I just came across this Magento template that I really like. Here is the link to this free Magento template

Got a Magento store and want to use Google Analytics to track commerce statistics? In Magento, it’s just plain easy.

Grab your Analytics account number, this will always start with UA.

Login to your Magento admin and goto: Configuration -> Google Api -> Google Analytics.

Set “activate” to “yes” and insert the full account number in the field below.

That’s it!

You need a Magento shop?

Choose of our Magento templates (or contact us for a custom Magento template) and contact us with the template you want. We will make it into a working shop for only 1199 euro’s!

We’ve been very busy, besides developing a few internal templates for clients we have now also finished a template for everyone to see.

So here it is, VinoWino is a wine shop developed for one of our new clients. You can buy all sort of wines and try the very cheap sample packages.

Let us know what you think!

If you need a custom template, contact us. If you want to choose from 100′s of other awesome templates, go here

Free Magento Theme

Here is the first Free Magento Theme we are releasing of many more to come.

Inspire Blue is simple, clean and professional and free for download. All we ask of you is to keep the link on the frontpage to show your appreciation for our work.

Custom Magento Themes

Need a custom magento theme? We can do that for you! Contact us by sending a mail to magento@osetemplates.com

Download link: Inspire blue

Checkout this Red Magento Theme, perfect for the upcoming valentines day!. Based on the Modern Magento theme this template is very professional.

SPECIAL OFFER – 50% OFF!!

The template is currently on special offer until January 2009!

Click here to view and purchase

Setting permissions for MagentoConnect can be a little tricky at times, especially in a production environment. The best, most secure way to go about installing Connect updates is by using Pear.

SSH in to your server, head to the Magento install directory and issue command:

./pear mage-setup .

DON’T forget the trailing . Next install the Connect you require…

./pear install magento-core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern

Where “magento-core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern” is the key taken from MagentoConnect.

You need write permissions with your shell user in the theme and skin directory.

As you can probably tell things have been a bit busy around here lately. Today see’s the launch or ArtJuxstaposition (artjux.com) a custom ecommerce website.

In brief a ton of PSD designs were sent across along with materials for products. A month later and it’s a working website.

If you would like to make use of our expert services please contact us at magento@osetemplates.com

The easy way to set your MySQL path in Magento is by editing the /app/etc/local.xml file with your new details. A good example when you may need this is if your are migrating Magento across servers.

<default_setup>
<connection>
<host><![CDATA[localhost]]></host>
<username><![CDATA[username]]></username>
<password><![CDATA[password]]></password>
<dbname><![CDATA[database]]></dbname>
<active>1</active>
</connection>
</default_setup>


You’ll probably know by now that the transactional email templates in Magento are a bit, with respect, “naff”. To edit through the admin will take forever and a day so here’s a couple of useful solutions to help make things easier.

1. Locate the email templates

The Magento email templates are located in (note: “en_US” may change depending on language).

magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\account_new.html”(24,48):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\admin_password_new.html”(27,73):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\newsletter_subscr_confirm.html”(28,69):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_creditmemo.html”(23,63):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_creditmemo.html”(75,62):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_invoice.html”(23,63):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_invoice.html”(75,62):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_new.html”(23,63):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_new.html”(79,62):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_shipment.html”(23,63):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_shipment.html”(81,62):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_update.html”(26,52):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\password_new.html”(24,41):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\wishlist_share.html”(23,65):

2. Edit your information in

replace alt=”Magento” with alt=”your store name”

replace Magento Demo Store with your store name

replace mailto:magento@varien.com with mailto:email@yourstore.com

replace dummyemail@magentocommerce.com with email@yourstore.com

replace (800) DEMO-STORE with (0800) YOUR STORE NUMBER

replace Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm PST with your own store opening times and timezone

3. Advanced – Automated Shell Script

Another option would be to create a shell script with all you’re information in which goes through the directories in question and replaces text as we need. Note: You will need your Store View Name and Store Name to match your domain name.

#!/bin/sh
phone=(123)456-7890

find app/locale/en_US/template/email/sales -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/alt=”Magento”/alt=”{{var order.getStoreGroupName()}}”/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email/sales -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/Magento Demo Store/{{var order.getStoreGroupName()}} /g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email/sales -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/mailto:magento@varien.com/sales@{{var order.getStoreGroupName()}}/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email/sales -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/dummyemail@magentocommerce.com/sales@{{var order.getStoreGroupName()}}/g’ {} \;

find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/alt=”Magento”/alt=”{{var customer.store.name}}”/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/Magento Demo Store/{{var customer.store.name}} /g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/mailto:magento@varien.com/sales@{{var customer.store.name}}/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/dummyemail@magentocommerce.com/sales@{{var customer.store.name}}/g’ {} \;

find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i “s/(800)DEMO-STORE/$phone/g” {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i “s/(800)DEMO-NUMBER/$phone/g” {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i “s/(800) DEMO-NUMBER/$phone/g” {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i “s/(800) DEMO-STORE/$phone/g” {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm PST/24×7/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/logo_email.gif/logo.gif/g’ {} \;