How to turn on Template Hints for the Magento Admin Area
Need a quick way to turn on Template Hints for the Magento admin area? It’s easy to turn them on for the front-end of the site, but if you need to do this for your Magento Admin area (for example,...
View ArticleMagento Enterprise Home Page Error 404 Bug Solved
From the (Linux) Desktop of a Certified Magento Developer: Magento Enterprise Error 404 for Home Page (Solved!) Are you having difficulty with a Magento Enterprise site’s home page showing a 404 error?...
View ArticleMagento Community USPS Shipping Error Bug – 1.9.1.0
USPS Shipping Bug in Magento (Solved!) Magento Bug Report: USPS Shipping Not Working in Magento Community 1.9.1.0 Cause of Bug: ZIP+4 vs. ZIP code – fails via USPS API Magento Error Message:...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Upheld – A Win For Anyone With a Website
I was thrilled to hear this week that the chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, is defending net neutrality. It’s wonderful news for anyone that runs a Website, as well as for end users. I believe that...
View ArticleMagento Admin – Changing Passwords to Lock Out Older Users
A quick note about changing Magento Admin users to lock out older users that you no longer want to have in your Magento admin area: If you have an older employee that you want to remove access for,...
View ArticleBe Paranoid About Backing Up Your Site
I received quite a bit of feedback from last week’s email about hacking. And one of the key things that I was asked was, "Is there an easy way to back my site?" Fortunately, there is. Backing up...
View ArticleExpert Tip for Magento – Searching The Entire Magento Database
If you’re trying to find a specific piece of content in the Magento database, there’s usually not an easy way to search through all of the tables quickly and easily. (At least without a lot of...
View ArticleGodaddy Crons Not Working / Not Firing
Over the weekend (May 9, 2015) , a couple of cron functions stopped working for a client that is hosted on Godaddy. For whatever reason, the site’s path to execute the cron was not working. And even...
View ArticleMagento API Shipping Email Notification Bug (Solved)
Solving Magento API shipment notification and tracking problems If you want to use the Magento API to handle shipment notification for your customers and add tracking numbers into the email sent to an...
View ArticleEmergency Bypass: Magento’s Saved Credit Card Option
Last Tuesday (and for a little while on Wednesday), Authorize.net’s payment gateway was down. Authorize.net is one of the top ways that eCommerce stores take payments, so it meant a lot of lost...
View ArticleMagento Security Vulnerability with Open Git Directory
Is your Magento .git repository exposed and vulnerable? Git is an amazing platform that allows for version control on many sites, including Magento commerce sites. According to the official Git...
View ArticleMagento Bug: Magento Customer Create Date Juxtaposition
Magento Bug Report Summary: The Customer Account Creation Date is often wrong (i.e. Customer Account Create Date is in the past or future). Magento versions affected: Magento Community 1.8, 1.9;...
View ArticleCreating mp3 files for a website… from an iPhone
I needed to create a few audio mp3 files for a website, but needed to do it in a hurry. Instead of running home to get advanced audio equipment, I just used the voice recorder function on the iPhone...
View ArticleThis is the First Photo Ever Uploaded to the Internet
As a photographer who has uploaded tens of thousands of images a year to the Internet, I loved this story about the first photo ever uploaded to the Internet by Tim Berners-Lee and his team when they...
View ArticleGodaddy DNS Servers Attacked – Millions of Websites Down
September 10, 2012. If you are wondering why many of the sites you want to visit seem down today, it may be due to a widespread attack on Godaddy’s DNS servers. Godaddy is one of the largest domain...
View ArticleUpdate on Site Load Speed – 96% Increase in Website Load Time
888.772.0777 303.473.4400 A quick follow up on last week’s Godaddy DNS server incident: according to an article in the New York Times, Godaddy claims the outage occured due to an internal network error...
View Article7 Tips to Get Your Magento Website Ready for the Holidays: Payment Methods
Did you know that 12% of eCommerce transactions in the US use PayPal? One of the key tips for making sure your website will perform properly for the upcoming holidays is making sure that you have all...
View ArticleColorado – Entrepreneurial by Nature
We’re thrilled to be part of Colorado’s Entrepreneurial culture… that’s why we’re happy to display this logo on our site: More info >>
View ArticleMagento Tutorial: The Six Different Types of Magento Products – Built In
One common theme I’ve heard from many of our Magento clients is that they don’t always know all of the features their eCommerce site has – out of the box. Over the next several weeks, I’ll start to...
View ArticleHow Google Perceives Images for SEO
For everyone in the US, I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July. I was able to photograph the fireworks here in Boulder, Colorado… and of course that led me to think about how Google "perceives"...
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