Blogs of ecommerce

Magento is a very good ecommerce solution at the same time as they call it ‘an over engineered’ system which is not very light. But can we rule it out from the list of ecommerce softwares we would consider? Definitely not. Reasons are anything from Magento being open source to the community help and plugins’ availability. We help many of our clients with site speed optimization and performance boosting of their webshops. Here we will share some techniques we generally use. Most of these suggestions you can see from Google pagespeed insights. 1. Image Optimization Make sure all the images used in the site, including banners and product images are saved for web. If...

It’s difficult for a beginner to go into Magento developer docs and understand the whole concept of layout handling with xml files. The layout files are .xml files located in the layouts folder of the theme/component. The layout file defines the position, template file, arguments, html attributes, etc. for each block. A template file (with .phtml extension) is the HTML part that is loaded by how the XML is configured. Magento has this feature to turn on template path hints which is an absolute lifesaver for beginners who try to figure out which template is used for a particular section. It also gives the block class name used. Below is an image of Magento showing the path hints.