Magento design in black

One more design theme is ready thanks to open source customization department of the Oxagile company. This Magento layout will be appreciated by those who believe that “Site font can be of any color if it’s black”.

These screenshots represent one of the variants of the design that we have created for one of our clients – the e-commerce store selling audio equipment. The project included not only design but Magento set-up, design implementation, some admin customization and a set of SEO (search engine optimization) services.

So, if you like this work and want to get you eCommerce store installed by our professional open source customization team – just leave us a short message today!

Magento catalog customization: admin area

Project objective

To customize Magento catalog to have additional filters while browsing products

Description

Magento backoffice provides its owner with the broad range of administration tools. They allow getting all the necessary information on how the shop is running and what else should be done to promote it further. But sometimes there are some minor drawbacks in Magento admin that worsen the usability. In those cases the shop should be customized either by its owner or by the professionals.

Seems strange but the default Magento catalog doesn’t provide the possibility to filter the products by the brand (manufacturer) or by category they belong.

It looks something like that:

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Technologies involved

PHP, XML

Solution

The professionals from Oxagile company have created a new design of the catalog page that includes all the filtering options the customer needed. It seems more user friendly now and should be included in the Magento update sometime

Look at the new version just to compare them:

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Magento setting up for Vitamins store

Magento becomes more and more popular among the software solutions for e-commerce business. Our last customer decided to use it for the shop selling vitamins and other stuff that is really helpful in improving our shape (either gaining weight and muscles or loosing weight).

The task of Oxagile team was to apply the design for Magento (done by some other company) and to add some small improvement features to the functionality. Most of the features were rather standard and helped to make the shop a bit more user friendly. For example, Oxagile PHP developer has added a manufacturer filtering combo box to the left navigation menu. As the site sells the products of many different manufactures the common list of them in the left menu may be very long and will disfigure the design concept. With a combo box it’s much more convenient as the potential buyer can easily select the producer on any page and the system will show the products of this particular manufacture.

Some common Drupal E-commerce questions

After our Oxagile e-commerce department started to provide its services using Drupal and Ubercart we have received more than a hundred of different questions that were not about our services but about using Drupal for e-commerce in general. Here are some of the most common:
Q: My site is using the Drupal CMS, should I use only Drupal for e-commerce.
A: No, you are not limited to Drupal or Ubercart. But as you use Drupal for you site it can be easier to set up the additional module of the same CMS than to install additional system. Also it’s easier to manage the site and e-commerce shop using one admin panel.

Q: What is better to choose - Drupal or eCommerce modules for a Drupal-based website?
A: Both variants have advantages and disadvantages. Here are only some of them.

• Ubercart advantages: easier scalable, more convenient user interface
• eCommerce advantages: more open-ended, more additional options for contributed modules
• Ubercart disadvantages: some areas are difficult to customize, less modules available
• eCommerce disadvantages: user interface is not user-friendly and even confusing in some areas

It’s also based on the type of your site and your business goals, terms and budget. So, you can communicate with one of the Oxagile project managers to get the appropriate advice.

Q: When we have moved company’s Drupal site to a new hosting Ubercart started to work improperly. How to solve this problem? Should we set up the other eCommerce solution?
A: Unfortunately, this situation is rather common but it’s almost impossible to give standard advice that will work for every site and every type of hosting. One of the developers from our e-commerce team can investigate the problem and suggest you some variants of the solution.

Magento Modern Theme for Cosmetics Store

Cosmetics is among the products that are widely sold via Internet. Sometimes it even seems that eCommerce was developed directly for the cosmetics industry. Using Magento shopping software it’s so easy to present all that creams, shampoons, deodorants and soaps.

Look at the Magento Modern Theme for Cosmetics Store designed by Oxagile team. Looks cute, doesn’t it?

Magento design for computer shop

Design of e-commerce shop selling computers and computer peripherals has to be hi-tech. Potential buyers must feel the spirit of information technology from a first glance.

Here is the design that was chosen by one of our clients for the main page of the shop.

the e-commerce shop was developed using Mageto open source software solution. So, we also provided our client with the design for the inner pages. He has chosen rather simple and very elegant design for the page listing the products from one category and for the product page.

If you liked the job done than drop us a line or make a call. Oxagile software development company will start creating a unique design for YOUR MAGENTO STORE!

Joomla + virtue mart = comfortable eCommerce

VirtueMart is an Open Source eCommerce solution for the Joomla CMS. It was developed for the classic PHP / MySQL environment. As a eCommerce module VirtueMart brings (in addition to the standard Joomla features and functionality) everything that helps to create a successful online shop:

• Flexible attributes per product (color, size, etc.);
• Order management with order history, customer validation and editing;
• Powerful search;
• High-performance products that provide fast checkout support;
• different variants of Product display;
• Supporting for different currencies with real-time conversion.

Also VirtueMart already supports many different payment option: Authorize.net ®, PayPal, 2Checkout, eWay, Worldpay, PayMate and Nochex and has a numerous plugins for other payment gateways.

If you already use Joomla CMS for you web-site, the installation of VirtueMart system will take a few minutes. The administration of your shop will be familiar to you as it’s a traditional Joomla backend.

And don’t forget that the Joomla has a lot of third party extensions and can easily use different third party software programs as forums, galleries, blogs and etc. We don’t need to pay for all this additional benefits as you’ll be using the ready Open Source solutions.

VirtueMart is ideally suited for side operators who are using Joomla already, and just want to extend their web presence in the form of a web shop.

So if you want a web portal with a wide functionality which will include the web shop so Joomla is for you. With Joomla you will have possibility to extend your portal with a new features and modules in a minute.

Magento Layout - hi-tech focus

One more Magento design project is successfully finished. this time it was design and installation of Magento shop for an electronics online store. One of the most challenging tasks of this project was the tremendous number of brands and products.

Here are the words that the client said:

Nice work. I’ll recommend your services to anyone! My shop looks different and really professional.

Drupal Ubercart setting up

For many years Drupal was one of the main open source CMS systems on PHP for the sites of almost all types. Small and medium business companies loved it for cheap hosting for their site developed on PHP. Large companies for their project have chosen Drupal because the Drupal community have united many talented developers and have been growing and growing. This guaranteed that it was rather easy to find the appropriate qualified software development team for the project.

The other good features of Drupal CMS helped companies and entrepreneurs to make decision in its favor. Among them are SEO-friendly concept, good level of security and access to the huge list of free Drupal themes.
Ubercart is a module (or maybe better to say it’s a system) what was created specially as a eCommerce solution that would be integrated with all the other Drupal’s core systems and modules. This allowed to inherit all the best features of Drupal system and to integrate it easily.
Today Drupal accompanied by Ubercart can be easily used as an independent e-commerce solution and as a part of a web site. The second variant is widely used when e-commerce is not the company’s main business. For example, spot teams site are dedicated to the team achievements but also can sell some tee with logos using Drupal for both purposes.

But unfortunately Drupal is not really very developer-friendly software. As it was created many years ago the code doesn’t meet all the contemporary software development principles. In some modules the code isn’t well structured and sometimes it can take hours to find a part of a code to make necessary changes if developer is not familiar with Drupal very well.

If you’ve faced these or other Drupal challenges and looking for a team to set up Drupal or Ubercart for your e-commerce purposes Oxagile e-commerce department is at your service. We have more than 3 years of successful experience with Drupal and guarantee that your project will be done in time and within the approved budget.

Contact the manager today to start the project before the weekend.

Design for Magento

As Magento e-commerce solution becomes more and more popular thanks to its advantages and huge amount of additional features, more of our customers want the original design of the shop to be changed.

So, our company decided to add a new service to the list of “Magento development services“. From this day Oxagile can become officially responsible for the impression that your store makes the visitors. By the way, this impression is very essential and can influence the bounce rate of your site greatly!