When developing Magento themes, you will quite often have flat HTML that you are breaking apart and putting into Magento’s template files. One thing that I have OCD-like tendencies with is the need to make sure that all text is in an inline translate. By that I mean using:
<?php echo $this->__('Basket') ?>Obviously, this is good practice to have when building any...
October 2011’s eCommerce survey found 4% more stores than the June survey, detecting 26,594 in total. The analysis looks at the home page of the top 1 million Alexa sites and analyses them for identifying features of 32 different eCommerce packages.
Both Zen Cart and Magento see huge growths of 18% each this month. However, Magento is the real winner...
Play your local mp3 files in the browser with Browser Beats, a hack weekend project by Tomas Gerulaitis and me.
This weekend, Storm Consultancy held their second hack weekend. A time for webbies to descend on “Storm Towers” to code, design, drink, eat pizza and play Guitar Hero. I paired up with Tomas to build a browser music player (only compatible with Chrome), that plays local MP3 files...
The June 2011 eCommerce survey of the Alexa top 1 million sites found 25,592 online stores. Magento continues to reign as the most popular platform with 4,705 sites, an 15% increase since February.
Zen Cart sees the largest gains, doubling to 3,167 sites. This results in Zen Cart becoming the second most popular eCommerce software in the top...