The Blog extension gives you a noteworthy opportunity to communicate with your regular customers and casual visitors. With Blog you can create an interactive two-way communication platform to provide official information on your store news, upcoming products, promotions, and get customers’ feedback.

Plugin is available from

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/aheadworks/extension/1516/blog-extension-by-aheadworks

Adding blog Post to multiple CMS pages

This mod will allow you to add blog posts from specific categories onto specific CMS pages.

/public_html/app/code/community/AW/Blog/Block/Blog.php

Change existing code to

class AW_Blog_Block_Blog extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
{
public function getPosts($catfilter)
{

if(!$catfilter) {
$catfilter = 1;
}

$tag = $this->getRequest()->getParam(‘tag’);

$collection = Mage::getModel(‘blog/blog’)->getCollection()
->addPresentFilter()
->addStoreFilter(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())
->setOrder(‘created_time ‘, ‘desc’)
->addCatFilter($catfilter);

In /public_html/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/aw_blog copy blog.phtml to blog-cmspagename.phtml

In the new phtml file change the first few lines

getPosts(3); ?> // 3 is the blog category id



if ($i++ > $limit) break;

In the admin backend, goto CMS>Page>Your Page
In Content, Add

{{block type=”blog/blog” name=”blog” alias=”list_blog” template=”aw_blog/blog-cmspagename.phtml”}}

In Design, Add

With the release of Internet Explorer 9, cufon would fail to work and text would not be displayed.

A fix to this is to add the following text before the Cufon call

Alternatively, you can update your copy of cufon-yui.js from http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/

To configure google analytics within Magento couldn’t be simpler.

1. Go to your admin control panel and navigate to System > Configuration > Sales > Google API > Google Analytics
2. Select enable to ‘Yes’
3. Enter your google analytics account number ‘XX-XXXXXXXX-X’

You may need to refresh the site cache (always recommended after making changes to site configuration)

To register for a google analytics account number, register for free at Google Analytics

Solution Design

We can help you keep track of jobs, sending new jobs to your engineers and sales leads to your sales team via mobile handheld devices.
This immediate communication can also be used to ensure your engineers have the materials allocated to them and to keep track of material stock levels.
Finally jobs tracking allows you to be sure they have been charged and invoiced correctly, allowing your business to operate in an interconnected and highly responsive manner.

Document Indexing and Management Systems

These systems will track all your documents and we can help with choosing the right document scanner to match your volume.
DMS systems can also index POD`s, work sheets, purchase orders and invoices and all documents will refer to your own job numbers or references. Completed job sheets will automatically be transmitted by email or FTP and any pending invoices could be displayed.

Purchase Order Systems

Purchase Order Systems allow your users to raise purchase orders depending on their allowed spend level, transmit purchase orders to your suppliers in many formats and track receipt of purchased goods and services. Keep track of the status of all those Purchase Orders.

All services are all available along with data recovery UK wide, we can give you the right software for your needs, tailored to maximize your company`s data efficiency.

Izzy Wizzy Magic supply magic tricks to professional performers and amateurs alike.
IZM wanted a ‘no holds barred’ ecommerce solution, so we offered Magento as it offers everything needed.

• Import products from previous site
• Multipul currancies
• Customer Newletters

See the site > Izzy Wizzy Magic

One of the things that makes Magento great is being able to keep your customers up to date by sending emails.

• Confirmation of order
• Confirmation of payment received
• Confirmation of shipment
• Confirmation of order status change
• Confirmation of account setup
• etc…

You can bespoke the layout and text within the emails by updating the html within the following file location

root/app/locale/en_US/template/email

Depending on the version of Magento, dont forget to replace ‘Demo Store’ with the name of your store!!

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Business Directories are useful in that they (often) provide useful back-links to your own site, as well as promoting B2B awareness of your website, company, product and services.

Directories

	UK Small Business Directory
	FreeIndex.co.uk
	Thomson Local
	Yell.com
	Google Maps
	TouchLocal.com
	Start Your Own Business
	Free article submission

Resource

UK Business Forums
The Wholesale Forums

Introduction

Magento is an open-source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework. Magento is feature-rich and boasts an excellent and ever-expanding support community.

When viewing an e-commerce solution using Magento, the product prices are displayed in as GBP, EURO’s and/or US Dollars. The user can swap between the different currencies by selecting the currency from a drop down box. This is fine and works well, but a web designer when wish to display these options using graphical icons:-

This short tutorial shows one method of making this adjustment.

currency.phtml

Locate a file called currency.phtml in root/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/directory.
Depending on the template you use, the file may be located elsewhere in your directory structure.

The part of the code we are looking to replace is this:-

replace with

Images

Save the images below to root/media/currency as EUR.jpg, EUR_active.jpg, USD.jpg, USD_active.jpg, GBP.jpg and GBP_active.jpg

All Done!