Magento Development: Magento Setup with Secure Shell (SSH):

Posted on October 1, 2012 by zestadmin

Magento Development is increasing by leaps and bounds. With a view to develop an elegant ecommerce store, Magento is most popular.

In this article, we will know how to install the most recent Magento versions using the code via SSH. This will also include the process of Magento installation with or without specimen data.

Here, we will discuss Magento installation with or without sample information in the main directory or sub directory. The main directory refers to what appears right away while accessing the domain. By default, magento is installed in the sub directory.

With SSH, Magento Setup can be quick and simple. It works best when used to frame up an entire store with sample facts and figures. This type of establishment requires 40MB of data to be downloaded and then re upload to the website. SSH provides the benefit of connecting to the server to capture the files.

Below mentioned are some of the ways to download Magento with SSH:

Magento Setup in the Web Directory (Document root):

wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.7.0.2/magento-1.7.0.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-1.7.0.2.tar.gz
mv magento/* magento/.htaccess .
chmod -R o+w media var
chmod o+w app/etc

Along with the setup, we have to delete the downloaded file and empty the directory from the extracted files:

rm -rf magento/ magento-1.7.0.2.tar.gz

After applying this SSH Code, the web based installation process is to be followed.

Using Pear Downloader to install Magento in the Website Document Root:-

To ease the Magento Development process and with a view to get the latest Magento version installed conveniently, Pear Downloader is the best option. It has an intelligible mechanism to download recent magento versions. Being a minor download, it is updated less frequently as compared to the complete magento package.

Magento Setup in sub directory:

It’s very easy, just replace the current “subdirectory “twice with the name of the subdirectory in which Magento is to be installed.

mkdir SUBDIRECTORY
cd SUBDIRECTORY
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.7.0.0/magento-downloader-1.7.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-downloader-1.7.0.0.tar.gz
rm -rf magento-downloader-1.7.0.0.tar.gz

Magento Setup with Sample Data:

Installing Magento with Sample data is beneficial to the business owners who wish to get accustomed with Magento and know how products and categories are setup in the store.

Again, here it can be established either in root directory or sub directory:

Magento Setup in Main Directory:

It is very similar to installing magento without data in subdirectory as mentioned above. Here, directory name is not required to be known. The things that are to be replaced are: DBHOST, DBNAME, DBUSER and DBPASS.

wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.7.0.2/magento-1.7.0.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-1.7.0.2.tar.gz
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.6.1.0/magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0.tar.gz
mv magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0/media/* magento/media/
mv magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0/magento_sample_data_for_1.6.1.0.sql magento/data.sql
mv magento/* magento/.htaccess* .
chmod -R o+w media var
mysql -h DBHOST -u DBUSER -pDBPASS DBNAME
chmod o+w var var/.htaccess app/etc
rm -rf magento/ magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0/ magento-1.7.0.2.tar.gz magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0.tar.gz data.sql

Magento Setup in Sub directory:

Five main points are to be kept in mind before carrying out this process. These are as follows:

Name of Subdirectory in which Magento installation is to be done.
Hostname of Database, for which local host works.
Database name which is to be used by magento.
Username which has access to the database.
Password of the User.

After getting this information, it is to be copied and replaced with the information in the commands.

In other words, we can say the subdirectory, where Magento is to be setup will be replaced twice as above and also DBHOST, DBNAME, DBUSER and DBPASS are changed.

mkdir SUBDIRECTORY
cd SUBDIRECTORY
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.7.0.0/magento-downloader-1.7.0.0.tar.gz
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.6.1.0/magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-downloader-1.7.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0.tar.gz
mv magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0/media/* magento/media/
mv magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0/magento_sample_data_for_1.6.1.0.sql magento/data.sql
mv magento/* magento/.htaccess .
chmod -R o+w media
mysql -h DBHOST -u DBUSER -pDBPASS DBNAME
./pear mage-setup .
./pear install magento-core/Mage_All_Latest-stable
touch var/.htaccess | mkdir app/etc
chmod o+w var var/.htaccess app/etc
rm -rf downloader/pearlib/cache/* downloader/pearlib/download/*
rm -rf magento/ magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0/
rm -rf magento-downloader-1.7.0.0.tar.gz magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0.tar.gz data.sql

Finishing the Installation via Web Based Installer:

Once the Magento installation via SSH is completed, the business owners can proceed with web based installer. All database details will remain same in that as well.

This work can also be carried out using Command Line Interface (CLI) instead.

Alternatively, SSH script can also be used to automate both the main steps as well as CLI installer.

Trouble Shooting:

Magento Development is not a child’s play. To sort out the issues faced while installing magento, certain recommendations can be followed which are as follows:

Incorrect or Insufficient Permissions:

If any problem persists due to incorrect permissions then it can be sort out using the below mentioned commands:

find. -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;
find. -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;

Using this command will provide 644 permissions to files and 755 permissions to the directories.

URL not available :

If any error message is received stating the unavailability of URL, then it can be solved as following:

./pear mage-setup .
./pear install magento-core/Mage_All_Latest-stable

After making these changes, Magento can be upgraded to the latest version via web based installer.

404 Error on Specimen Products:

While selecting any product on main page, if it shows “error 404 page not found”, then it can be solved as follows:

To solve this error, the user has to login in the backend system of magento and go to:

System -> Cache Management

Another way is to click on the “Refresh Button” in the catalogue section. This will fix the URL structure for the categories as well as the products.

Magento Connection Download from Archived section:

For some reasons, if you wish to download the archived extension, it can be done as follows:

wget http://connect.magentocommerce.com/TYPE/get/EXTENSION_NAME-X.X.X.tgz

“TYPE” must be replaced with real extension type, EXTENSION_NAME with real extension name and X.X.X. must be replaced with real version number.

To know the real type and real machine Extension name, check the extension key and consider its format Magento Type/ Extension Name.

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Magento Development: Organizing Backend Requirements (Part-3)

Posted on August 13, 2012 by zestadmin

In the previous parts of the blog, we have discussed in detail the method of Magento development including the design as well as the user interface functionalities. These things are of great significance when any business owner wishes to hire a Magento developer. Magento developers can go through these parts to get some good information regarding the development of this popular ecommerce platform. Apart from this, such businesspeople who wish to create a magento website or develop an online store with Magento can also go through those sections.

Before hiring any Magento developer, it is advisable to have a look at certain things which should be taken into consideration for magento development. An expert magento developer should be aware of these things. Preparing yourself with the required things can make the task easier.

Here, we are going to discuss about the backend requirements and how they can be organized. Be it Magento Go or any edition of Magento, organizing the backend requirements is of utmost importance. Certain necessary things for backend are Content Management System (CMS), Customer Relationship Management System (CRM), Web Analytics tools and Accounting Systems.

Content Management System is a web application which is useful for monitoring and altering the website content as and when required. Anyone who runs a website can use this system to edit the website content without the knowledge of HTML. This system is available with a username and password with which the authorized person can make the required changes in the website. With Magento, Easy CMS/ Block- free version; the merchants can get an open source CMS that leads to an increased growth. Refer http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/site-management/content-management/easy-cms-block-free-version.html.

Another important requirement is CRM, which makes easy for the businesspeople to keep a track of the data related to customer details, Sales and purchase, stock & Inventory are a few. Magento Vtiger Connector is an integration tool which allows the user to exchange the data from a magento store to Vitger which excels in administering the data. This data exchange includes everything from customer details to invoices. Refer http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/site-management/crm/vtiger-connector.html

Along with these, with a view to boost the sales as well as the store’s online presence; the online merchants can make better use of the web analytics tools that can be easily installed with magento. There are various tools available which can be easily integrated with Magento. One such tool is Runa Sales Lift Integration: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/marketing/analytics/runa-saleslift-integration.html .This tool increases the sales up to 60% with the help of advanced analytics providing the results in real time converting the clicks to customers.

Once the sales boost up, the online shop is likely to get crowd of customers. To maintain the details, of incomes and expenses, a need for accounting system arises. Magento’s accounting system can serve the purpose and can ease the task for the businesspeople. Many magento extensions are available that can be easily integrated with the Magento shop as well as Magento website. Refer http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/integrations/accounts-back-office.html.

One such integration is “Login with PayPal Access”. This integration can be installed for free. It allows the customers to login in the seller’s website with their PayPal User Id and Password. This enables them to access the data which in turn avoids the hassles of registration and checkout simultaneously providing the entire data to the sellers such as customer’s email id, shipping address directly from their PayPal account. Refer http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/integrations/accounts-back-office/log-in-with-paypal-access.html. Taking care of all the backend requirements, business owners can sum up to a complete Magento development.

Considering all the necessary things such as The Magento Design, User- Interface Functionalities and the Backend requirements, Magento Development can be at ease. In addition, before starting with Magento be sure to get all the necessary things required as to which design to choose, template selection, choosing different magento extensions that suit the purpose. Always hire an expert magento developer that can ease the task for you with its vast knowledge in the field.

Good Luck and Happy Magento- Going!!!!

How To Prepare For Magento Development – (Part 2) The User Interface Functionalities

Posted on July 27, 2012 by zestadmin

With the standard architecture of the Magento ecommerce platform there is much functionality that can account for many business’s needs. Have a look at this web page to see what is accounted for in the standard features of a Magento website. http://zesttechsolutions.com/magento-packages

Many companies offer a standard Magento development package that includes the customizations of your product categories and sub categories and the integration of standard secure checkouts, such as PayPal and world Pay. Magento developers will also set up your shopping cart which includes unit price, quantity, weight, tax and more. Another important feature that Magento experts would customizes is the standard promotional functions; these are, up sell, cross promotions, coupon code validations, news letter wish list and more. The best way to get the most out of your Magento developer is to do a detail analysis of your business’s front end functional needs and this way it will make it easier for the Magento development company you choose.

When trying to establish your business’s ecommerce needs for your business analysis you should take into considerations the following aspects to help for your Magento development.

1) What products are you looking to sell and what units are you looking to sell them in, i.e. quantity, weight and length? Also are there going to be variations in your products, such as size and color?

2) Defining your categories and sub categories is another important aspect

3) You need to have a basic idea of the navigation of your website, like what you would want in your navigation bar and what would you like in the left and right panel?

4) What promotional functions you would need in your website, would you need to have coupon code discounts functions and how would you like to up sell and cross sell?

5) Would you like integrate your website with third parties websites like price comparisons website, deal websites, social websites as well as market places such as eBay and Amazon?

6) In regards to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) You need to know what are the keywords people are typing in to search for your products

7) How do your logistics work? Do you use drop shippers or do you send your own stock? How many shipping locations do you have? What shipping companies would you like to use?

The above are just some of the basic aspects you need to consider when choosing a Magento expert. Magento has an extremely large developer community and you would be sure to find the right extension/add-ons if your requirements cannot be fulfilled in the standard architecture of Magento with in Magento Connect.

Within Magento connect you can find more personalized shopping cart functional add-ons that enhance the user experience. Things like one step check out make it easier and less time consuming for your customer - http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/quick-one-page-checkout.html. You could also integrate social functions, i.e have a Facebook store page with beetailer http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/beetailer-facebook-integration.html

You can even boost your product display with powerful and easy to use zoom function http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/customer-experience/category-product-page-enhancements/magic-zoom.html

The above are just some of the thousands of exciting functions that you could find on Magento Connect, even for free, that help your website become a superb user interface.

Be sure to check out Magento Connect while doing your analysis for your customer interface. Your detailed analysis would make you look professional and well organized to a Magento developer (which is very important) and with it along with your design analysis (read part 1 in the previous blog) your Magento development would certainly run a lot smoother.

So we have talked about the customer interface and functional needs of a Magento website and we have stressed the importance of doing an analysis of your particular requirements. In the previous article we mentioned the importance of preparing your design requirements. Both parts of Magento development, Magento front end interface design as well as front end user interface functionality are equally important. It is also important to note that the back end of your user interface and functionality is equally as important as the front end.

Next week is the final part of the blog. In the final part we will talk about the importance of organizing your back end requirements. In this we will talk about content management systems (CMS) as well as customer relationship management systems (CRM). We will also mention about web analytic tools and accounting systems. So after reading all three blogs we hope you could put together a detailed document that breaks down your needs and requirements which helps Magento developer and Magento designers to serve you in the most efficient way.

How To Prepare For Magento Development – (Part 1) The Design

Posted on July 17, 2012 by zestadmin

Preparing a design for Magneto development can be a tricky task. In order to get the best from the Magento developers you should plan your project according how much time you have and how much money you are looking to spend.

When considering the design of your Magento store it is advisable to consider your budget before hand. This is because the more you want to customize your Magento design the more money you would need to spend. If you are looking to save on both money and time than one way to go about it is to purchase a template and ask the Magento development company to customize it for you. There are thousands of fantastic, users friendly and aesthetics templates out there and you can find some of them at http://galathemes.com/magento-themes.html . If you cannot find a template to match the design concept that’s buzzing in that brain of yours then you need to be well prepared to get the most out of the Magento development team.

When trying to elaborate on your brilliant concept to the Magento developers you need to base the initial design concept around your logo design, and if you don’t have one than it’s the first thing you need to create. The color theme and the general outline of the website stems from the design of your visual identity and therefore it is imperative that your logo expresses your brand concept. When this important part of your design becomes concrete you can start painting the virtual picture by considering the specific outlines of your design.

While taking the customized approach you need to contemplate on the following aspects:

1) What are the main design aspects you want in your home page and how do you want them to look like?, i.e. flash banner , your menu bar social buttons and the general navigation

2) How you want your products to be displayed in both the home page and product pages?

3) What additional pages you may require and how you want them to be designed? i.e. contact us, about us, shipping and FAQ

4) How would you want the check out procedure to look?

5) How mobile friendly can you make your design without jeopardizing the initial concept and without incurring more costs?

6) Can your design remain consistent through the various sales channels such as eBay?

7) How would you want to promote your products throughout your website? When you have a promotion or sale does your design needs to account for future seasonal and festive changes?

The above are just some of the points you need to consider when approaching the right Magento developer with your design concept. Whatever design your thinking of its first important to consider your budget and time scale. The more complex the design the more money your website will cost you. Like mentioned, if you want to save money on your design costs and you want to use the resources to spend on your website functionality/extensions and add-ons (the next article) then you should be more inclined to customizing an existing template. And don’t forget that there are thousands of amazing templates that might just match your thinking! Good Luck and make sure you read part 2 of the Magento development article next week, Considering the Functionalities of your Magento website.

ZestTech solutions: A Magento development Company of London in the United Kingdom: ZestTech Solutions have large team of Magento developers that have been Magento experts for over 4 years. ZestTech solutions have created and customized numerous ecommerce websites over the past for years and we at ZestTech take pride in our quality work within stringent timescales

Arrival of Brand New Magento Go Themes

Posted on June 25, 2012 by zestadmin

Magento Go is the most well known ecommerce platform used widely by the small and medium enterprises. It is an excellent invention by the magento members that helps the average business owners to succeed in the ecommerce world. With Magento Go, these people can built cost effective stunning online shop.

To match the business requirements, Magento has come up with variety of Magento Go themes. Using these themes, business people can develop customized e-stores which can quickly gain the focus of the visitors. There are varieties of professions that can be carried out online such as apparel store, kitchenware, furniture, footwear, accessories are a few.

In order to suit the variety of professions, recently Magento team has launched brand new Magento Go themes such as:

HI Fashion for the apparel business
Kitchen goods for the kitchenware business
Top Performance for business such as automobiles
Workshop for enterprisers selling different products such as hand tools
Lingerie for the shops selling different female items.

Above mentioned are few examples of different Magento themes. Using such type of magento themes, an entrepreneur can have a well developed online shop. Well, before adopting these magento templates, it is advisable to have a look at their benefits. Few of them are mentioned below:

Unique and artistic store design
Perfect navigation menu
Contains Psd authorship
Systematic new arrivals display on homepage
Eye-catching shopping cart with a brief outlook
Loads quickly.
Useful to various business arenas
SEO affable
Pacifies the entire designing and programming needs
Successive setup manual
100% open source
And much more.

Integrating the magento template in the online shop or developing the store with the custom magento design will provide the above mentioned benefits which are of great importance for any online shop to be built or any ecommerce website to be created. Magento websites can also be developed by using different magento go designs.

These ecommerce web designs can be installed with the software itself. Everything from softwares to server is to be directed by the Magento itself. To be satisfied, online traders can first get the free 30 days trial and after being satisfied can opt for the particular magento theme that matches their business category.

Once the business owners opt for any Magento Go plan, they can customize the design of the store, use their own domain name, integrate different add ons, using custom SSL certificate and more. However, a single website can be run with a single magento go. Either Magento development can be done by an ecommerce development company or by assigning the task to a magento developer.

Magento developers having hands on experience in the field can quickly accomplish the task. Delegating the task to the magento experts can easily serve the purpose thus allowing the business owners to concentrate on their work.

Things seem to be so easy while reading but the result can be availed once they are put into action. It’s time for the action now; Get ahead to bring the online business among the successful ones and opt for a basic Magento go plan to know the pros and cons of this brilliant ecommerce platform.

Magento Development: Better Option for Ecommerce Development

Posted on June 22, 2012 by zestadmin

E-Commerce is a very well known field in the IT industry that has helped many traders to build their online presence. In context to this, ecommerce websites are developed in number. However, still there lies confusion as to which platform serves the best, open source platform or closed source platform?

Majority would argue that an open source platform serves the best. The reason behind its preference is that many professionals work on it to develop accurate code making it user affable. Moreover, the software is updated on regular basis in terms of performance, structure and more. One of its best features is flexibility. Various types of custom applications can be built using open source software.

On the other hand, closed source software refers to inadequate experience. It pays more attention on security that result into reduction in cost and time taken for development. Closed source software has less community which in turn provides less knowledge. People can get only the software and its services against the money they invest. Concluding the discussion we can say that, experts prefer open source systems such as ecommerce software’s like Magento because they can gain ample development experience when having the back up of a extensive community of fellow developers.

An ecommerce platform such as Magento provides all the features that a shopping cart should have. It is an ecommerce platform with well-framed codes, flexible features, custom magento designs, various types of modules, magento extensions that help the businesspeople to integrate their own online store with magento like eBay magento integration. Along with this, many ecommerce websites can also be developed using this customizable open source software.

Developing magento web design can be a perfect decision for the business owners that can lead them to success. It is an investment assuring favourable outcome and progress in the ecommerce field. Looking to its technical facets, magento is entirely adaptable with a variety of administrative options. Magento shopping carts are highly appreciated by the shoppers due to its scalability and user friendliness. In addition to this, the online shopping carts developed using magento ecommerce are SEO friendly as well.

Magento ecommerce development helps to customize the graphic user interface of the store providing the overall control on the content. Magento ecommerce design includes custom shop layout, different types of payment gateways, variety of shopping carts, magento templates that matches the business requirements, product search and product listings by category, price, colour, design are a few. An expert magento developer can build a dynamic magento store having all the features.

Magento developers are the field experts dealing with numerous magento aspects such as upgrades, migrations and extension configurations on a daily basis. This experience makes them proficient in the dominion. As a result, Magento designers are well versed and can develop any online store according to the client’s needs. Hiring a magento developer can serve the purpose in a better way.

Magento development done either by a magento designer or by a magento development company is sure to make the business eligible to gain the heights and get ahead among the fellow competitors ensuring better business leverage.

Features of M2E: Magento to eBay Integration

Posted on June 15, 2012 by zestadmin

Magento and eBay are two very well known names in e-commerce. Many online traders have both a Magento shopping cart as well as an eBay store. Merchants are looking to save time and in turn money by cutting the administration efforts of running multiple online vends. We can easily integrate our eBay store with Magento using M2E pro, a Magento extension. This extension will surely lesson your efforts. M2E is a bond between Magento and eBay.

Using this extension in eBay we can reach to the mass market from one effective hub. Magento M2E is available with free support. With the help of this pro extension, sellers can manage the eBay listings as well as other online shops from a single platform. It has the facility to interact with more than 20 eBay marketplaces such as eBay motors.

This extension Magento helps the businesses with insistent tasks, managing the inventory, updates as well as the listings by third party dealers. M2E pro is one of the Magento extensions that can be used with different eBay accounts from one Magento store. This extension for Magento allows the seller to make changes in product, price and quantity. eBay listings with this pro extension get updated inevitably. For example, changing a template design will affect all the listings having that template design.

Along with this, easy navigation is provided by the listing templates through different divisions such as General, Price, Description, eBay shop, payment and returns are a few. It also supports different listing ways such as fix price, auction and shop catalog. Once the item is sold, this extension for Magento considers them as Magento orders. All the eBay orders are treated as Magento orders. Automatic feedback system is also available. The entire order completion process can be seen on eBay along with the complete shipping details such as shipping status, tracking number and more.

Every individual eBay account has compatible settings for its eBay transactions that can be tweaked when needed. With all these features, this extension also provides various global configuration options such as synchronizing all eBay accounts at one place, enabling or disabling useful notifications, activating the eBay marketplaces that we need.

The extension possesses extreme loggings such as listing logs which include complete listing process from adding the listings to the shop, revising them, changes to price & quantity, re-listing, deletions and more. Third party listing logs includes detailed information of the third party listings from importing from third party, listing them on eBay, various actions such as revising them, notifications and more. Synchronization log includes template designs, orders and feedback. The users can clear the log files if they want.

The above mentioned features make pro extension popular. There are certain Magento development companies that render the complete Magento services including Magento extensions. The business owners can reach to them and along with installation of Magento; extensions for Magento can also be installed. Magento Go, an ecommerce platform used by small and medium enterprises to get the advantage of Magento ecommerce can also be integrated with eBay.

Magento connect offers variety of Magento extensions like the one discussed here. Some of the well known extensions are Mage store affiliate, Ajax cart pro, Gala Rossi, Magento extension CMS pro, Magento extension help desk pro. To take the utmost benefit this brilliant ecommerce platform, start using magneto connect today.

Specific Requirements Before Getting Started With Magento Development

Posted on May 29, 2012 by zestadmin

As we all know, Magento is the well known open source software widely used to develop online stores with overall functionalities such as Magento design, Search box, Payment gateways, Product description, Product display with multiple images, searching product through Size, Category, Colour, Variation type and more. Certain online traders wish to develop an online store according to their own needs which suits their business requirements perfectly. Custom Magento designs; custom magento templates fulfil these needs of the businesspeople. Online traders can get a fully customized Magento store including all the functionalities.

Getting a stunning ecommerce store developed on such a brilliant ecommerce platform can be the first step towards success for an online business. To get this task done, Magento developers are required. Currently, Magento developer(s) are in huge demand. However, before commencing the magento development, here are some cues that can be of great use for the Magento Professionals:

Backend: Select “System> Configuration, then Advanced > Configuration. A dialog box as shown below will appear. In the Debug section, enable “profiler” and in the “Template settings”, enable “Log settings”. You can see File Location directory is /var directory. Please ensure that this directory allows writing in the file.

Then activate the “Developer Mode” in the programming part, in vhost configuration. To activate the developer mode, insert this command in the vhost configuration :

Altering the index.PHP file:
In order to activate the Varien Profiler and display the errors, the index.php file is to be edited. The index.php should view as given in the below image:

Checking MySQL: With respect to know which queries take long time to load the page; we can log all the queries to determine the query that takes the longest time. This can be done by modifying the script as follows :
- By altering the lib/Varien/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Mysql.php and set to true: $_debug, $_logCallStack and set to “0″ the $_logQueryTime value.
- Preparing a writable directory in var called debug (that is, var/debug) in your magento directory.

Necessary Magento extensions:Extensions are installed to get help while developing an ecommerce store on Magento. All extensions are not Magento compatible. The compatible ones are Web developer toolbar and Layout analyzer.
- Web development toolbar: This extension is used to add tool buttons in the top right website corner. This allows us to see block information, clear cache, allow translation, block any pages, allow blocked content and more.
- Lay out Analyzer: With the help of this extension, the preview of the store layout can be seen before making it live. Final XML Layout can also be viewed.

Using all the above mentioned tools and some more, Magento development can be accomplished easily. However, the tools should be handy as at times it becomes difficult to establish and modify the Magento based online store.

ZestTech Solutions, deals in Magento development services including easy magento development with the use of latest magento development ways.

Magento Update: Latest Magento Enterprise and Community have been launched

Posted on May 23, 2012 by zestadmin

Magento, as we all know is the well known open source ecommerce platform having the customizable features and functionalities. The demand for Magento and Magento Go is rising dramatically. The ecommerce industry keeps updating on daily basis. With a view to meet the changing demands, open source platforms such as Magento and Oscommerce also get updated on regular basis.

Recently, new versions of Magento known as Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Magento Community 1.7 have come into the lime light. The Magento developer Uk can create magento versions that are fully featured providing the business people with various wish lists, order placement, mobile optimization, nurture brand integrity and more. These versions can be used by any of the online traders including B2B commerce. These Magento versions are launched with a view to offer more substantiate shopping exposure.

However, the businesspeople might think what benefits they will get by using new Magento versions; Magento 1.12 and Magento 1.7. Those who are already using Magento as an ecommerce platform can easily differentiate between the features of the current Magento version and latest one. The new comers in the magento industry are definitely going to like it as it will make their online business smoother than ever. In order to know the new Magento in a better way let’s have a look at its top benefits:

HTML 5 for mobile: The magento developer UK can create storefronts that can be easily used on mobile making purchases easy for the buyers 24/7. Best supportable with Android and I phones. This application has many innovative features such as clear exposure of the store pages , easy navigation between the pages, convenient search result display, cross selling and up selling, product drag n drop facility are a few.

Identifying the viewers: On regular basis, lots of visitors come across the online store. The new magento versions help to differentiate between the regular users and the new visitors converting the new clicks into customers.

Aspired Viewers: With a perspective of reaching to the target customers, certain schemes are applied such as special offers, cross selling and up selling to provide perfect shopping experience. This feature is available in Magento enterprise 1.12

Creating promotional codes: When any trader has applied promotional schemes to the products, this feature helps to generate the codes by itself which the seller can circulate among its customers via email and other distribution methods. Along with distribution, this feature also helps to keep the check on the use of coupons as well as maintain the reports.

Different Chain values: This feature allows traders to keep different prices for different cluster of customers such as dealers, retailers, direct customers, new customers, regular customers and more.

Back up and Roll Back: This feature enables the online merchants to administer and line up the backup functions along with the rollback feature used to converse the changes made in the store or store pages. It works best Magento developers UK customize any store or upgrade the store with new magento versions. The backup is used for database backup, system backup and media backup.

Above mentioned are some of the best features of the Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Magento Community 1.7.

ZestTech Solutions, a UK based Magento Development Company provides the Magento services with the latest Magento versions ensuring your business to reach at the next level offering you strong success in the field of ecommerce.

Magento Development – the effective eCommerce solution for Business People

Posted on May 18, 2012 by zestadmin

Among the best ecommerce solutions available in the market, Magento development is one of the ecommerce solutions which make the online store management easy. It has brought good fortune for businesspeople, as with magento they can easily get customers via good SEO efforts and products can be sold easily without too much marketing. The features of Magento such as multilingual support, user friendly interface play a vital role in increasing the ROI which is the main concern of the people involved in business.

As compared to other ecommerce solutions, Magento is the robust and cost effective ecommerce solution. It helps the businesspeople to stay ahead among the competitors in the ecommerce world. With the help of magento, you can build an enchanting ecommerce website. Certain unique characteristics of Magento such as flexibility to customize the online store, while easily identifying the products by price, name, category and more make it the complete powerful ecommerce development solution.

Magento, being adaptable with all the browsers is more popular. Sometimes, businessmen wish to develop an online store as per its needs, this is very easy with the custom magento development which includes custom magento templates, custom magento themes, magento connect, magento ecommerce design and more. Magento development is possible by two ways either by hiring an expert Magento developer or by delegating the task to a well known Magento development company.

Hiring a Magento developer can be a good decision for the people who have just entered into the online business while those who are already successfully running their online stores and want to stay ahead among the competitors can delegate the task to a renowned Magento development company. Online traders can also integrate their ecommerce stores with Magento. If an online seller already has its ecommerce store on eBay or any shopping website, then that store can be integrated with the Magento making it more attractive and customizable.

However, even a small business enterprise can venture into the ecommerce world by using Magento Go, a perfect ecommerce solution for small and medium enterprises. Magento Go consists of attractive magento templates, customizable magento themes, magento templates and more available at a moderate cost. Be it Magento Go or entire Magento Development, you can get the best magento services from any of the reputed Magento Development companies.

Before choosing a Magento Development company to delegate the task to; analysis should be done regarding its policy, time fulfillment, consistency, quality of work, relationship with the former clients, trustworthiness, goodwill are a few. Apart from this, ensure that the company provides entire Magento development services including Magento connect, custom Magento Design, Magento ecommerce design, magento ecommerce development, magento module development and all those services updated on daily basis in the market. Fix your objective, your designs, your budget and your needs; then finally start searching for the Magento Development Company that matches your criteria and provides you with the better magento ecommerce solutions ensuring you success and excellence in the long run in the growing ecommerce world.

ZestTech Solutions, aims at providing industry best magento development solutions to all the online traders making their online business successful and progressive. The success of ZestTech lies in the success of its clients. Give us a chance to serve you and you will be among the successful online sellers.

Developing your website the Magento way is the best solution for your eCommerce website

Posted on May 9, 2012 by zestadmin

ZestTech Solutions have adopted the Magento way of life and become experts in providing Magento development, Magento eCommerce development, Magento design and web design services in , USA, Australia and India.

So you may ask what is Magento and how can Magento help my business? Very easily says ZestTech who has a dedicated and excellent Magento eCommerce Development services team.

What Magento basically does is that it grows your business by providing user friendly technology. As a business you can control your e-commerce website by changing various functions e.g. payment related, updating content, swapping between stores, corresponding internationally and much more so that you are always ahead of the game and with ZestTech’s Magento design UK and web design services you always look good.

It may sound complicated but once integrated into your systems by expert Magento developers, ZestTech Solutions it can be used by anyone. No advanced technical knowledge is required as Magento has an excellent easy to use interface system.

So what are the features? Magento offers a number of functions whereby you can generate reports, view your product information and update it through a product catalogue system. You can also import and export batch reports relating to your products or customer information. More importantly you can create multiple stores and manage them through a simple admin panel that allows you to make changes and instantly see them reproduced on your stores website.

Magento also provides a multi-language interface so you can replicate your website instantaneously from one language to another and together with multi-currency functionality you can benefit from maximum customers hitting your website. It allows your stores to be seen internationally so that you can start to cater for their needs thereby expanding your business empire.

Magento’s admin management system allows you to control multiple users and allocate necessary permissions very easily so that your business is always in control.

ZestTech Solutions, a company for Magento Development UK, provide a complete Magento Development Service from their offices in and can also provide Magento web design and Magento design services so that you are completely Magento ed up! Since Magento integrates easily with other systems and has a wide range of extensions it will only be a matter of minutes before you are benefiting from Magento. ZestTech can help you every step of the way with their excellent Magento eCommerce development services provided in the UK and India.

ZestTech CEO says “If you are looking for a good and robust eCommerce solution for your business then Magento is the only way forward, we’ve tested it and implemented it in 100s of business and all with positive results, what more do you need”.

You heard it from ZestTech so what are you waiting for pick up that phone and become a fan of Magento.

ZestTech Solutions are a professional IT solutions company with offices in the , they have become the well known experts in Magento development services. Visit zesttechsolutions.com to contact them.

Unique Magento Development Solutions,

Posted on April 27, 2012 by zestadmin

Magento Development is among the best ecommerce solutions. Magento Development is the open source ecommerce software that is used on the priority basis by most of the companies. Magento is the ecommerce software with attractive features, available at reasonable cost and easily built in less time. Magento is the cost effective software that fulfills the main purpose of any businessman: to increase ROI. With the help of Magento, we can make powerful and user friendly app store. Magento offers a great platform to those who wish to manage, control the vast online stores in a better manner.

To build an elegant and attractive ecommerce website, Magento development techniques are the best. There are many ecommerce solutions companies that provide the Magento development services. Zesttech Solutions, a UK based ecommerce Solutions Company deals with the Magento Development solutions. Along with this, Magento Go and Magento templates development services are also provided. Magento Go is a boon for the small and medium business enterprises. They can easily avail the benefit of online business at a minimal cost.

Magento store includes the shipping cart, search box, online store operations, multilingual support, premium hosting, listing the number of items together and more. Its flexibility enables the businessman to generate more revenue. In order to design Magento store as per the needs of the customer and its business that suits the business perfectly, custom Magento Development is used. To create such design, the entire business is to be known, understood by the Magento Developers. Then, as per the necessary requirements, the pattern is to be framed so that it helps the business owner to generate handsome of cash.

Magento cart is one of the user friendly features. It allows the buyer to buy the items as pr his choice, buy more than one item at a single moment. It controls every step from trading to promotions. The creativity of Magento cart is unending. Magento cart has SEO features that help to get the qualified customers resulting into better business growth. Magento templates include inbuilt CMS, Payment integration and multi store facility which sum ups to everything that is required to start a new online shop.

Our organization, United Kingdoms, offers the entire Magneto services including Magento Development, Magento Go, creation of Magento stores, well developed Magento templates, and more. At nominal cost, you can get the best services at the door step. Magento Developers at Zesttech are proficient in creating the customized Magento stores including Magento connect Magento widgets, payment gateways, Magento module development and more that completes the entire Magento ecommerce development.

Magento module is used to customize the features of an eCommerce website. Magento modules include order management module, payment gateway, credit facility and more. Magento module development services include development and integration of third party payment gateway, generating the Magento theme for a website, adding and upgrading Magento features, customizing admin module and more.

At Zesttech, proficient Magento developers are available to design such Magento modules. Zesttech excels in offering the Magento developing services which can turn the website into a dynamic one.

Magento eCommerce Development UK

Posted on March 30, 2012 by zestadmin

Magento is one of the popular eCommerce solutions having great significance in the field of Ecommerce. In order to expand the business online via ecommerce, certain ecommerce softwares should be adopted. When we are to select among these softwares, Magento is the one that gets priority. Magento is maintained by Varian, a company completely responsible for this open source software. It has a commercial license. With the help of this open source software, one can upgrade the product list, open multi lingual stores, allow customers to select the products as per color, price , category and many other features of the product. Magento provides the ultimate ecommerce solutions, guiding its users to boost their business and stay ahead among the competitors.

With Magento Development, you can bring success at your door steps.

Star points of Magento:

Extensibility to change the look, content etc.
Online store operations.
Multilingual support
Sorting of products by price, color, category, etc matching to our needs.
Selecting certain items to make it a unique offer.
Enhance the sales through all the channels.
Multi payment options.
Can ship a single product to various domiciles
Supports in display of number of images of a product.

With all the above mentioned features, the business can gain lots of cash.

ZestTech Solutions, based in UK, deals into Magento Development that involves Magento Connect, Magento Ecommerce Design, Magento ecommerce Development, Custom Magento Design. These all are the sub parts of Magento that helps to improve its look, making the business better online, among the rivals.

Magento Connect:

A Gadget that allows downloading and installing extensions which are complementary to Plug-ins and modules on other platforms and permits to modify, affix powers to Magneto is known as Magento Connect.

Helps to expand and turn over a new leaf to the market.
Provides the benefit to get connected with the social media.
Involves third party reinforces such as eBay and PayPal.
Supports Mail marketing, downloading extensions and Analytics.

Magento Ecommerce Design:

Different Magento designs are drafted in order to make it attractive. These designs include the combination of artistry and visual arts that leads into creation of exciting, operational and purposeful websites. There are certain reasons behind the use of Magento ecommerce design:

Perfectly designed website delivers a picture of an efficient company.
Smooth navigation with a fair direction to purchase.
Rouses the maximum clicks that speed up sales.
Enhance the newcomers to make an endless stay on the site.

Magento Ecommerce Development:

Magento ecommerce solutions arena has turned into Magento Ecommerce development gaining popularity throughout the sphere. This platform consists of Magento website design, Developing Magento website, Creating design of various Magento Themes and their improvement, Custom Magento combination, Enrichment of Magento Shopping carts and Shopping cart solutions.

Custom Magento Design:

To dream up the pattern of Magento as per the needs of customer and its business that suits the business perfectly is termed as Custom Magento Design. To create such design, the entire business is to be known, understood by the Magento Developers. Then, as per the necessary requirements, the pattern is to be framed so that it helps the business owner to generate handsome of cash.

Preference of Custom Magento Design:

Supports our clients to create Cash.
Develops an excellent shell for the software.
Aims to create dazzling Magento themes enforcing clients to visit again.
Builds an exclusive pattern to Suit Company’s status and its features.

With the help of all these features, you can improve your Magento to a better style.

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