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We’re going through the process of design and user experience for a new customer and the usual site navigation questions come up; what should we do about the search? Is it as important as the category...
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Recently, I was working on a scheduled task for a client to update product categories in Magento depending on certain conditions. The usual way to update a product is with the following code:...
View ArticleMini Tutorial: Updating Products in Magento Within Website Scope
Sometimes in Magento you need to write some code to update products programmatically. This may go hand in hand with wanting to batch update products within a certain store or website scope. Recently we...
View ArticleThe Ins and Outs of Code Freeze: Preparing your Website for the 2013 Holiday...
‘Tis the season to be jolly! And, if you are an eCommerce business, ’tis the season for a higher volume of sales, and is the season for putting the last 10 months of planning and preparation to the...
View ArticleHow to add Shopify Options
Shopify is a very flexible eCommerce platform that allows its clients to customize their catalogues according to their respective business needs. In previous tutorials I have discussed how to add...
View ArticleApple Pay, iBeacon, NFC, BLE: Making Sense of the Debate
With the release of Apple Pay on both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+, the debate between NFC (Near Field Communication) and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) intensifies. If I lost you at NFC and BLE, good....
View ArticleMarshmallow Soft Sell: Attention Grabbing Personalized Content
I was on a call with a prospective client recently and we started talking about the difference between the hard sell and the soft sell in the online world. This conversation got me thinking, here in...
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