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UK Magento tips

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 by Lee

Magento is in our opinion, the best E-Commerce system out there. Here we will give a few basic tips for those looking to setup a UK based Magento site.

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The first thing you will want to do is download the UK locale files and upload via FTP. You will then want to check that you have configured the options in the configuration section of the admin console to reflect the options you need. From the backend, head over to System / Configuration, you will then want to check the General (General, Currency Options), Sales (VAT, delivery and sales), Admin (System) these pages contain most of the UK based options you will want to set.

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Browser choice for European Windows users

Monday, March 1st, 2010 by Lee

Windows users, like Mac users, have always had the option of installing a different browser to the one pre-installed on their computer. However, for the casual PC user, the internet, quite simply, has been Internet Explorer, until now that is.

After pressure from the European commission, Microsoft has agreed to proactively offer the user of one of browser twelve browsers. These options will become available to those that update via the Microsoft Windows update system from today (Monday, 1st March 2010).

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Twitter ads

Monday, March 1st, 2010 by Lee

Popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter, is considering implementing advertising into people’s feeds, also into 3rd party services such as TweetDeck.

The important thing to note is that ads will only be displayed when searching, not all the time, so a search for bike for example, might show a Halfords ad.

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