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Thursday 23 June 2011

Convenience of Adding Media objects to Your products via Media Gallery Module


Brief Glimpse of Media Gallery module
Media gallery module by FME is a superb module for your magento shopping cart. With this module you can bring whole new look to your store. Specially designed to enhance your media appearance of your products You can easily assign multiple videos to your products and these videos are visible via product slider. With this module you have number of ways to manage your media. However in this particular blog my points of attention is how to add media files to your products which is described below;
Adding videos to your product with Media Gallery Module:
In order to Add videos to your products you will find “Add Media” TAB under which you will find menu of “Media information” and the following items
Title : Allows you to add title for your video
Choose video type : Here you are presented with two options either you can upload media files from your computer hard drive or you can add the URL from video sites like Youtube or Vimeo
Video file : After choosing the video type you can choose the video format like MPEG, FLV, MP4 etc
Feature video : Options that allows you to feature your video, you can set it with Yes or NO
Enable for right block : Can set it with Yes or No option
Store view : You have number of option here. You can either set it default or main store , main website view and All stores
Status: Either you can Enable it or Disable it
Content : Here you can add the intended content for your video

Friday 17 June 2011

Shop by brands & the Features of CMS


A short glimpse of Shop by Brands Module:
Shop by brands extension is a wonderful extension specially designed to manage your manufacturers in a more effective and efficient way. With this module for magento you can list your manufacturers on the listing pages as well as on the product pages as well. You have the option to setup shop by brands, shop by categories, shop by authors, etc instead of shop by manufacturers. You can add up contact details , description of manufacturers and their products. In short this module provides you variety of ways to manage your manufacturers. In this particular blog my focus is on the CMS aspect of shop by brands. But first let have a view of CMS.














An overview of CMS
CMS stands for content management system or in terms of Web , Web content management system. Whose sole purpose is to simplify the publishings of web content without having special knowledge of programming or markup languages. Following are the objectives of CMS
Purpose of CMS
  • To allow maximum number of people to add and store data
  • Controlling user access to data in terms of which information users can vicw, edit or publish
  • Ease in storage and retrieving data
  • Reduction in duplicate insertion of data
  • Ease in report writing
  • Improved communication between users
Components of CMS
  • To maintain Security
  • To manage Objects
  • To manage Server
  • To manage Auditing
  • To Manage Report


Compatibility with Shop by Brands module:
shop by brands module fully supports the CMS functionality in its features. You will find the CMS option under configuration in the General Tab as the last menu.



Friday 10 June 2011

Featuring secure payment gateways in one step checkout

Brief description about FME one step checkout
FME one step checkout is a super extension specially build to enhance your sales conversion rate. The core aim of this extension is to provide more convenience to your customers while they are checking out. Unlike default magento where a user have to follow six long laborious steps, it facilitates your customers with just a single step to move through the checkout process. There are many features of one step check out, however in this particular blog my emphasis is on support of Google checkout in FME one step check out.

Short glance at Google checkout
Google checkout is a payment gateway that helps you connect to secure processing networks with multiple functionalities. Features of google check out include that its fast as it presents its user with ease, readiness and quickness to buy from a single login. It helps you to improve your sales conversion rate by bringing along more customers to your stores. The process is so simple that even the users who have not used it before can easily use it. Protection from fraud and prevention from commercial spam is very effective.

Multiple Gateway support
FME one page checkout fully supports the functionality of Google check. Thus gaining more confidence from your customers. The very exciting aspect of this extension is its support for multiple payment gateways i.e. apart from google checkout it also supports Authorize.net, pay pal and Sage Pay. 











Thursday 9 June 2011

Enhance your media appearances via Media Gallery Extension


Variety in setting appearances for videos:
This extension provides variety of ways in which you can enhance your media appearances of your products. Media gallery and Product videos extension allows you to create videos for your product gallery in a very convenient way via utilizing admin panel. Also with this extension you can easily add multiple videos to your products. Courtesy to this extension it enables you to have video files of various formats like FLV, Youtube, Vimeo and images format of JPG, PNG, GIF and SWF. Not only that it provides you with a facility of auto generation of thumb nails of video sites like Youtube & Vimeo
Managing videos for products:
this extension provides you with a very convenient way of managing videos for your products. Also you can easily manage the display of the latest video on home page of your store or any other page of your choice.

Media gallery extension and product videos also features video slider where you provide option for your customers to view multiple videos. This extension is compatible is with multiple magento stores. Also the features of the extension include a facility where videos open up on the page in an overlay. And last but certainly not the least customization of the display is very easy.





Monday 6 June 2011

FME one step Checkout Featuring support For Multiple Payment Gateways


Brief Description about FME one step Checkout:
FME one step checkout allows your customers with ease and readiness to quickly process their on line transactions. Relieving the customers with the laborious six long steps of default magento. With FME one step checkout you are done with your purchase with just a single step.
Compatibility and support with multiple payment Gateways
  • FME one step check out has full functional support for Sage Pay, as we know its importance that Sage pay provides secure on line payment processing for businesses of all sizes. Accept card payments on line, over the phone or via mail order etc
  • Allowing the customers with multiple transaction options FME one step checkout supports PayPal which we know is an e-commerce business that allows ease in on line payments and money transfers.. it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.
  • Also featuring full support for Google Checkout and we know that Google checkout takes merchants and buyers in full confidence as purchase history of buyers is not shared with sellers, also helps you out to control commercial spam where you emails are secured from getting unwanted mails.
  • Also included in this extension is the facility of Authorize.net as we know that it provides online merchants with an option to accept credit card payments and E-check.
  • This extension is basically compatible with all such payment gateways that are supported in the default magento




Friday 3 June 2011

Effective and Efficient Management of Manufacturers in Shop By Brands Extension


A short glimpse of Shop by manufacturer:

Shop by Brands is a superb extension allowing your customers to shop by the choice of their manufacturers. Providing an ease of manufacturer management from the administration panel. This extension provides readiness to customers while linking different products to manufacturer from the product pages. However you can effectively customize this extension instead of shop by manufacturer you can set it to shop by artist, shop by author, shop by labels, etc etc.

Effectively managing Manufacturers in Shop By Brands
  • This extension provides an ease of loading existing manufacturers from magento attribute
  • Featuring efficient data management of manufacturers including manufacturers details, the contact details and the product of manufacturers
  • Enables the feature of custom setting per store view
  • Enabling the customer to create different lists of brands for each view of the store and the website
  • Enabling the customer with an option to list all manufacturers on the front end in an innovative and creative way
  • Feature that allows the customers to insert manufacturers block/ manufacturers logo on a product page
  • Features an effective optimization for the bran pages
  • Featuring and efficient listing of manufacturers on front end
  • Providing the facility of cent percent SEO friendly url's 
  • Also featuring separated HTML/CSS and W3C validation.






Wednesday 1 June 2011

Front End Dimension of FME one step Checkout

 Brief overview of the Extension:

FME one step checkout is an exciting extension of Magento that facilitates the customers with a speedy checkout. Instead of following the six long laborious steps of the default magento, One step checkout enables the customers to move through the transaction with just single step.

There are many exciting aspects of FME one step checkout. However in this particular blog I am emphasizing on front end features of FME one step check out which are as followed;

Key characteristics of one step checkout in terms of outlook:

  • FME one page checkout possess an attractive front end design which is completely customer friendly
  • Featuring Ajax based login support, Ajax based forget password request support and Ajax based continuous updation facility
  • Also included in the features list is the option of Separate HTML/CSS, W3C validation
  • Featuring 100% SEO Friendly URL's
  • providing the option of Magento Friendly Prototype which effectively handles each action
  • Featuring the option of Fancy loader with associate messages of updating step
  • Facilitating the user with the option of Fancy popups for agreements
  • Also last but not the least enabling the customer with an option to update the gift message file accordingly to one step checkout page.