Magento (community edition) is definitely one of the best Ecommerce platforms out there. But Magento has significant drawbacks and as it grows more and more popular, more and more people are also looking for simpler, better suited alternatives for their Ecommerce website.
Keep reading and watch a screencast video on how to get an Ecommerce website in under 5 minutes using a great alternative to Magento. (more…)
This is another popular question. Often you want to show items on a CMS page rather than a regular category page. But you still want to have the layered navigation to filter results like it appears by default with Magento at the category level (when listing products).
To add Magento’s layered navigation to a CMS page where you’re showing items simply edit your CMS page in the admin – under the “Design” tab put this code:
<reference name="left">
<block type="catalog/layer_view" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml"/>
</reference>
That will show the layered navigation at the very top of the left column on your CMS page. Of course make sure your CMS page layout is “2column with left bar” (under “layout” in the “Design” tab). (more…)
Magento 1.4 comes built in with a wysiwyg editor that is there to make it easy for less savvy users to edit rich content on their store’s home page, content pages, product descriptions etc without HTML knowledge.
There is also an option to hide the editor in case you want to use external code and paste it there or if you want to edit the HTML directly.
If you know HTML, you’ll probably want to use your favorite editor and only paste the code in the admin when you’re done (with the editor hidden). The problem is that the editor gets very buggy if you do that and then try to make a small edit directly in the admin – or even if you load the edit page in the admin and save again! That’s because the editor is not hidden by default and when loaded it adds <p> tags everywhere and removes empty divs. Depending on the code you have this will either destroy your content’s formatting on the front-end or make it disappear altogether.
Keep reading for a simple way to solve this annoying issue with the Magento editor! (more…)
Keep this well in mind when creating content for your website! Any website you get from Template Action or Website Temple comes with an extensive (yet very easy-to-use) Content Management System, or CMS. You can quickly and easily edit and update your website any time, without training or prior web design coding knowledge.
This will give you a lot of power over how your website will look. And that’s because web design really is all about content! (more…)
We’re one of the most productive web design company out there and every once in a while it’s nice to look back at some of our achievements. So here is a short list of projects we recently launched (these are our own projects – not clients’ projects):
Website Temple – our best achievement so far! It took us a year of hard work to launch this innovative web start-up. Not only did we complete the design and development of Website Temple itself – but we also designed all the websites available in Website Temple’s library! More than 100 cutting edge, state-of-the-art websites! Including business websites, Flash websites, Ecommerce websites, social networking websites, and more! Oh and did I mention that all the sites come with an extensive (yet very easy to use!) Content Managment System to edit and customize the site?
Magento Expert – our latest project! We are planning on launching this very exiting niche website today or tomorrow! Magento Expert is a store for everything Magento, from premium Magento themes, to Magento extensions and custom services. The site also also makes easily available all the quality free Magento themes available today, as well as the best free Magento extensions and widgets.
The Web Design Gallery – our own web design gallery which is mainly populated with user contributions. It’s a great gallery to browse sites for inspiration and for website owners who want to improve their search engine ranking with inbound linking.
NYC based web design company launched a great new web startup called Website Temple. The new business provides a solution for companies and individuals requiring innovative and professionally designed websites at a competitive price including unlimited web hosting, support, domain name, etc…
Website Templeis an online portal that offers websites combined with a specially designed Content Management System (CMS) for ease of website management to consumers at a low cost. The venture marries the high-end, custom web development along with the ever-growing need in the marketplace for fast and simple web solutions.
Website Templesignificantly differs from its competitors: superb quality combined with all-inclusive services at affordable prices. Months of development went into the design and structure of the underlying Content Management Systems (CMS), ensuring that all available website designs remain high-end and flexible, yet easily customizable. Modifying one’s website content is made as easy as using Microsoft word, no web programming knowledge is required at all. Artists can present their work in online galleries, companies can sell their products through e-commerce portals, lawyers, bloggers, accountants, and designers alike… Any individual from the vast multitude of careers and interests can quickly acquire a professional web presence through Website Temple. (more…)
As web design clients become accustomed to web 2.0 design, they demand more user-friendly control over the website’s content, but to the developer such a request can be a programming nightmare. While some look to WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla as a remedy, these options are wholly insufficient if the customer requires a complex website with Flash, Javascript and Ajax or wants the option to change graphical elements within the template itself. (more…)
The web design world can sometimes be an intricate labyrinth for someone looking for a professional website. The website design and web development field is particularly tricky and difficult to navigate through – there are a lot of web design companies, countless freelance web designers, website design softwares, web templates, and what not! In this post, I will try to shed some light on the process of getting a professional website design solution, list the available options, and the pitfalls to avoid. (more…)
I received an interesting email last night about a web based CMS for XML driven Flash websites, I thought I’d share it with our dear readers!
James McNess recently released a lite Flash CMS called Rainbow Live, and was hoping it’s relevant to readers of our blog. James says he would love the chance to get the word out as he thinks Rainbow is a really great way to quickly and easily add CMS functionality to Flash files that use external XML, it fills the niche between heavy database driven CMS and XML editor. So if you are interested, read more about Rainbow.
We have developed countlessed Content Management Systems (CMS) for Flash driven websites, using XML technologies. And the funny part of the story is that a few hours before I received the email, I was talking with Richard about a somewhat similar idea – the possibility of creating a full blown CMS on the fly, simply based on XML files.
Noam Design is running a very popular program that lets anyone with the skills necessary to design high quality websites, sell their work and make a significant profit.
Noam Design uses the material bought through this program for an internal project (coming soon!) and NOT for any clients projects as all our web design and web development work is 100% custom made from scratch by our team.
The way the program works is that you submit a complete website or theme that is 100% ready (with dummy content). Upon review of your creation, Noam Design makes you an offer and you are free to accept or reject it. Noam Design is offering the most competitive compensation in the web design market so this is an excellent program that can generate very significant revenue! Some of the participants are making thousands of dollars a months, selling us beautiful websites. (more…)