In this tutorial I will be explaining how to display subcategory thumbnails within a parent category. This will allow your visitors to narrow down their search accordingly as opposed to being overloaded with all of the products from within a parent category at once, like Magento does by default. An Example of Subcategories within a [...]

In this tutorial we will be discussing how to set up multiple Magento stores on the same dedicated server. In this example I will be setting up 2 stores, one main store (TV Mania) and one sub-store (Macs R Us), both of these have been completely made up! Create Root Category Firstly we will need [...]

Static blocks are one of the many extremely useful features that are pre-built into the Magento to help make parts of your store dynamic and manageable using it’s admin area. You can add a new static blocks by logging in to your admin area and navigating to CMS > Static Blocks and then click the [...]

While building and optimising a Magento shop for a client’s website we decided to use CSS image replacement with a H1 on their logo as the homepage was predominately taken up with top sellers. However Magento only uses one header.phtml across all the templates and we certainly didn’t want the same H1 across all the [...]

More and more retailers are using blogs and RSS feeds to help expand their business’s online presence. However Magento, the world’s leading open source eCommerce package doesn’t offer out of the box blog management, so many Magento shop owners are turning to other open-source software like WordPress to help meet their blogging demands. This leaves [...]

Magento is an open source ecommerce platform that has helped revolutionise online shopping. We recommend Magento to each of ecommerce clients and it has been highly praised for different reasons. In this short blog post we will aim to list 5 of the most impressive features we have found laying around in Magento. Multi-Site Functionality [...]