Archive for November 2010

A recent request from many magento clients in later version of magento is the paypal problem.

Any new orders paid for by paypal automatically become set to ‘Complete’ this causes problems for many clients due to orders been missed or in one customer case they export all orders as they are processed filtered by the status processing so many orders were easily missed.

This is a small bug in Magento but we have found a simple fix for this, I would only recommend this to be carried out by a confident person in coding as one slip can break the system.

To fix this issue follow these simple steps below.

Locate File: app/code/core/Mage/Paypal/Model/standard.php

On line 423 you should have this line of code:
Mage_Sales_Model_Order::STATE_COMPLETE, true,

Replace this line with
Mage_Sales_Model_Order::STATE_PROCESSING, true,

Save and upload and this will set new paypal orders to processing when payment is complete.

We hope this has helped, should you require help with this or any aspect of Magento Ecommerce Web Design feel free to drop us an email

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We have now developed more than 20 websites on the world’s finest Ecommerce platform ‘Magento’, ever since we started using this our Ecommerce Web Design packages have become more popular than ever, now ranking 4th in Google for Ecommerce Web Design, we are fast becoming a well known name in the Ecommerce industry.

To help our customers understand the power of our Ecommerce system we have put together a document with a extensive list of the features available in our Ecommerce stores.

The list includes all features that Magento is capable of we always advise during quoting of a new website what features come as standard and what would be additional setup but by viewing this list it will give you an idea of how powerful this system really is.

We are currently looking at upgrading our server network to ensure all current clients and new clients benefit from super fast hosting and strong infrastructure.

Backed by one of the UK’s leading online retailers 2J Design and Media are looking forward to putting some big plans into action in 2011.

To view our Ecommerce Features Document CLICK HERE

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This seems to becoming a common issue with the latest update to magento.

Here are solutions to fix this issue on both product names and Categories.

For Categories you have to edit one of the files so you need FTP access.

Find this file:  app/design/frontend/MYTHEME/template/catalog/category/view.phtml


Then change the lines similar to this code:

<h2><?php echo $_helper->categoryAttribute($_category, $this->htmlEscape($_category->getName()), 'name') ?></h2>
To
<h2><?php echo $_helper->categoryAttribute($_category, $_category->getName(), 'name') ?></h2>
This should resolve the issue on category names, might be worth flusing your magento cache to be sure.
FOR PRODUCT NAMES
This can be corected from the magento admin.
Go to Catalog – Attributes – Manage Attributes
Then find the attribute called ‘name’
Edit this attribute and find the option for Allow HTML in Frontend, enable this and this should resolve the issue.
If you require further help or assistance on Magento or Ecommerce Web Design drop us a email, any solutions to problems we find to help other we will try to post here as much as possible

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Its been a busy time at 2J Design over the past few months, not only did my Wife have a baby boy so had to take abit of time out we are working on securing a new partnership with a leading online retailer, in the coming months we will announce details about our merge with another company which will be very beneficial to our company. This will enable us to offer more full time jobs, more services than ever before. The plans are very exciting and I’m itching to tell you all more but all will be revealed soon.

In  the meantime were working on a new Ecommerce Web Design portfolio and offers, we will also be launching out SEO packages, we have always offered Search Engine Optimsation but never promoted this due to the amount of time that has to be allocated but due to such high client demands after seeing our results for our Ecommerce Clients we have almost put in place a infrastructure to handle SEO requests. We are currently taking on new clients and are trying to avoid working with more than one client per sector, I believe this is only fair to all customers so were not competing against ourselves.

Keep checking back to the blog for more news and launches of websites. Lots of exciting news coming soon and look our for Job Vacancies that will soon be available.

Till Next time.

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