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Being an online vendor, you may not always have the possibility to contact your customers directly. Hence -the support tickets, online chat, customer reviews, forums, and telephone orders, which are probably the only way to get feedback from the client. Unfortunately, most of them do not always give a sincere opinion about completed purchases, and take too much time and attention, because it is the only way to gather and organize the right amount of information.

After tests are finished, it is good to clean database with any unnecessary accounts. Below commands should remove unliked writings from the customer's charts.

Every implementation is followed by the moment when removing some testing and badly imported files is necessary. If their amount is not high, this can be done from the level of administration panel. What if we need to remove thousands of products? Of course this can be done by sitting hour after hour doing this manually but what we also can do is to remove it by database.

The best way to delete unlike links is to write easy module. At the beginning please create configurative file which will be the part of our module ((app/code/local/Global4net/Customerlinks/config.xml) and rewrite the following code :

As to translate particular phrases, these must be saved in files which contains a form of proper string:

According to the above, it is worth remembering that having SSH access after the work is done, we are able to reset files rights just as to protect them before possible danger. Please never leave 777 access for diles or catalogues on the output store version. As to delete rights from the server console, please do the following activities :

1. How to create Google sitemap in Magento by myself ?

Sitemap for most people is understandable and all of us have heard of it, nevertheless, it is worth to speak in few words about its meaning. Well, sitemap is nothing else than one of the easiest sitemap diretectors as well as aims to create special points which will make the user follow them and in the effect of this action filter unnecessary information as to get to the desired source. Basic sitemap function are few XML files, introducing URL links list which contains all information as like last update and its frequency. Considering that, browsers become intelligent devices which easily function at any Internet websites. It is not rare to hear Google Sitemap term but the scheme for XML map protocole is not combined only with Google. Hence, it may be used with different places, but it comes of Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Any default way of displaying Magento errors may be frustrating for every person who does not cope much with the system. First, what to do with the number which displays after the system error has appeared?

In case of stores which have large category structure, their manual setting may be too difficult. As to make the process faster, it is worth to realize such a process in database.

Functional model of the project contains the beginning and the basic step of any further activities.  Many e-commerce companies has faced with the fact, that Clients do not require such a project, tough. Most of the Clients claim that creating the model provides additional and unnecessary costs which may be discarded from the pricelist.  Below You can see an example of functional model which Global4Net company has prepared for one of Our Customers.

It's been almost a year since Mangento published last 1.7.02 version of its system. Considering the fact that lately any improvements were applied almost every month, we claim that this is the highest time for Magento to introduce version number 1 as the publication of version 2 still is not followed by any date. The last version brought e-commerce platforms functionalities widening especially for business running its sell in the area of European Union ( tax validation, automatic sign to the groups and the possibility of selling with 0% tax level for the Clients who contains abroad registered objects)

In accordance with new UE's regulations, an online stores are obligated to inform their Clients about using Cookie files. As always, Magento architects are prepared for such an events in advance.

One of the most significant Magento advantages in comparison with e-commerce authorized platforms is an access to the numberless amount of different extensions which enable for quick store functionalities widening as for example lost baskets reminder or customer loyalty program implementation. Unfortunately, in many cases installing many adds contains a problem. In accordance with the above, I have created easy summary of an official Magento website add installation- magentocommerce.

The model is the first and fundamental step for creating an online store. Many people, however, completely ignore this fact in their implementations and generate unnecessary additional costs in subsequent project phases by introducing additional changes. Below is an example of a model that we prepare at Global4Net for our clients.

One of the key advantages of Magento in contrast to e-commerce platforms written by individual companies is the ability to access a myriad of add-ons that allow you to swiftly expand the functionality of your store, even the functionality of automatically reminding customers about abandoned shopping carts or implementing a loyalty program in your store. Unfortunately, installing add-ons still is a problem for many administrators. I developed a simple summary of how to install the supplement from the official Magento website - magentocommerce.

Below You can look into the list of the most significant features of the Magento system:

- Captcha - it's Zend Captcha integrated in version of Magento on most customer related fomrs - register, login, forgot password, but what interesting it's not included in contact form.

According to recent eMarketer's forecasts, an online retail sales in the U.S. will grow by an average of 14% per year over the next four years, reaching a value of over 424.2 billion dollars in 2017. The largest increase will record clothing industry and electronics - respectively 17% and 15.3%.

Higher temperatures and Christmas break helped the UK's e-retailers to expand sales by as much as 16% more than last year- so, according to a report made by Capgemini and association Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) and despite initial predictions IMRG of comes to the growth of 12%, the average annual growth rate in the UK can be as high as 15%. 

The global market for e-commerce continues to grow which isn’t  rather big surprise. If you wondered who leads the market in terms of volume per person, You may be interested with this article.