Magento

At this point, you’ve installed and configured Magento and you’re ready to log into your Magento 1.6 Admin Panel. The administrator backend is where you’ll Read More >

One of the first things you see when you visit your new Magento 1.6 shopping cart is the default welcome message in the upper right Read More >

At the bottom of your newly installed Magento 1.6 shopping cart, there’s a footer that contains the copyright information. Magento 1.6 allows you to completely Read More >

Magento 1.6 allows you to further customize your shopping cart by adding a custom favicon. By default, the favicon is set to the Magento 1.6 Read More >

Magento 1.6 has a default title used as the meta-title on all non-content pages that do not have a custom title. You can change this Read More >

Magento 1.6 allows you to enter contact information so your website visitors can contact you. This information will be displayed on the website for your Read More >

In your Magento 1.6 Admin Panel the main screen when you log in is referred to as your Dashboard. The Dashboard contains statistics about your Read More >

When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, by default it is not case sensitive. Forcing the login to be case sensitive will improve Read More >

When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, you will see the Magento Dashboard. While the dashboard may contain valuable information, it may not Read More >

Locale options in Magento 1.6 define the local time and date settings as well as the weekend days of your Magento shopping cart. Weekend days Read More >

Now, that you have installed your Magento 1.6 store, and you’re selling products on the Internet, you’ve become a global business. Anyone with an Internet Read More >

As you start to customize your newly installed Magento 1.6 webstore, you’ll probably want to change the logo that displays in the top right section Read More >

When you first log into the Magento 1.6 Admin backend you are presented with the Dashboard. This dashboard gives you statistics or reports. If you Read More >

By default, Magento 1.6 allows your website’s visitors or guests to write reviews for your products. there may be times when you want to disable Read More >

By default, Magento 1.6 will not display products that you do not have inventory for. If a product has no inventory your website’s visitors will Read More >

Magento 1.6 will not allow backorders of products. Before you can allow products to be displayed that has no stock inventory you should set your Read More >

Magento 1.6 will automatically decrease your stock inventories when an order is placed. This can be a great feautre if you sell physical products. However, Read More >

Magento 1.6 has a powerful logging system that can be extremely helpful when debugging any issues you may have. If there’s an error there is Read More >

Magento 1.6 has a built in setting that can help you debug any issues that may arise due to memory usage. By enabling the Debug Read More >

By default, Magento 1.6 will not merge the Javascript files of your web store. Merging the files, can help speed up your website by reducing Read More >

Magento 1.6 gives you the ability to merge the CSS files of your Magento shopping cart. This can be beneficial in speeding up how fast Read More >

One of the most important pages on your Magento 1.6 webstore can be your Terms & conditions. The terms and conditions page should include the Read More >

Magento 1.6 indexes all of your content in order to speed up how fast it accesses it. If you make changes to your store such Read More >

Magento 1.6 by default has a compilation tool built into it. When you first configure Magento, the compiler is disabled and your files have not Read More >

By default your Magento 1.6 store will have various links such as “About Us” and “Customer Service” in the footer of your new Magento shopping Read More >

You may want your web store’s customers to acknowledge certain terms and special conditions before purchasing products. You can easily enable Terms and Conditions so Read More >

At times you may want to temporarily disable your terms and conditions page without actually deleting it. You can disable the terms and conditions at Read More >

This post is archived and is no longer being maintained. Information within the post may be out of date. Magento 1.6 comes with a default Read More >

This post is archived and is no longer being maintained. Information within the post may be out of date. Magento 1.6 has the ability to Read More >

Magento 1.6 has a powerful “checks and balances” system built into it that will notify you of various reminders, like updating your cache/ index or Read More >

The Magento 1.6 notification system is quite powerful and will notfiy you of various settings that may need to changed. You’ll want to delete the Read More >

Magento 1.6 includes a backup tool that will backup your Magento database. Backing up your Magento 1.6 shopping cart regularly is extremely important since your Read More >

Magento 1.6 includes a backup tool that will backup your Magento database and regularly backing up your Magento web store is important. However, you do Read More >

Magento 1.6 can be quite memory intensive due to its robust design. You can adjust the memory limits to reduce or eliminate the memory errors Read More >

Magento 1.6 allows the use of tags as descriptors that can be assigned to any product to help further organize and categorize them. You can Read More >

Now, that you’ve read the article on what product tags are, we can create tags in the backend of Magento 1.6. Tags are great ways Read More >

If a customer submits a tag for a product before it will display on the front end of Magento 1.6 it must be first approved Read More >

You may want to delete a tag that was previously approved or pending in the Magento 1.6 Backend. One good reason to delete tags is Read More >

In Magento, you have the opportunity to create promotions to entice your webstore’s visitors to purchase products from your website. There’s different ways to create Read More >

In Magento 1.6, you have the opportunity to create promotions to entice your webstore’s visitors to purchase products from your website. There’s different ways to Read More >

You can create customer groups within Magento 1.6 to further customize your Magento store. Customer groups are an easy way to cluster customers together to Read More >

Magento 1.6 allows you to create customer groups. At any time you need to remove or delete a customer group it can be easily done. Read More >

Magento 1.6 will allow you to see customers that were logged into your website at any given time. This includes any customer not logged in Read More >

Rarely should you need to create a new customer in Magento 1.6, however, you can easily do so if needed. A new customer can be Read More >

As the admin of your Magento 1.6 web store, you may have to delete customers from time to time. A customer could have a fraudulent Read More >

You can customize the 404 page in Magento 1.6. If your site visitors try to go to a page that does not exist, you can Read More >

You can preview any of the pages in the content management system (CMS) built into Magento. Having the ability to preview the page allows you Read More >

Magento 1.6 comes pre-configured with some static pages in the CMS section. Depending on your site, you may need to delete them. Deleting pages in Read More >

Magento 1.6 has a powerful content management system built into the backend. You can disable any of the static CMS pages without deleting it. this Read More >

When you first installed Magento 1.6 you added the admin email address to your account. At times you may find it necessary to update this Read More >

During the installation process we set up the admin username as “admin”. While this is easy to use, it can be guessed easily by hackers. Read More >

Magento 1.6 allows you to categorize all your products into groups. this helps to better organize your product base making it easier for your customers Read More >

In the previous tutorial we showed you how to create product categories to better organize your products. At any time, you can delete product categories. Read More >

Adding products in Magento 1.6 is important since you want your website visitors to be able to find and purchase the goods and services you Read More >

Once your Magento 1.6 store is up and running you may change which products your store carries. In cases like this, you may want to Read More >

If some of your products will be out of stock for a long time or indefinitely you may want to simply disable the product. This Read More >

In Magento 1.6, you can specify a “special” price for products for a certain date range. This allows you to automatically manage “specials” or sales. Read More >

In Magento 1.6, you have the ability to allow your customers to add a gift message to the order. This is a great feature especially Read More >

Since you have the ability to add gift messages to the entire order or individual items in the order in Magento 1.6, you also have Read More >

Depending on how your configuration is set for Magento 1.6 you may not be able to allow backorders. You can configure each individual product to Read More >

At any time, you can mark a product out of stock even if you have quanitities of the product. One instance where you may use Read More >

Magento 1.6 has a lot of different configurable shipping options. You can easily set up falt rate shipping for the country you are located in. Read More >

Magento 1.6 gives the admin the capability to easily configure free shipping. Free shipping can be a great selling point to convince your website visitors Read More >

Magento 1.6 by default, has shipping for multiple shipping providers already available in the Magento Admin. This makes things easy is you use any of Read More >

In Magento 1.6 customers have the ability to leave customer reviews on your products. We’re going to show you how customers create a review in Read More >

In Magento 1.6, your customers can create accounts so they can return to the site and easily purchase more products. If customers want to tag Read More >

When a customer of your Magento 1.6 website leaves a review, you must approve it before it will show up on the site. If you Read More >

Magento Community Edition has released it’s next version, Magento Preview Version CE 1.7.0.0-RC-1. This new version has recently been moved from Beta and is on Read More >

Many site owners want customers to be able to access their Magento catalog via normal http protocol, but switch over to https (secure) protocol for Read More >