Implementing High-Res Images on Magento’s Native Responsive Theme
With retina displays becoming more and more common both on desktops and mobile devices, supplying appropriately high-resolution imagery is an important consideration. Blindly providing high-resolution images, however, wastes bandwidth – a resource in short supply, especially with mobile devices. New specifications allow websites to provide an array of images at different resolutions to the browser […]
Imagine Conference 2014 Was Epic…
It’s been a week since the conclusion of Magento’s Imagine Conference 2014 and the best way we can describe it is “epic.” Here are some bite-sized highlights from the week: -While there, Magento announced the release of Community Edition 1.9 and Enterprise Edition 1.14, which featured a fully responsive front-end built by Classy Llama and […]
Introduction to Responsive Design & eCommerce
The current buzzword/trend in the world of website design and development is “responsive.” It seems everyone wants a responsive site these days. If you’re a merchant, web programmer, or anyone else who deals with online media you’ve probably heard or read about responsive design and might want to know how it applies to you. As […]
21 Powerful Tips for Better Conversions
If it weren’t copyrighted we might title this article “Chicken Soup for the Online Marketer’s Soul.” I know it’s a bit cheesy. But this is practical, nourishing stuff, from an online money-making perspective. The article is all about giving you some rapid-fire bits of wisdom that will increase the performance of your website right away. […]
PayPal Tokenization Extension Now Features Broader Support
In late 2013, Classy Llama released our PayPal Credit Card Tokenization extension. The primary feature of this extension is to introduce a “saved credit card” option for merchants without the necessity of compliance with PCI DSS standards, by leveraging card data stored securely on PayPal instead of on a merchant’s site. Read more of the […]
Multi-Environment Magento Development with Modman
Note: modman, the tool that is the subject of this article, is for *nix or Mac OS X only. As an agency, most of our development at Classy Llama has typically been done in a self-contained context; one site, one codebase, one VCS repository. Even when a particular piece of functionality was reused, it tended […]
Widgets in Magento Commerce
Widgets in Magento Commerce allow business users to insert different kinds of content throughout the front end of their websites without having to write a single line of code. Widgets are a commonly underused feature in Magento, as they aren’t the most intuitive feature and until you create one or two, it is not always […]
Currency in Magento
Magento is built to be an extensible multi-lingual, multicurrency, and multi-national platform. Its flexibility can create significant challenges for merchants and developers alike. This has led me to dig deep into the currency systems that are built into the pricing and sales portions of Magento. At a basic level, native Magento currency options can be […]
Cutting Edge Ecommerce Payments — Accepting Bitcoin on Your Magento Store
Bitcoin, the world’s first digital currency, has been making waves in the economic and e-commerce circles since it was first introduced in 2009. Due to its recent media exposure, you’ve probably heard about Bitcoin and are wondering if this currency offers any competitive advantage to give you and your store an edge. Bitcoin is fundamentally […]
Switching to Desktop When Using Design Exceptions for a Custom Mobile Theme
Amongst the leaders of eCommerce, it is widely known that mobile devices are increasingly comprising a very large segment of web traffic, one which cannot be ignored. The eCommerce Quarterly by Monetate reports that tablets and smartphones accounted for > 21% of all eCommerce traffic in the US during the first half of 2013, compared […]