Magento Static Blocks – The Definitive Guide

There’s more than one way to skin a hippo and adding CMS static blocks in Magento is no exception.
In case you’re unfamiliar with CMS static blocks, they are powerful little buggers in Magento’s admin that allows the site’s administrator to add and control chunks of HTML that can be displayed throughout the site. They’re perfect for seasonal banners, sale blocks, return policies, size charts and anything that would make sense to modularize to make maintaining your site easier.
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Magento Beginner’s Guide Review: Part 1

Magento Ecommerce is a powerful, flexible open-source system that can produce great results right out of the box.  At Pod1, we work exclusively with Magento to deliver custom ecommerce websites for high end fashion brands and more.  Because I’ve seen an incredible amount of client success with Magento I’m quick to recommend it as an extremely capable  e-commerce solution.
While Magento is a great tool, its learning curve is steep (relative to other platforms) and reliable, thorough documentation is often hard [...]

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Magento Enterprise Edition: How to Stifle a Growing Community

Yesterday Varien announced Magento Enterprise Edition, which is a commercially-licensed e-commerce platform built on their free open source version.  From Varien’s standpoint, I can understand their need to monetize their product, however I feel this is a big disappointment to the growing Magento development community.  With over to 750,000 downloads in less than a year, Magento’s growth has been quick and has gained a ton of momentum from developers and critics.  What better way to totally reverse that momentum by [...]

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