Best Explanation Of Using Products In Magento
After chewing over the best way to set up a webstore using Magento, regarding configurable products, I continued my search on google, vowing not to give up until I found the answers I was looking for. Well, I found the answers, some more questions, and more answers, so right away had to share the article on here…
Overview of Complex Products
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Introduction To Magento Theming
There are lots of paid for and free Magento themes out there on the web, a quick google search will throw up plenty of the usual suspects plus many more, but first you should really understand the basics on theming within Magento – this article gives a basic introduction into understanding the theme structure within Manento:
Building a custom theme for [...]
Magento Configurable Products
Here is another handy tutorial about creating configurable products within Magento that I found really helpful
When adding products to a Magento store, many times you will have different variants of one product each of which you wish to track inventory for. Magento provides a way to do this using configurable products. Setting up configurable products in Magento [...]
Magento Ecommerce Tutorials
A good source of free Magento E-Commerce webdesign tutorials is within the knowledge base area of Magento’s main website. Here is the link:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base
Creating a Configurable Product In Magento
Wondering how to create a product with options that tracks stock in Magneto? Well, look no further – I have found this quick and handy tutorial on how to do exactly that:-
Creating a Configurable Product In Magento
There are a few steps involved:
Create the attributes that will be configurable by the user – for our example they will be Size and [...]
Launching Your Website – Part 9
Set up all your Social Media accounts – this maybe a fun part of being in business, but it doesnt mean its not important. Love it or hate it, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc are all parts of the fabric of online business.
You can add social media icons to your site, so visitors can interact with [...]
Launching Your Website – Part 8
Set Up Google Analytics on your website. This will tell you where your traffic is coming from when you launch, and also give you a good starting point to see how your seo efforts have improved your sites hits.
Launching Your Website – Part 7
Build a list of people & companies you are going to contact when the site launches. Friends, family, local businesses, press, local council, your bank, business link, theres plenty of people you should tell.
Remember theres also social friends that need to know about your new website.
Depending on your circumstances, you may want to stagger telling [...]
Launching Your Website – Part 6
So you have plenty of ideas and energy, and know exactly where your website is heading in terms of new features etc but do your sites visitors? Probably not unless you have a site “roadmap”.
A site roadmap is a good way to show where your site has come from, where it is currently, and [...]
Part 5 kind of goes hand in hand with Part 3 (building content well in advance) and that is to plan ahead with your next 4-6 weeks of tasks relating to the website.
Have you set up a mailing list, if so when will you mail them?
How is your Google Adwords account doing?
What about search engine rankings, anything happeneing there?
Theres lots [...]
Launching Your Website – Part 4
Start telling people the site is about to launch. If you dont want to share the exact details (say for instance its a mini site for a new product that you cant talk about to launch) then drop hints that your company is about to do “something” “sometime” soon.
Its upto you how much you say [...]
Depending on your website purpose you might want to create a good amount of content before going live, and release it slowly over the first few weeks, to keep it fresh and interesting.
This will save you time every day when you may be concentrating on other aspects of the website, such as SEO or online marketing. This also doubles up [...]
Launching Your Website Part 2
Test Test Test, and Test some more. Get your friends, family, neighbours all to take a look at the site and give feedback.
Is it easy to use?
Can the user see how to contact you?
Does it put your message across?
I always find it good to ask someone who knows nothing about the project to take a [...]
The first in a 10 step guide (I will publish a new step every day for the next 10 days), this is a quick and easy to follow guide if your thinking about creating / launching a new website. It wont cover absolutely everything, but certainly enough to give you a head start.
Step 1.
Sort out your website hosting. You need [...]
Its no secret that Google places a great deal of weight on the Page Title of a web page, but this article I found recent discovered on Six Revisions covers some of the basic common mistakes.
Its a great quick read for anyone starting out in website design and/or web site SEO.
You can find the “5 Common SEO Mistakes With Web [...]
