Are you looking to integrate a blog into your Magento shopping cart ecommerce store? There are a few ways you can accomplish this, but one way that I have found is far better than any of the other possible solutions. It’s using Lazzymonks Blog Extension for Magento. Here are the specific steps for setting it [...]

Magento has just released a new version of it’s open source e-commerce/shopping cart. The version is 1.1.3 and has fixed a few bugs from version 1.1. Here are a list of those fixed bugs: Fixed PayPal direct/express/standard errors and shipping calculation when only virtual products are in cart Fixed internal redirects validation for secure URLs [...]

Just this past week Magento released it’s 1.1 Version to the public. Since doing so they have fixed some small bug issues and released Version 1.1.2. This mainly fixes the following small bug issues: Magento Core API fixes: Added missing Mage_Api.xml in Magento Connect core package Fixed wrong SOAP content type Fixed fatal error when [...]

Version 1.0 STABLE has been released officially by Prestashop – the open source ecommerce shopping cart solution. This is a big deal. It provides another open source competitor to the traditional Zencart and the up and coming Magento. How You Can Contribute The PrestaShop project has just opened up a Bug Tracker so that users [...]

The Open Source Magento Ecommerce system has just come out with a new production version of 1.1! This new version has some new advacements/features that are very interesting. Check it out. More product-types With Magento 1.1 you can now create a few new product types. Bundles most commonly used in the “built to order” product [...]

Many of you i’m sure are accustomed to dealing with many of the open source ecommerce/shopping cart applications and might understand what i’m about to explain to you. It’s so hard to find any good free templates/themes for any of these ecommerce applications. Most of them, especially OScommerce and Zen Cart are absolutely hideous looking [...]