Magento Tips and Tricks

As you manage and run your Magento store you will come across problems that may baffle you. You update a product and the change is not reflected on the front end. You move a widget but nothing appears to happen.

Many Magento 'problems' can be solved simply by refreshing the cache on your Magento store

Before you call web support or your developer try refreshing the Magento cache. Watch this two minute video which will explain how to refresh the Magento cache on your Magento store.

Back in April Magento announced the release of new versions of Magento Community Edition (1.7) and Magento Enterprise Edition (1.12). Tom Robertshaw of Magento Partner Meanbee gives a brief overview of what's new in these versions and why you should consider upgrading your store.

Widgets can help you develop flexible content on your Magento store. In the latest edition of the Maximising Magento podcast we discuss how you can use widgets to create individual product pages that can be managed with ease.
 

Promotions in order emails and signup emails can help to generate and increase sales on your Magento store. This article looks at how you can incorporate these easily using the tools available in your Magento store giving you a new promotional channel while also making life easier when it comes to managing this.

Measuring the number of product searches on your Magento store is an important part of optimising and analysing success. Problem is that these figures in the report can be outlandishly high. This article looks at what causes this and how it can be prevented.

Need to optimise your magento store for search engines? Take a look at our 7 tips for making sure your store is as search friendly as possible.

Marks and Spencer has recently launched its outlet store on-line so bargain hunters can go directly to the sale rail - how can you get in on the action?

A step by step guide on how to replace the default Magento Favicon without having to code!

In this article, I look at the mistakes I see made in Magento Stores - read it and find out if you are making any of them...

After talking to a Magento store owner today he was wondering how you go about wrapping the text around the image so that it appears like it would in a word processor instead of on a line on it's own. In this short tutorial I show you how to edit your image so it wraps perfectly with your text.