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Magento has introduced new quality control requirements for all Magento extensions which are or will be pushed in their marketplace "Magento Connect". Lately, a large numbers of Magento extensions have been pushed to Magento Connect which were not very valuable for the Magento community. We welcome their move to put some sort of quality control on Magento extensions to filter out junk. Magento Connect Quality Control Requirements Magento has been very transparent with the quality control requirements; they have properly listed the criterion for Magento extension developers so they don't ...

Lately, we've been developing lots of Responsive Magento Themes just because the conversion rate of these Magento stores (if responsive) is much higher than any non-responsive store. Business communities and big names like Forbes have already asked the question Why You Need to Prioritize Responsive Design Right Now?. So, is it worth your time & efforts? Answer is YES. Millions of people are accessing web via Android, iPhones and tablets. By choosing a Responsive web design, you help you customer to find what they really need, you future proof you site to a degree, from where it can be ...

When speed is one of the primary criteria for web applications & stores, you can't simply rely on non-configured server setup. Apache is heavy unless you use the real power of it. Why not use some lightweight web servers like Ngnix or Lighttpd version 1.4.x. Although, these web servers are pretty light weight still they are powerful enough to cater large audience yet keep very small memory footprint. What is Lighttpd Lighttpd is a lightweight web server which is secure, designed and optimized for high performance environments. Lighttpd is effective ...

Magento itself provides a lean Contact Us form which can be used by customers to contact the store owners. But, what if you want to take additional inputs from your user? Customizing Magento Contact Us form is one of the most common request any Magento developer recives. So, here is an easy way of appending/inserting more fields to customize Magento Contact form. Step 1. Edit form.phtml file located at app/design/frontend/default/YOUR_THEME/template/contacts/form.phtml. Suppose you want to add subject field after telephone. Then find the following lines of code ...

Not too long ago, a majority of sites were spending thousands of dollars to have mobile friendly, mobile ready interfaces for their primary websites. These mobile sites (typically m.sitename.com) were specifically build to support as many mobile devices (based on resolutions) as possible. Eventually, big stores due to different screen sizes ended up creating different mobile versions to support more and more devices. Those times were hard for eCommerce industry as most of the customer chose desktop version (the one which open on laptop or computers) to make a purchase. But ...

If you are looking to customize your Magento store or theme, a majority of times you ought to do very specific tasks. I am listing few of them below. I hope you will love this series and will find out most common solutions to most common Magento tasks. How to display category title only on sub category page in Magento Template? To display category title only on sub category page in Magento template go to app/design/frontend/default/Your_Theme/template/catalog/category/view.phtml and find the following line of code simply ...

By default Magento displays category title on category listing page which has it's own advantages. But if you are looking to remove the category title which appears on category listing page in Magento template due to some customization requirements you do can that easily. Just go to app/design/frontend/default/Your_Theme/template/catalog/category/view.phtml file and find the following lines of code which you should comment out ...