Varnish Cache is a powerful open source HTTP web accelerator, aka cashing reverse HTTP proxy, which is designed to significantly improve your application performance. Varnish boosts your Magento store by cashing a copy of the page in memory the first time a user browse through that page and then delivers a cached response immediately after…
Hunting Season Opens Off on your holidays tomorrow, are you? Take a well-earned rest, go out and enjoy yourself then, but don’t forget that the holiday buying season is already sneaking into our pockets, and eCommerce businesses that want to gain some green on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday including such festivals as Christmas, Hanukkah, and…
What is a Sitemap? As the name says, it’s a map of your website. Sitemap contains a list of all URLs your website has and Magento sitemap isn’t an exception. It helps search engines to find trails to all your pages and make sure your website is indexed and pages are crawled correctly. Sitemaps can…
This is our fifth tutorial on setting up and configuring different types of products in Magento. This time I would like to talk about virtual products. Certainly, most Magento stores sell primarily physical goods. But if you sell a service or a different kind of product that does not need to be shipped (lack of…
From the moment your potential customer opens your website you have only a few minutes to convince him that you are able to deliver the service. The competition is high and so are the expectations your customers have. Is your website mobile-friendly? Is the design intuitive? Is the payment system trustworthy? Giving the right impression…
Bundle product is one of the types of products available in Magento. This product type allows a customer to choose from a given range of options to create their own customized version of a product. And while a bundle product looks like a single entry in the product catalog, for the merchant this type of…
It was great to read your feedback to my last week’s tutorial on setting up and configuring the grouped products! Among the questions I received was one that was particularly interesting and must be relevant to many of our readers: “How do you tell whether a product has been purchased from the page where it…
After receiving very positive feedback to our tutorial on setting up configurable products last week, I am here to present you another tutorial. This time I will guide you through the process of creating a grouped product. So just to remind you, Magento comes with several preconfigured products. Among these is grouped product. This type…
Sometimes we still have clients just like you, wondering why it is worth investing so much in their custom webshop? And why are custom made websites in general are so expensive? Now, the simple answer to these questions is that there are two key variables that influence the price of your custom website: 1. Quality…
Among the basic types of products you can set up in Magento there are two named simple and configurable. It is not that easy to create a configurable product in Magento, but it totally pays off long-term. To explain the concept of a configurable product in the clearest way, it is best to see it…