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Magento development: Show minicart/sidebar with totals on checkout

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

One of the great features available in default Magento is one page checkout. However, the bad point is that you can see your actual cart totals only on last step of checkout (order confirmation).
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What you need to know to convert your PSD design to Magento?

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Convert PSD to Magento

Very often clients who already has ready-made design ask us: if I want you to integrate my design into Magento, what information I need to provide? So we decided to prepare some kind of checklist, i.e. what you should prepare for smooth and trouble-free PSD to Magento design conversion.

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Must-have extensions for all Magento stores

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

magento extensions

Magento Ecosystem is large. There are more than 5000 modules for Magento in MagentoConnect. But anyway sometimes it is difficult to find good Magento module, created according to all Magento standards and best practices.
Here our list of the best free and commercial Magento extensions. These modules will help Magento store owners to increase sales and make store more user friendly.

We always recommend these extensions to our clients.

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Bugfixes: Product category position lost during import

Friday, March 16th, 2012

There is a strange bug in Magento version 1.6. It happened when you define products order within category and then re-import the products. After that defined positions are reverted to 1.

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Magento Tips: Disable Magento compiler from Linux command shell

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

disable magento compiler

Sometimes it is needed to urgently disable and clear Magento complier, e.g. after installation or some 3rd party Magento module.

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Magento Tips: 404 Not Found error after Magento module installation

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Sometimes after Magento modules installation, you can see 404 page not found error in your Magento administration zone.

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Magento Tips: How to improve Magento speed using Apache files compression

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Apache files compression is the fastest way to improve your Magento website speed and performance.

It is recommended to check compression status before and after compression activation. You can easily check compression and data savings level using http://www.whatsmyip.org/http_compression/ online service.

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