Top Magento Extensions

Hundreds of web agencies, development teams and web design freelancers have dedicated their time on creating Magento Extensions.

Even when there are plenty Magento Extensions available it takes a lot of time to find them. Perhaps that’s because most Magento sites are new and don’t rank well in search engines. To save your time we’ve created a list of the Top Magento Extentions.

Of course we’ll start with the Magento Connect as it offers the largest selection of Magento Extentions. However, it’s not really easy to find the extension you need even if it’s listed there. I suppose it happens due to a poor search feature.

If you need more Magento Extentions you should search the sites listed below.

AheadWorks.com provides a hure range of Magento extentions and Magento add-ons including Advanced Reports, Help Desk Ultimate, AJAX Cart Pro, Follow Up email, etc
WebShopExtensions.com Magento – SugarCRM Extension, Magento Extension – Ajax Add to Cart, Magento Extension – Shop Access Lock
Velite.de Magento Superstage, Magento Productslider, Magento Teaserbox.
Luxe-Soft.com a huge collection of Magento extensions
Activecodeline.com Magento Bestseller module
Technology.pillwax.com DownloadPlus for Magento, EmailNotify for Magento, EuVat for Magento.
Temgra.com Color Custom Options, Color Thumbnails, Slider, Carousel, Color Attributes, Color Views Plus, Color Swatches Plus, Product Image Zoom, etc.
Collinssolutions.com Magento eBay Checkout, Magento Make An Offer
IcebergCommerce.com Optimal Payments Firepay Magento Payment Gateway Extension, Magento Auto Add to Cart Extension – Easy Bundles
Pa-scripts.com Magento ClickBank Gateway, Magento Simple Checkout, Magento Live Cash Back Integration, Magento Order Summary, Magento Digital Checkout
Shop.Deeson.co.uk PayPoint.net Magento payment modules
MagentoModules.paytype.com Slider/Carousel showing New Products, Live Search for Magento (autocompletion), Sale&New Stickers for product images, Bestselling/Mostviewed Products Block, Countdown for products on sale
MageStore.com Advanced zoom images, Custom Invoice Number, Custom Invoice Number, Shop by Manufacturer
WebShop-Conversion.com Magento Weather Extension
Store.FooMan.co.nz Magento Extension Order Manager, Magento Extension PDF Customiser, Magento Extension Speedster, Magento Extension Surcharge, Magento Extension GoogleAnalyticsPlus, Magento Extension Invoice=Order Number

Hopefully you’ll find this list useful. Also, we need your help to complete it.
What are the Magento Extensions that you can’t do without?

August 27, 2009 | Filed Under Magento modules, magento extensions

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Follow up on the Magento Guide Roundup

The official Magento blog has recently published the Magento Book Roundup.
It has highlighted 6 Magento guides in total:

The Official Magento User Guide by the Varien Team
The Definitive Magento Guide by Adam McCombs
Magento: Beginner’s Guide by William Rice
Magento 1.3 Theme Design by Richard Carter
Online-Shops mit Magento by Roman Zenner or “Online Shops with Magento”
Magento – Das Handbuch für Entwickler by Claus Nortmann, Dimitri Gatowski, Daniel Brylla, Sebastian Heuer or “Magento – The Developer’s Handbook”

As you may suggest the post on useful Magento guides received many comments. However, most comments were promoting Grow with Magento. It’s another Magento book that wasn’t mentioned in the official roundup.

As we’ve found our Grow with Magento is the unofficial Magento users’ guide that is being updated quite often. According to comments it is very helpful for Magento users as well as Magento developers.

It’s not that we want to promote Grow with Magento. It’s that we want to understand if this book is really so useful or was it just a wise marketing promotion by those who have written it?

We don’t want to offend anyone, we just want to show the right way to the Magento community.

So, what is your opinion about the Magento guides? Is the Magento Book Roundup complete or it lacks any comprehensive guide?

August 20, 2009 | Filed Under Magento news

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Magento Themes that incorporate women photos

Female beauty has always been the subject of admiration and inspiration. That’s why many web designers incorporate women photos into their art works.

Web design trends come and go but female beauty never loses its power and magnetism.

As we always keep you up to date with the latest Magento Themes I suggest you to see
10 Magento Themes that incorporate women photos.

Note all Magento Themes are created by different web designers. Moreover, these designers work for different companies. Still, they all use women photos to make their designs more graceful and attractive.

Magento Theme by Ecommerce-Themes.com

August 18, 2009 | Filed Under magento templates, magento themes

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Important Tips about Magento Updates

As you may see from our posts Magento eCommerce software is being updated quite often.
Recently the Magento Team decided to improve the release process. Therefore, any upcoming release of Magento will be marked with a special suffix.

The suffix will define the Stability Status of the new Magento release. In other words Magento users, testers and developers will know what to expect from the latest update.

For instance a few days ago the Magento Preview Version 1.4.0.0-alpha1has been released. However, it’s not recommended to be used in a production environment. It is available for testing purposes only. How do we know this? Well, that’s what the suffix at the end of the release name means.

To make a long story short all upcoming Magento releases will be named according to the next scheme: X.Y.Z.P-Stability Status#. Where X is the major version number, Y is a minor version number, Z is a revision version number and P is a patch version number. As for the Stability Status# it can be Alpha, Beta or Release Candidate. If no Stability Status# is specified, it means the release is production ready and stable.

Please visit the official Magento blog to learn more about the New Community Edition Release Process.

August 13, 2009 | Filed Under Magento news

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Top Magento-powered sites

We often review beautifully designed Magento Themes. However, it’s been too long since we’ve reviewed truly inspiring Magento stores.

So here we go with a list of 17 sites powered by Magento. No doubt we’ve chosen the most impressive designs.

It’s nice to see that a good number of Magento-driven sites look so gorgeous and original. It means many online retailers who use Magento take care of their customers.

Hopefully other Magento users will be inspired by these creative Magento sites! And now it’s time for the designs to speak for themselves

1miniface.com

August 11, 2009 | Filed Under Magento stores

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Help the Magento Community Edition grow

Not long ago the Magento Team has released the Magento Enterprise Edition. It’s a bit different from the free version of Magento that is so popular with online retailers.

The key difference in that the Magento Enterprise Edition comes with many additional features and services that are not available in the open source version. Also, the Community Edition of Magento is available at no cost while the Enterprise Edition costs for about $8,900/year.

Basically the Magento Enterprise Edition is created for large companies. If you run a small online store and can not afford the paid version of Magento you can join the Magento forum or the Magento Connect, and more than likely you’ll find any theme or extension you need there.

Please visit the Magento site to learn what exactly differs the Enterprise Edition of Magento from the Community Edition.

The good thing is that both Magento editions are based on the same Magento Core code, and the Magento Team continues to support the open source edition.

With this in mind the Magento Team invites you to discuss what essential features the Magento Community Edition still lacks. You can either add a new idea or vote for the ideas that are already submitted. The best ideas will be taken into consideration. In other words the most voted features will be added to the free version of Magento.

Be sure to help Magento to be the best open source ecommerce platform!

August 6, 2009 | Filed Under Magento news

The latest FREE Magento Themes

Be sure to check out the Free Magento Themes page. We’ve just updated it with the latest Magento Themes that are available free of charge.

After a long search we have found 4 Free Magento Themes that you can use to change the appearance of your Magento store.

If you’re not familiar with Magento ecommerce software, get familiar because it enables you to sell your products and services online. What is great about Magento is that it has a professional and user-friendly interface and a secure admin area. Thus, your customers can easily find the items they need and you can easily manage your shop.

Please find the list of the newest Free Magento Themes below. Keep in mind that the images are clickable.

Free Magento Theme by CogzidelTemplates.com

August 4, 2009 | Filed Under Free Magento Templates

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