Five Leading eCommerce Platforms

One of the most incredible opportunities the web as a whole brought the plucky entrepreneur is of course the eCommerce website. The ability to open any kind of store without the need for physical premises or even any employees made it possible for millions with unrealised dreams to take the first steps toward the most … Read more

eBay Sellers Feel the Wrath of Google’s Latest SEO Attack

It’s become apparent over recent weeks that a rather unlikely victim of Google’s recent assault on SEO addicts is none other than eBay. The world’s biggest online marketplace has experienced a huge drop in traffic ever since Google decided to roll out yet another update to its search algorithm, which has in turn had a … Read more

Can An ‘About Us’ Page Convert? It Sure Can – Here’s How

If there’s one page of the average website that gets overlooked more than any other, it’s that old faithful – the ‘About Us’ page. Usually left as something of an afterthought to be thrown together when time suits, it’s seen by most businesses as little more than a way of bulking the site up with … Read more

Business Web Hosting Company: All That Your Website Needs

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Webhosting is the basis of all websites in the world. Without it, information as we know it would cease to exist. Do you love the fact that you do not have to go shopping in a physical location because of the opportunity to do it online? This is thanks to a business web hosting company. … Read more

All You Need To Know About Ecommerce Website Hosting

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Ecommerce website hosting USA is suited for an electronic commercial website. This differs with the conventional webhosting because it offers more functionality. The features of this hosting package include SSL, shopping cart software, payment processing software, database assistance and security. Basically, this hosting package allows the site owners to set up, manage and perform ecommerce … Read more

Disable Wishlist Functionality in Magento

Many Magento site admins find that some of the built-in features are not useful. The good news is that you can always remove them via the admin interface by disabling their respective modules. If your theme has been built to a high standard than ‘Wishlist’ is one of them. To remove all of the traces … Read more

How to Get the Copyright Text in PHP and the CMS for Magento

As this is a very useful thing to do when customising a Magento template / theme and I could find nothing on-line to quickly demonstrate how to do this here you go: [code]<?php $storeCopyright = Mage::getStoreConfig(‘design/footer/copyright’); echo $storeCopyright; ?>[/code] If you need to add this to a CMS page then you can use this to … Read more

Retrieve VAT from Store Information in Magento with PHP

As this is a very useful thing to do when customising a Magento template / theme and I could find nothing online to quickly demonstrate how to do this here you go: [code]<?php $storeVAT = Mage::getStoreConfig(‘general/store_information/merchant_vat_number’); echo $storeVAT; ?>[/code] If you need to add this to a CMS page then you can use this to … Read more

SagePay Test Cards

In order to configure SagePay properly in Magento you will need to run some test transactions on your SagePay test account. Your admin can be found here: https://test.sagepay.com/mysagepay/loginpage.msp Expiry Date: any date in the future CV2: 123 Billing Address: 88 Billing Postcode: 412 3D Secure Password: password Card Type SagePay Card Name Card Number Issue Number … Read more

Best way to link to a CMS page in Magento

Keeping this code handy will save you time when populating your Magento CMS pages. It will create a safe link which will continue to work if you ever decide to move your site. It is the equivalent of: www.yourwebsite.com/seethelinkbelow [code]<a href=”{{store url=’link-to-custom-cms-page’}}”>Safe Magento Custom CMS Link</a>[/code] To keep things tidy, don’t forget to use single … Read more