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Shipping Rates to the UK Islands

Posted on: 15th Aug 2011 By: Adam Moss No Comments
Shipping Rates to the UK Islands

It’s fair to understand that shipping goods offshore is a more costly exercise than transporting them across the UK’s mainland. The goods need to be taken by land or air to the nearest mainland port, where they’re then loaded onto a ship which will then slowly make its way across to the island’s port. Now [...]

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Partial Refunds in Magento

Posted on: 5th Aug 2011 By: Adam Moss 10 Comments
Partial Refunds in Magento

A few words which normally incite a ballache: refunds in Magento. In recent Magento versions the process of creating credit memos for an order has become an easier and less-buggy process, but at the same time it can still be a bit concerning if you’re not sure what you’re doing. In true Magento Blog fashion, [...]

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Informing Users of Secure Checkout

Posted on: 27th Jul 2011 By: Adam Moss 1 Comment
Informing Users of Secure Checkout

It’s something that I have endeavoured to include on my sites for a long time, but it’s also something that can perhaps be overlooked as it’s not 100% necessary. I’m talking about informing your users that your e-commerce website’s checkout is secure. They can find this out anyway when they reach the payment stage of [...]

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Magento captcha with recaptcha

Posted on: 28th Apr 2011 By: Ben McManus No Comments
Magento captcha with recaptcha

The recaptcha plugin provided by Google is currently used about 30 million times a day to prevent form auto/robot submission, which isn’t bad going. In this post I will show you how to make your e-commerce store give Google few more thousand captcha challenges a day! To generate recaptcha into your form were going to [...]

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Install Magento and setup MySQL via SSH

Posted on: 8th Apr 2011 By: Ben McManus 2 Comments
Install Magento and setup MySQL via SSH

It’s a lovely day here at E-commerce web design HQ, To spread the love here are a few shell commands to speed up your Magento installation and to set up your database. To login to your server open up terminal on Mac/Unix (PuTTy/SSH Client/Cygwin if your a PC) and use the following command. Type in [...]

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