It’s been a busy time for Rocket Web and we’ve been involved with several different Magento development projects. One big recent launch has been a new Magento Enterprise site for Best Price Nutrition. Also we’ve got a couple new jewelry sites up for the Moriarty’s, one sells Tanzanite Jewelry and another is for their store [...]
Continue readinginstalling extensions 404 error in Magento admin
If you have installed a Magento extension and see a 404 error when trying to access it, this is a very common bug in Magento. The easiest way to solve this that works most of the time is to just log out of the admin and log back in. Now when you try to access [...]
Continue readingRocket Web Office in Wroclaw Poland
Today we’ve opened up our new office in Wrocław (pronounced Frots-waf), Poland. Wojtek (pronounced Voy-tek) has been working with Rocket Web for years and has recently joined us full time and is managing the new office in Wrocław. Grzegorz (pronounced Greh-gosh) and Jan (pronounced Yan) have joined us full time as well and will be [...]
Continue readingWhat is x.commerce?
One -stop Shop for all things commerce Integration Framework to help developers build and merchants easily adopt new capabilities. Community-driven open ontology, developers and merchants create within the x.commerce framework Now where developers spend 80% of their time implementing and 20% innovating, x.commerce seeks to flip this so that developers can spend 80% of their [...]
Continue readingImproving Magento Search – Part 2
We recently posted details about some changes to code that could make an improvement in your magento search engine. We’re looking at making an extension to implement some of these changes. We could really use your feedback. What are your main problems with Magento search on your website? Can you give us a couple search [...]
Continue readingYouTube Product Video for Magento
We just published our first extension that is installable via Magento Connect. Check it out along with the ability to install Youtube Product Video manually. This extension provides a clean user interface and is simple for store owners to work with. The only thing they really need is the youtube id. A video title helps [...]
Continue readingMagento Hosting
We host many of our clients Magento websites. We host these sites at cost to avoid complaints about hosting companies. It can be difficult to manage and develop a website when the website is hosted with a poor or under powered hosting company. I may know the problem isn’t with the code but with the [...]
Continue readingMagento Checkout Usability
We’ve been working on usability enhancements to the base Magento checkout. Here’s the latest from our team. When a specific format for data is expected, give an example. In this case greyed out and invisible when clicked on. Use country selection to populate list of states. Use zip / postal code to populate City and [...]
Continue readingImproving Magento Search
Magento bundles all product information into a single index for it’s search. This gives every part of the product roughly the same weight. Analyzing customer searches we’ve found that customers often search for a product name or words in a product name. These are our most valuable searches where a customer is looking for something [...]
Continue readingStaying Secure
In 2010 we discovered and had 3 hacker sites removed and uncovered 30,000 customer records from hundreds of merchants. We were able to contact those merchants and provide customer info for PCI compliance. Hack attempts have been steadily increasing in the past few years. If you’re trying to run an e-commerce business yourself try to [...]
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