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Book Review: Magento 1.3 – PHP Developer’s Guide

Jake Rutter — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:23:25 +0000

I recently read Magento 1.3: PHP Developer’s Guide, a book on how to extend Magento using PHP for developers. The book jumps around a bit, it feels as though the offer just wanted to outline a few key tutorials, while [...]

6 Steps to creating a featured products jQuery slider for Magento

Jake Rutter — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:13:25 +0000

This tutorial has come out of necessity for a homepage featured product slider, I had tried quite a few different tutorials but never achieved what I was looking for. Magento is a great open-source ecommerce package, but Im a little [...]

Helpful Magento Tutorials from the Web

Jake Rutter — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:33:59 +0000

Magento Tutorials

Im compiling a list of the best tutorials from the web for Magento.

Magento Official Documentation: Screencasts Magento User Guide Designers Guide Knowledge Base Webinar Archive Magento Forums Wiki

If after searching through all of these resources on the Magento Site and you still can find what [...]

Magento: Getting Table Rates to work with v1.1.6

Jake Rutter — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:50:26 +0000

Getting Table Rates to work with v1.1.6 was trivial. Magento has a great tool built-in for uploading a spread-sheet that contains your table rates. I tried this about 3-4 times before realizing that there must be a bug after seeing [...]

Magento: Custom Category Images Listing Block Tutorial

Jake Rutter — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:32:03 +0000

Recently, I just finished coding out a website for a client in Magento. You can view the site at www.3graces.com, it was a full switch from some old legacy asp shopping cart to Magento. Im really happy with the way [...]

Magento: How to use the Import/Export Tool

Jake Rutter — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:55:55 +0000

The import/export tool is very useful within Magento. Being that there is limited documentation on the topic, I thought I would add my .02.

Basically you can use the import/export tool to do mass imports of products. It makes it much [...]

An Introduction to Magento: Open Source Ecommerce

Jake Rutter — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:26:46 +0000

I have been learning Magento for the past few months, for a client’s website that I have been working on. Its a pretty robust Open Source Ecommerce plaform that is built on the Zend PHP Framework. At first, it was [...]