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If you want to add features to your online store running Magento , we recommend you use a handy feature: Magento Connect.

This feature will allow you to add the package of the French translation, a new theme, a particular payment system ...

You will find the complete list (166 on the date of publication of this post), here . This list is broken down into three parts:

• Magento core: extensions created and made available by the Magento Team
• Community: it is the contributions of all users of Magento
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The 1.1 version of Magento is finally available, among the major improvements include:

• The response time was improved (about 40%)
• An API has been developed to facilitate the integration of Magento with third party software
• It is possible to create virtual products (without stock or delivery)
• You can create custom products from a choice set (eg creation of a custom computer from various options)
• Management of European and Canadian taxes has been improved

You can download here the new version.

You can find here the official announcement, and the translation here .

You want to engage in ecommerce and put an online store , two options are available:

1. You already have a business and want to expand your sales by launching you into the adventure Internet, by posting some or all of your articles (about a hundred articles).
2. You do not trade, but you want to grow your income by creating a small online store, you can learn from the example of Tocoda example. In this case the first thing to do is to find the right idea. I suggest you go for a ride on a very good site: Adsense Niche , full of ideas for websites all over the original one than the others (like: a site of activities for children or a site of application marriage ...).

You now know how to choose ecommerce, you must determine which platform is most suitable. Read the rest of this article

We have seen in a previous post how to install Magento on your Windows computer , we will see now how to install the test database.

Why go to the page download the Magento site and click on the Download Sample Data.

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When designing your website online business , the visual aspect of your site is very important. This is the first impression that will make you want to or not your prospective buyer to continue on your site or go to your competitor.

We must therefore consider: image quality, speed display, easy navigation through your site ... but the presentation of pictures of your product pages is also important. For example, to display a picture of an item on a black background, when clicked to enlarge it, lets bring it out and have a more pleasing product.

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We saw in our previous post , it was necessary to rework your photographs to get a quick loading of pages on your site ecommerce and thus navigation is more fluid. We also saw how to use the software to do this Xnview.

So we will even here, how rework your images to have a quick loading of your pages by using the free and free to use: Gimp. You can download a version optimized and Frenchified software (click download).
Having downloaded and installed Gimp, we will get a PhotoLabo utility, which allows for resizing for a set of images: FileResize .

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Step 1: Preparing images for integration into your shop for ecommerce

We saw in our previous post: How to optimize photos for your ecommerce product info
the need to rework your photos for fast loading of pages and so navigation on your site is more fluid.

Indeed, although now most users have ADSL, it is impossible for one of your prospective buyers to wait several seconds before displaying a page of your site and I'm not talking about your clients n 'having no ADSL!

We will see how to rework your images to have a quick loading of your pages using a great product developed by Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet: Xnview you can download here . This product is free for non-commercial use, otherwise it will cost € 26 (the date of this post). Read the rest of this article