Extendware Blog

1/25/15

I would guess that 30% of stores leave the default Magento favicon. Changing this is quite important as many stores are using the default icon which means your store has nothing to …

1/24/15

It is common when improving your Magento store that you will install new Magento extensions and sometimes you will need to troubleshoot an issue. The best way to do this is to …

1/24/15

Sometimes Magento will display a "Service Temporarily Unavailable" message. The message will look like the following: The most common cause of this issue is a file located at [Magento root]/maintenance.flag. If this …

1/23/15

Adding Magento meta title / description to your store should be one of the first things you do after installing Magento. To do this is very simple: Meta information is important because …

1/22/15

Normally your store will display a logo so that your business can be identified. Sometimes it is necessarily to change this especially if you are just creating your first store. To do …

1/21/15

You might have noticed when browsing our Magento extensions that we display the list of new products on our home page. In order to do this we are our using our Magento …

1/17/15

Magento includes a database abstraction layer and object relationship manager that is really great at ensuring data integrity and consistent data access. In general, you should avoid writing to the database and …

1/16/15

When we say form validation we specifically mean client-side Javascript form validation. Have you ever filled out a Magento from and been told that a specific field is incomplete or includes bad …

1/15/15

The problematic Magento Front controller reached 100 router match iterations exception is not a common issue, but it is certainly a big issue to the usability of a store and can be …

5/31/14

Defer loading of javascript can significantly decrease the page load of your Magento store. Magento uses a lot of javascript and the browser will wait for this javascript to completely download before …

5/15/14

Our Magento Ajax Cart Extension has had a lot of features and fixes recently. Here is a run down: Up-selling ability Now the Magento Ajax Cart extension has the ability to list …

3/10/14

Extendware's Affiliate Program for Magento has been released! Do you want to take your sales to a new level? Then you need to start an affiliate program. No matter how many sales …