Monthly Archives: June 2012

Ultimento Reaches 200 Customer Reviews on Magento’s Offical Website

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Ultimento on Magento ConnectCommative’s flag-ship product and the leading Magento theme on the market reached a new milestone: 200 positive reviews on Magento Connect! This now makes Ultimento by far the most reviewed Magento theme or template on Magento Connect.

Having this many customer reviews and many more happy customers is a testament to Commative’s superior themes and extensions as well as best in class customer support. You can read all of the reviews here. We are extremely proud of this achievement and look forward to the next milestone. Thanks to all of our customers who have helped us perfect the product and make it a such a great option for so many e-commerce stores.

The Commative Team

Need Some Magento Help?

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Magento is great. It’s flexible, easy to get up and running, cost-effective, has thousands of extensions, allows for near-endless customization, and sometimes can be an absolute pain. For all Magento’s strengths, it does have some weaknesses and sometimes you need some help to figure out how to get things done.

At Commative we know how you feel. We’ve put together one of the largest Magento Support resources on the Internet and are constantly adding new questions and answers to help you out.

Trying to learn more about Magento? Need help picking a Magento optimized hosting provider? Looking for a guide on Magento basics? We’ve got you covered. Even more general questions like what are rich snippets are there.

Get the answers you need and remember to keep checking back, there’s always something new!

The Commative Team

Magento 1.7.0.1 Released

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It’s been a few months since Magento released the 1.7 update to its Community platform so now seems like the perfect time for a little patch work. It’s good to see that Magento is staying on top of bugs and tweaks to the platform and thankfully it looks like there wasn’t that much they had to cover.

The Release Notes for Magento 1.7.0.1 include…

  • Modified backend configuration UI for PayPal
  • Moved PayPal configuration to the Payments Method menu
  • Fixed SOAP v2 API WS-I compatibility issue
  • Addressed order comment history tab problem with information not saving
  • Closed a number of potential security holes
  • Improved functionality around field sets and field configuration

So there isn’t anything you need to run out and get coverage for, but review the changes and upgrade if there’s anything you need.

The Commative Team

Magento Learning is Good For You

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Magento just announced their Summer schedule for 2012 and you should definitely check it out! There is no better way to expand your Magento skill set than to learn from the guys, and gals, who built the platform. Three course types are being offered including:

Fundamentals of Magento Development – These five day classroom courses will give you all the basics to coding on Magento. Classes will be held in Los Angeles, Paris, Munich, and Sydney.

Core Principles of Theming – This collection of short online sessions will help guide you to customizing the look and feel of your site.

eCommerce with Magento – If you aren’t a programmer you can still learn all about how Magento can help you maximize your eCommerce presence with these online classes.

Never stop learning!

The Commative Team

New Live Ultimento Magento Themes

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Ultimento 3 has now been released for almost six weeks and we have already dozens of customers on the new platform with live Magento stores. We have seen a lot of our customers do their own customization to this unique Magento template, and we have show-cased six live stores below to illustrate some of the possibilities. There have been changes across the board including:

- Configuring the java script slider to add and/or enlarge pictures

- Color changes to the navigation bar, fonts, and backgrounds

- Added CMS blocks to include more text and information or promotional banners

We are very pleased to see our customers make the most out of Ultimento and take advantage of the ease of customization. If you have any live Ultimento sites you want to us to share with the Ultimento network please don’t hesitate to email us at sales@commative.com

Google Product Listings, Free No More

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According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Google has announced it plans to end the practice of free product listings on its shopping site, formally known as Froogle. There was no solid ETA for the change, but insiders speculate the change will come before the 2012 holiday season.

Many people are seeing Google’s actions as a cash grab. While there’s no doubt Google will make more money with this model, there is also a strong possibility the move is motivated by a desire to improve the quality of product listings for consumers and merchants alike.

Under the free product submission system, Google’s results have been “messy” as a plethora of companies flooded Google with unorganized product data. As much as Google dominates search, it trails significantly behind eBay and Amazon when it comes to online product research. Once Google begins charging for listings the hope is that merchants will focus on providing better product data and Google will be able to offer improved results that are more appealing to users.

If you haven’t taken a look at Google’s product search, check it out. You’re going to want to make sure your products show up.

The Commative Team