How To Create An Admin-Manageable Magento Entity For Brands

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March 13, 2014 — In this tutorial, we will create a new “brand” entity in Magento that can be managed through the admin panel. Once we are finished, you will be able to create, update and delete brands that can be ... Read More…

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Matthew Haworth wrote

How To Create Custom Shipping Methods In Magento

January 15, 2014 — In this tutorial, we will use Magento’s powerful shipping-method code abstraction to create a shipping carrier. We will create two shipping methods that provide a fixed shipping price, allow for free shipping promotions, define logic based on an item’s weight and, finally, … Read More…

Joseph McDermott wrote

How To Create An Affiliate Tracking Module In Magento

February 6, 2013 — In this tutorial, we will create a Magento module that will capture an affiliate referral from a third-party source (e.g. an external website or newsletter) and include a HTML script on the checkout success page once this referral has been converted. As always, this module … Read More…

Joseph McDermott wrote

Introducing The Magento Layout

November 30, 2012 — In this tutorial, we introduce the Magento layout by creating a simple module that will add some custom HTML content to the bottom of every customer-facing page, in a non-intrusive manner. In other words, we will do so without actually modifying any Magento templates or core … Read More…

Joseph McDermott wrote

The Basics Of Creating A Magento Module

March 1, 2012 — A lot of community extensions (or modules) are available for the feature-rich open-source e-commerce solution Magento but what if they don’t quite work as you want them to? What if you could understand the structure of a Magento module a little better, to the point that you … Read More…

The Smashing Editorial wrote

Polaroid: A Free Magento Theme For Your E-Commerce Website

August 24, 2010 — Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: Polaroid Magento Theme, a professional design skin for the shops powered by the popular open-source ecommerce web application Magento. The theme was designed by eCommerce-Themes and released for Smashing Magazine and its … Read More…

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Download a Free Magento Theme: HelloWired

June 3, 2010 — Magento, an open source e-commerce web application, is often a good choice for an e-commerce website. The system is quite powerful and the community around the product is strong, making Magento one of the first options to consider when choosing an engine for your online … Read More…

Dkumar M. wrote

25+ Magento Templates For Your E-Commerce Business

May 5, 2009 — Magento is a popular open source e-commerce software platform that has a modular architecture and is extremely flexible. It comes with a number of online shop maintenance capabilities. It is also simple to configure and easy to customize. And despite the fact that it was … Read More…

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