Archives for July, 2012

10 Rules of Wisdom: What you need to know to build a successful Magento store

Everybody knows that there are many successful stores running Magento. However, there are many others which are not successful or who cannot open the store after years of development. There are different reasons for that, but I tried to collect most common mistakes of the store owners. Most of them are obvious though.

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Magento Development, Magento Design, Magento Tips, Development, Business, Magento

Magento Go: Custom Tabs on Product Details Pages

Magento Go product tabs

In this article we will show how to enhance your Magento Go product details pages with custom Ajax tabs.

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Magento Development, Magento Design, Magento Tips, Magento

Magento performance: Magento search optimization

Magento search optimization

Search is very important for customer experience, that is why it is highly recommended to keep it quick and optimized.

In this article we gathered recommendations that will help to optimize search in your Magento store without core files modifications.

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Magento Performance, Magento Tips, Magento

Security: Important Magento & Zend Framework Security Update for Magento 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x and 1.7.x versions

The Zend Framework vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to read any file on the web server where the Zend XMLRPC functionality is enabled. So potentially an attacker can read configuration file of your Magento installation.

It is very important to apply security patches that were released by Magento yesterday.

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Magento Development, Business, Magento

Magento performance: Optimize MySQL settings for your Magento database using Tuning Primer shell script

The Tuning Primer is a shell script that allows you to review the MySQL settings and make adjustments to increase Magento database performance and stability. The script will analyze MySQL statistics and provide you with recommendations on how to fine-tune your MySQL server.

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Magento Performance, Magento Tips, Magento