April 2013
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“The team at SMDesign are so helpful and I only wish some companies here in the...”
– Graham Spink, www.divahandbags.co.uk
February 2013
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Advanced Search Suggests - Magento extension →
Advanced Search Suggests will visually enhance Magento default search form and upgrade functionality with AJAX based search and suggest content delivery feature. Show suggested terms and help your customers in search through your store. Show suggested products including product image, title, description and other attributes. Allow your customers to buy products directly from search bar and...
June 2012
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Magento Enterprise Edition →
Find out more about Magento Enterprise Edition
Upstream Commerce Ensures Magento eCommerce... →
Upstream Commerce today announced the integration of its Retail Intelligence Suite with the leading e-commerce platform, Magento™, a division of eBay. For the first time, Magento users will be able to easily track their competitors’ prices and assortments in real-time to give them a competitive advantage in today’s crowded online marketplace…
MYDIGIPASS.COM available on Magento e-commerce... →
Daily Tip: Magento WordPress Integration 2.0... →
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WordPress 3.4 Adds Live Preview and Embedded... →
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Facebook expands integration with WordPress →
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5 Mistakes to Avoid on Ecommerce Sites →
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Put an end to E-Commerce platform confusion: NY... →
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MYDIGIPASS.COM available on Magento e-commerce... →
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WordPress 3.4 Is Coming Soon! Find Out What to... →
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Yottaa Announces Magento E-Commerce Platform... →
Magento U Summer Schedule 2012 →
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A guide for Wordpress beginners →
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WHY BUY SWATCHES FROM SMDESIGN AND NOT FROM... →
By now, everyone who has had an interest in Magento and Swatches as one of the most successful tools for improving the overall appearance and customer experience must have seen a number of swatches by different web development companies. If you go to Magento Connect and search for “Swatch” you get 33 extensions, a number of which were made by SMDesign. So, why buy from us? Stay with us and we will...
May 2012
14 posts
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Custom Option Swatch Extension is an extension for... →
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The Magento REST API: A Better Way to Integrate... →
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How to add ‘terms and Conditions’ in checkout page... →
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International Tax Rates in Magento →
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Top 5 WordPress Plugins – 2012 →
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BASIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BEGINNERS IN MAGENTO... →
Magento is a complex open source platform which can provide an excellent experience both for owners of web shops and their customers. However, Magento development doesn’t come that easy. Although downloading and installing it is pretty simple, if you are a beginner there are a few things you must know. First and foremost, it is highly risky for a beginner to tamper with the core Magento files....
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MAGENTO EXTENSIONS BY SMDESIGN – HOW CAN I IMPROVE... →
The answer is simple – the better your store appearance is, the more customers will decide to buy. With our extensions you can not only improve the appearance of your store but also its functionality. Let us use a few examples to show you how….
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MAGENTO EVENTS YOU SHOULD ATTEND →
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HOW TO INCREASE SALES IN MY MAGENTO WEBSHOP? →
Ok, so you made a Magento site (or had it made for you), installed all the necessary extensions, arranged your products, launched it, and now what? How to attract customers and increase sales, how to make yourself stand out from all the other web shops? First of all you need to realize that the marketing rules have changed. It is not enough to pay for ads, do SEO, sit back and wait. You have to...
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A Complete First Look At Magento Commerce →
Magento Names 500friends as Platinum Partner →
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How To SEO E-Commerce Websites: What You Need To... →
ORLANDO, FLORIDA-Ebay’s promotion of Magento Go is an excellent opportunity for online merchants to explore the SEO benefits the open-source, e-commerce product offers. Courtesy of sumoheavy.com According to eCommerce Bytes, an independent news source for online retailers, the users of eBay’s ProStores were urged to switch to Magento Go, which eBay acquired last year, in a recent email newsletter...
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Why Magento hosting is must for Magento Website? →
As we all know, web hosting is a form of internet hosting service that permits organizations and individuals to craft their website easily accessible through the World Wide Web. Generally such web hosting services companies provide internet connectivity and space on a server for their clients. Magento hosting demands a specific type of hosting to move further flawlessly. Such hosting services are...
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HOW TO INCREASE SALES IN MY MAGENTO WEBSHOP? →
Ok, so you made a Magento site (or had it made for you), installed all the necessary extensions, arranged your products, launched it, and now what? How to attract customers and increase sales, how to make yourself stand out from all the other web shops? First of all you need to realize that the marketing rules have changed. It is not enough to pay for ads, do SEO, sit back and wait. You have to...
April 2012
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Do you know where your cloud data is? →
If your data is in the cloud, do you know where it really is? When enterprises use a public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider to store their data offsite, they’re basically sending the data off into a service provider’s data center. But just where is that data center? Many IaaS providers are hush about the location of their data centers, and some for good reason related...
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Color Swatch
Color Swatch is an extension for configurable products which can show to your customers how a product looks like in different colors, patterns or designs. Color Swatch works with all types of attributes (color, size, manufacturer…) and it only extends standard options in Magento without affecting standard functionality of it. It is compatible with all versions of Magento and requires no additional...
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Magento extensions - the essential part of a... →
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MAGENTO EVENTS YOU SHOULD ATTEND →
As we already mentioned in one of the previous posts, it is essential for every Magento developer to attend Magento events and seminars. Here we present some of the upcoming events, and you can find information about where to register at Magento commerce web site events page…
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What’s new in Magento 1.7? →
Magento 1.7 is at release candidate version one with 10 open issues. We should be expecting the full release shortly to tie in with the annual Imagine Conference. It’s time for a whirlwind overview of some of the new features in Magento 1.7.
Styling Magento Blocks →
My question is, is there an easy way to add markup or a class or identifier to the block to enable me to style it. I know I could use the body class that magento applies and maybe the products-grid class, but what i’d really like to do is create some generic styling for 3/4/5 column grids and then be able to simply change the xml to the new column count and have that shown correctly on the...
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Complaints about iPad Wi-Fi problems continue to... →
Complaints from owners of Apple’s newest iPad that their device has trouble connecting to wireless networks continue to mount. One Apple support thread on the subject has collected over 770 messages, and has been viewed more than 65,000 times, both very large numbers by the support forum’s standards. Apple started selling the third-generation iPad on March 16, and gripes about its...
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MAGENTO EXTENSIONS BY SMDESIGN – HOW CAN I IMPROVE... →
The answer is simple – the better your store appearance is, the more customers will decide to buy. With our extensions you can not only improve the appearance of your store but also its functionality. Let us use a few examples to show you how. Let’s start with examples of Color Swatch. On these two images you can see the Color Swatch with Zoom applied to show different versions of bags and phone...
March 2012
3 posts
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CUSTOM OPTION SWATCH EXTENSION DEMO →
See how our new Magento extension, CUSTOM OPTION SWATCH, looks like in a demo shop!
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CUSTOM OPTION SWATCH EXTENSION →
WE HAVE A NEW MAGENTO EXTENSION ON OFFER! This week we released CUSTOM OPTION SWATCH EXTENSION, which is an extension for Magento designed to enable the usage of swatch thumbnail images (clickable images) instead of the standard representation of custom options in the form of a checkbox, drop down box and multi select box. Check it out!
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Don't miss our 20% discount on Swatches for... →
February 2012
7 posts
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SEO: How To Optimize A Magento Product Detail Page →
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Payment Methods in Magento →
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How to Effectively Market with Memes (Without... →
Whether you love or hate these clever creations we share on the Internet, they’ve invaded our consciousness and are here to stay. What makes memes so addictive? Better yet, can we analyze how memes work to learn more about viral marketing? I will highlight how a meme comes to be, grows up, and then eventually fizzles out, all the while showing how they can be used by marketers. What are Memes?...
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MAGENTO DESIGN – TIPS AND EXAMPLES →
When you’re designing a Magento website, there are things you need to consider before putting anything to the “drawing board”. We can do the complete design for you, but if you opt to do it yourself, here are a few tips that can make your work easier. Decide on the complexity of your web site – in practice, this means you’ll have to know whether you need only one single-language store, multiple...
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“A client of ours needed a way to add different color versions of products to his...”
– Ryan L., one of the customers who bought our Color Swatch extension.
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Tesla's Model X: Finally, an electric car we all... →
The company last night unveiled the Model X, a sleek-looking cross between a minivan and SUV with clever “falcon wing” doors and a new electric all-wheel drive system. People can start placing reservations tomorrow for the Model X, which is expected to be available late next year with prices in the $55,000 to $75,000 range before tax incentives and rebates. Beyond making an...
