerce sites. It is an open source cross-platform.  Both the platforms are highly SEO friendly and has huge user base.

Magento provides powerful features as well as control of marketers to manage their respective online stores. Magento provides its users with a huge range of shopping cart plugins and payment options. The Magento Admin panel is flooded with various forms of ecommerce plugins like shipping option, price management, inventory, payment integration and the likes. It is also a trusted site for secure payment integration. The easy customization and simple management makes Magento a preferred site for people who want to build ecommerce sites.

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Magento testing, audit and code analysis methods and tools

- E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

In this post, we are going to talk about different Magento tools for testing, audit and code analysis. There are 3 major groups of testing: Unit, Functional and Integration. They all have their goals, so you should know their major features to choose the most suitable for your issue. Of course, there are extensions and services developed to perform testing, audit and code analysis for Magento, but let’s start from the theoretical aspect of the problem.

The first major software testing method is a unit testing. Its main goal is to determine if individual parts of source code and different sets of program modules work correctly. This testing method relies on units as the smallest testable parts of an application. A unit could be an individual function, an entire module or interface. The gradation depends on a programming type. Each test case should be independent from the other cases. Substitutes such as mock objects, method stubs, fakes, and harnesses are usually used in order to assist testing a module in isolation. By performing unit tests, you can get all the necessary information required to understand that code behaves as intended. You set apart each part of the program and find out if individual parts work as expected.

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How To Make Every Magento Store Responsive And Mobile Ready

- E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Responsive design is a special approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience for mobile devices. Responsive web design provides easy reading and navigation, and reduces resizing, panning and scrolling to minimum.

The technology relies on proportion-based grids with page element sizing in percentages, flexible images sized in relative units, and CSS3 media queries, which allow the page to use CSS style rules, based on characteristics of every single device. But why is Responsive design so important for e-commerce?

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Best Magento Newsletter Extensions And Email Marketing Services

- Magento tips & tricks

Email marketing is one of the key tools of e-commerce business development, which helps you reach your audience and understand its response. By sending commercial messages to different groups of people using email, you build loyalty, trust, and brand awareness. You can use both sold lists and current customer database to implement email marketing for your business. There are a lot of Magento tools designed for email marketing. In this post, you will find the best Magento newsletter extensions and email marketing services.

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Magento 2 Newsletter Extensions And Email Marketing Services

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Magento Ajax Extensions (login, cart, catalog, navigation and more)

- Magento tips & tricks

Ajax is a group of web development techniques designed to create asynchronous web applications. By using Ajax, web apps can exchange data with a server in the background. Ajax can work in combination with CSS and HTML to mark up and style information.

Ajax is widely used in Magento. There are different Ajax extensions for login, cart, catalog, navigation and other components of e-commerce store.

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Custom Product Pricing Magento Extensions (tier, group, configurable, custom prices, and more)

- E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

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The default Magento functionality provides limited abilities when it comes to custom product pricing. But you can dramatically change the situation by using custom product pricing Magento extensions. In this post, we gathered the most popular tools and solutions aimed at improving the way you work with tier, group, configurable, and custom prices. Below, you will find both free and paid Magento extensions from top developers.

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Best Tools And Extensions For Magento Developers (debug, extensions development, IDE plugins, data base debug, unit tests)

- Magento tips & tricks

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In this post, you will find all the necessary extensions and tools for the Magento development. Although there are free and paid solutions with absolutely different functionalities produced by both big companies and single developers, each Magento development extension, plugin, or tool offers a great opportunity to improve the way you work within the platform. Some tools will help you to reduce time and effort usually spent on performing various routine tasks, while others will make your projects more robust and reliable. We will provide you with more details after the break.

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The Best Referral And Affiliate Marketing Magento Extensions

- Magento tips & tricks

Add new customers to your e-commerce business by implementing referral and affiliate marketing. The difference between them is that the affiliate marketing relationships are financially driven while the ones in referral marketing are personal. By choosing affiliate marketing, you motivate your customers to promote your business for the financial reward. As a result, they work with people they don’t know. In its turn, referral marketing relies on altruism, underpinned by a discount or some other incentive. In referral marketing, your customers recommend you to someone know quite well. Now when you know the difference, we can introduce you to the most reliable referral and affiliate marketing Magento extensions.

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