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In this article we decided to share some examples of the stores that were upgraded recently by our team of certified Magento developers.

We sorted this showcase list by Magento version, so you can find here real examples of Magento 1.4, 1.5 and even 1.3 Magento stores which were upgraded to the latest stable Magento version without any loss in design, functionality or customer/products information.

Using our methodology and our Magento import scripts you will be able to successfully transfer customers data, categories data, products data from X-Cart to Magento platform.

Besides data migration process description we published here special Magento extension. Our extension will allow you and your customers to see X-Cart orders in your Magento admin and storefront. You can download the Magento extension and import scripts here.

Very often our clients ask us for recommendations on which hosting company to choose for their Magento stores.

If you plan to use full power of Magento, e.g. multi-stores feature, build-in performance optimization modules, it is highly recommended to choose right hosting from the very beginning.

We will not advertise any hosting providers in this blog post, instead we gather here the most important and serious questions that you should discuss with any hosting provider.
 

We are happy to announce the launch of several websites based on Magento platform. All these websites were launched recently and already added to our public Magento portfolio. Check our latest Magento showcase stores.

This article is for novice design integrators who want to integrate the design into magento. There are several important things that you should be aware of before you start work. So I prepared this short checklist, hope it will be helpful. If you are experienced magento developer you will not find something new, but if you are new in magento it can save you a lot of time.

The following article may be useful for front-end developers, it describes how to add breadcrumbs on the page (where it is not supposed to be by default) using layout XML and minimal PHP programming. It describes adding of 2-levels breadcrumbs (i.e. "Home / Some page") which is needed in most cases.

If you use configurable products in your Magento store and your super attribute have a lot of options (thousands of options), you can experience the following performance issues:

• Loading time of a configurable product page is more than other pages (especially when Magento cache is disabled)
• When you add a configurable product to store cart, cart page become slow
• When configurable product is added to store cart, all store pages become slow

In this article I will show how to debug such issues and how to fix the speed issue I described above.

Magento is SEO friendly shop engine that allows you to get more traffic from search engines. However it is very important to configure Magento SEO features correctly from very beginning.

In this article we gathered all default Magento SEO features. Use this article as SEO guide or SEO checklist for every new store you launch, and your Magento will be search engine optimized.