Book Review – Magento Beginners Guide

May 12, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Magento · 2 Comments 

First impressions

Upon receiving my copy of the Magento Beginners Guide I took a moment after dinner whilst my girlfriend watched some ‘Celebrity Increase My Profile’ program to absorb the first chapter.  I was presented with a nice introduction explaining the scope of the book and the conventions that are used throughout.  A nice and easy ‘in’ perfectly suited to reading on the couch. Read more

Problems accessing admin after upgrading to Magento 1.3.0

April 16, 2009 · Posted in Configuration, Installation, Magento · 3 Comments 

Having received an email from the Magento Team the other week bigging-up the latest release of Magento and encouraging me to upgrade as soon as I could, I dutifully upgraded the Mage_Core_Modules to 1.3.0.  This appeared to go without a hitch and after I made a couple of adjustments in the admin and tested Read more

Lots and lots of photos

March 9, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Magento · Comment 

Photography is something that fascinates me and intrigues me. So when I decided to organise the product photography for Bytemart Limited I had not really grasped the concept of how much effort it was going to take.

First of all I put together a ‘lightbox’ to use as the environment to take the photos, this required some mounting board and a roll of white paper and Read more

Setup local installation of Magento 1.0.19870 WampServer

May 16, 2008 · Posted in Configuration, Installation, Magento · 2 Comments 

Prerequisites:-
WampServer2 installation http://andij.com/2008/05/15/installing-and-configuring-wampserver2/

Now to install Magento http://www.magentocommerce.com/ Including the Sample Data pack.

Note: Ensure to install the Sample Data pack before performing the installation of Magento itself.

Download both the ‘Sample Data’ pack and ‘Magento’, save these somewhere, decide Read more

Installing and Configuring WampServer2

May 15, 2008 · Posted in Configuration, Installation, Magento · 5 Comments 

Step One

The Installation process of WampServer2 was painless. http://www.wampserver.com/en/

The harder part was getting it configured the way I wanted to use it. Now I’ve sussed it, it’s a beauty. Read more