Many people including me have no need for most of the functionality CRM’s like SugarCRM and vTiger CRM offer. These big CRM’s are slow to load, and difficult to understand how to use. That’s why for the past 2 years I have been in desperate for a lightweight, easy to use, true Open Source CRM application.
What If WordPress Could Be a CRM?
WordPress is one of the most ideal open source projects in the history of the web. It’s licensed under the GPL and it’s community is full of people truly dedicated to contributing code and advancing the app. It’s lightweight, easy to use, and simple to customize by adding additional functionality. What if this could be a CRM? We already know of the many other ways WordPress can be used. A CRM seems logical.
The Open Source WP-CRM Slick Theme for WordPress
This theme is a free theme for WordPress that turns [...]

Learning to use the open source Magento shopping cart can be quite the task. Because Magento has so many cool features and functions, it naturally has quite the long learning curve.  Here are two user guide ebooks in PDF format free to download that will help you save a ton of time. The first is a user guide for the entire shopping cart and the second is a designer’s guide for all of you who want to customize the look of your Magento run ecommerce site.

big thanks to BanZZai for getting this user guide together.

an even bigger thanks to Tomislav Bilic over at inchoo.net for putting this together for everyone to enjoy.
I have recently put together a page on the top Premium Magento Themes that you might find helpful as well. Especially since there aren’t exactly tons of them!

There are 4 open source projects that we need on the web. If these existed I could die a happy man and finally have all the tools I need as an Organic Internet Marketer. Hopefully we see some development in these area. Here they are:
1. Lightweight & Highly Extensible Shopping Cart
We all know of the big open source ecommerce platforms in the market. Magento, Zen Cart just to name a couple. But i’m talking about something truly lightweight and easy to use for the common user. Basically the “Wordpress” of the ecommerce world. This project would be licensed under the GPL so that it’s a true open source project unlike the others.
Because of this GPL license more people would contribute plugins to the core, giving the cart as much functionality as a Magento or Zen Cart.
2. Lightweight & Highly Extensible CRM
SugarCRM and vTiger CRM are the two big PHP [...]

Want to create a trendy and hip online store? Let me explain to you how you can and save you a ton of time and money at the same time. First off we want to use the Open Source Ecommerce platform Magento. Doing this gives you all the features you need for a shopping cart, and at no cost to you obviously because it’s open source. (check out my most recent Magento project screenpainthd.com to see some of the cool things you can do with Magento.)
Let’s Look at the Benefits of Magento
There are so many features of the Magento ecommerce platform it’s hard to count. Right out of the box your open source cart can easily be connected to a Paypal or Authorize.net merchant account to handle your orders. You have access to dozens of community extensions to extend the functionality of your shopping cart. It’s Open Source so you [...]

I’d like to introduce my first free Drupal theme. It’s called the Mixer Theme. It’s a simple CSS, clean style theme. 900 pixels wide and is for Drupal version 6. My idea was to create a free theme that is ready to use out of the box. But simple and clean enough to easily customize for your own needs. The Mixer Theme also utilizes some good looking typography which makes it ideal for blogging.

Also included in the theme is psd file for the Mixer Theme logo in case you want to use the same font and create your own. This theme is based of the free Nixer Drupal theme.The font used for the logo is the Grunge Serifia font by SynergyDigital.
The theme is extremely lightweight and fast. It supports both left and right sidebars. All CSS and XHTM is valid. Should look identical in Firefox, IE, and Safari.

I hope you [...]

Here are the best of the best Magento Themes up to this point. The Magento Ecommerce Open Source Platform has been around for quite a while now and community theme development is slow. Thankfully there are 6 themes that have been contributed by 6 fantastic developers. Hopefully we will see some more in the near future. But for now here are the very best open source themes you can find for the Magento shopping cart:
1. Magento Classic Theme
Compatible with Magento 1.3.2+

demo | download
2. Free Magento Theme from MageSupport
Compatible with Magento 1.3 and higher

demo | download
3. Magento Absolute Theme
beta version of theme

demo | download
4. Magento Mobile Theme – beta
beta version of theme

demo | download
5. Yoast Blank SEO Theme
Compatible with Magento 1.3.1.1

6. Pet store theme
Compatible with Magento 1.1

demo | download
Please note: I installed and tested all 6 of these free themes on the most recent version of Magento which at the time [...]