Bespoke Magento Development – Give Your Magento Store A Complete Makeover

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Posted on February 2nd, 2012 | Posted by admin

In simpler terms Bespoke Magento Solution or Bespoke Magento Development means custom made solutions, services tailor made specifically for a Magento Store based on specific business requirements. Bespoke Magento development is typically done for a store that has a noticable traffic and sales. It could be layout (theme) specific changes for the existing Magento store or feature level (Magento Extensions) to enhance features specifically suited for a Magento Store. When looking for Bespoke Magento development, Magento store owners keep a check list of enhancements, changes for their existing Magento store.

A majority of Magento stores are selling different products but carrying out operations based on Magento defaults, but what if you have a requirement which is not possible with default Magento core. The required functionality is not met by the default Magento core which is a  generalized set of features to cater regular store operations. In such scenario, Magento store owners look for Bespoke Magento development or services to match with their business needs.

How to export Magento product

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Posted on February 1st, 2012 | Posted by admin

Hi everyone, as we all know, Magento supports a large number of products. That’s great! But it is also causing problem for people who wants to export / import products. I will try to show you a way which use Magento functionality to export and import product. In this article, let’s start with how to export Magento product.

This tutorial is written based on Magento 1.4 but it should be similar for other Magento versions.

In admin panel, go to System > Import/Export > Profiles

How to use Magento Encryption Key

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Posted on February 1st, 2012 | Posted by admin

The Magento Encryption Key is generated during the Magento Installation. It is used for the encryption and the security storage of the sensitive data in the script’s database.

Magento Training Resources

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Posted on February 1st, 2012 | Posted by admin

As an industry partner of Magento, we want to share some Magento resources that may helpful for you.
Please take advantage of the following resources for you and your implementation team to leverage as you get up-to-speed with Magento.

For training your Web Marketing/Merchandising staff to manage your store:

  • The Community Edition (CE) User Guide (available for sale online)
  • The Enterprise Edition (EE) User Guide (available on the customer support portal)
  • Summer webinars are available on a variety of store management topics (http://www.magentocommerce.com/media/webinars)
  • The knowledge base, specifically the Store Management section (http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/categories/category/store-management/)
  • 3rd party websites:
    • Site Ground is a hosting firm with a nice set of tutorials (http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/magento/)
    • Screencast World (updated less frequently). (http://screencastworld.com/)

Easy Form Validation in magento

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Posted on January 28th, 2012 | Posted by admin

Magento provides some Default classes for validating form elements in frontend. We can make use of those existing
class names for our custom forms and reuse the client side validation code of Magento.
Let’s see a couple of examples from magento source code

1. Adding the required class to any field label will give the asterisk to be appear in red color indicating it is

the mandatory field