Today I am going to
show you a new experience and information regarding how to
development a magento website, how to add base URL, favicon,
HTML header, how to place image of product,
client contact information and how to manage transactional emails.
Taking any website live
can be a very stressful time as a developer. Your client is pushing
to go live as soon as possible and the pressure can make it easy to
forget steps. I’ve compiled some tips and tricks that I have picked
up on Mean bee’s projects for moving your Magento
store development to production.
Base URLs
These are URLs that are
stored in the database table core config data but can also be
accessed through the admin interface if you have access to it: System
? Configuration? Web. When you move the site, they will need to be
updated otherwise all URLs will be referring back to the staging
site. P.S. Don’t forget the trailing forward slash!
Favicon- Magento
can be hard work at times, but that does not mean you can get away
with making a fool out of yourself by forgetting to create a favicon.
HTML Head- Do not
leave the original settings in the HTML head. You should change the
title and set the meta description and keywords, these are important
for SEO. System? Configuration? General?
Design? HTML Head.
Placeholder Images-
These are the images shown when a product does not have its own
image. Create a default set for your site and place them in:
catalog/products/placeholder/image.jpg,
catalog/products/placeholder/small_image.jpg and
catalog/products/placeholder/thumbnail.jpg. Alternatively they can be
uploaded in admin: System ? Configuration?
Catalog? Catalog? Product Image Placeholders.
Contact Information-
Ensure all the store information and email addresses are set. You
will be able to find these in System ? Configuration ? General and
System ? Configuration ? Store Email Addresses.
Transactional Emails-
Transactional emails use a different logo to the default one. Make
sure that the image that you want to use is saved in your theme
directory as logo_email.gif.
Most of the emails will
now be sorted due to using the configuration that you have already
set. However, there are a couple of templates that as of version
1.4.1.1 still use hard coded values so it’s necessary to go in to
these and make some changes manually. To save you some time, the
email templates that are affected are:
o Newsletter subscription
confirmation – “Demo Store”
o New account
confirmation key – “Demo Store”
o New password – “Demo
Store”
o Share Wishlist –
“Demo Store”
o New Order – “PST”
Plain-text Passwords in
Emails are Evil- It really gripes me when websites send out
plain-text passwords in emails. Unfortunately, Magento does this as
soon as you sign up for an account. So, I would personally recommend
going into the transaction email for account confirmation and replace
the password with some holding text e.g. “********”. If people
are interested in a “click-to-reset” password recovery module for
Magento For security, it is best to change the URL that the admin
interface resides on. This can be set in System ? Configuration ?
Advanced ? Admin ? Admin Base URL.
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