10 things to know when install magento ecommerce

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10 THINGS TO KNOW WHEN INSTALL MAGENTO ECOMMERCE. Magento has apparent a constant acceleration in acceptance and back getting accurate by eBay it’s begin a accomplished new audience, this has added been accurate by its hosted Magento GO offering. We have done a few Magento developments actuality at Branded and during these builds we have particular a few things to ensure you consistently do (or don't) with a Magento ecommerce solution.

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10 THINGS TO KNOW WHEN

INSTALL MAGENTO

ECOMMERCE.Magento has apparent a constant

acceleration in acceptance and back getting accurate by eBay it’s begin a accomplished new audience, this has

added been accurate by its hosted Magento GO offering.

We have done a few Magento developments actuality at Branded

and during these builds we have particular a few things to ensure you

consistently do (or don't) with a Magento ecommerce solution.

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FEW THINGS TO ENSURE YOU CONSISTENTLY DO

1. Ensure you accept the latest version

It may assume obvious, but if you aboriginal alpha developing the belvedere you may acquisition there is a new release, application or accessory amend as with abounding accessible antecedent platforms these tend to be capital aegis fixes rather than anatomic releases accordingly its consistently best to accumulate up to date. Even if it agency a abounding advancement and analysis accepted

above-mentioned to go-live.

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2. Make abiding you accept the absence CRON schedules

Magento has some abundant appearance for archive based pricing, promotions and active systems such as 'Back in stock' about in adjustment to get these appearance alive you charge to accept the absence Magento cron agenda running, consistently account blockage aboriginal that the agenda ran if you aren't accepting the alerts as expected!

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3. Analysis affinity of plug-in

There are so abounding abundant extensions and plug-in accessible for Magento, even added so with the Magento Connect arrangement authoritative it easier to install these. About one affair to consistently analysis is that the plug-in you are installing has been activated not alone with the adaptation of Magento you are application but as well buck in apperception there may be conflicts with added plug-in acclimated in the aforementioned area. For archetype if you are application transaction aperture plug-in forth with checkout optimizing plug-in again these are key to analysis for compatibility.

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4. Analysis the checkout pages and abode as abounding orders as you can!

Another about too-obvious point but abode as abounding analysis orders as you can in altered browsers and with altered archive articles and quantities. We afresh apparent a actual odd bug amid two of Magentos a lot of accepted and accurate plug-in that meant humans application old versions of IE or in affinity approach couldn't analysis out! One to attending out for.

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5. Attenuate bare features

Magento is such a abundant belvedere and offers so abounding appearance that sometimes these can affect the acceleration and achievement of the site. Accordingly if you aren't application or don't plan to use a accurate affection again it's best to attenuate the achievement of these modules to abate overheads. Two in accurate which we accept apparent acutely advance the acceleration of checkout is to attenuate the RSS and Virtual artifact modules.

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6. Enabled caching

Any one that's acclimated Magento knows that with all its appearance it comes at a amount and that is it's ability heavy. To adverse act some of this action it's best to attending for options to acceleration up the website and action scalable solutions, One of these which Magento works accurately with is caching. Magento supports both APC Cache and Mem cache which can acceleration your website up by up to 95%.

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7. Ensure Google page acceleration recommendations are in place

Another acceleration based tip is to use the Google Page Acceleration plug-in which is accessible for a lot of browsers. It recommends a amount of best practice items that can advice with page amount speeds as able-bodied as abbreviation ability requirements on the server. HTML compression modules such as GZIP and Deflate are ideal for abbreviation the page size.

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8. Absence email styling

Magento has about 20 absence arrangement templates and it's sometimes simple to overlook these with the focus on the foreground end and user journey. All these templates accept a amount of modules and included sections that charge personalizing to your accurate store, a key affair is usually the logo and abundance name. I'm abiding your barter don't wish to accept emails from Absence Store!

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9. Attenuate absence logging (Only if you are assured that the website is acceptable to go!)

Magento appearance a abundant developer abutment apparatus for logging, should errors action on the website or you are searching for accepted action again the logs are a huge help. They do about add an aerial to the page endless so already you are blessed with the belvedere and entering a assembly ambiance its recommended to about-face this affection off.

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10. Ok this is added of a don't but do not adapt the amount code!

One of the fundamentals of application accessible antecedent articles and a belvedere like Magento is to not adapt the amount code! Too generally the affluence of tweaking some amount cipher to accredit the functionality to plan how you wish it calls us, but added generally than not this will bolt you out in the approaching if you appear to advancement or revisit the development and overlook the change is there. Where accessible you should consistently advance your own bore or addendum to the functionality to ensure things plan as you crave and accredit you to advancement in the future. Remember you can override models with affluence in your bounded binder and address a bore to add new ambassador routes!

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