Magento Installation Guide

System Requirements At the base level, Magento will require the following software. (You can check your system compatibility using this testing script.) 1 – Linux, Windows, or another UNIX-compatible operating system 2 – Apache Web Server (1.x or 2.x) 3 – PHP 5.2.0 or newer, with the following extensions/addons: PDO/MySQL MySQLi mcrypt mhash simplexml DOM […]

Magento Installation

Installation Please refer to Magento’s system requirements to ensure you have the appropriate platform and environment set up. If you attempted to install Magento and the installation wizard suggested to use the PHP-CGI workaround, please click here. Download the .zip or .tar.gz file from the Magento website and decompress it. Upload the Magento web files […]

Installing Magento on Localhost

This is tested on both XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org) and WAMP (http://www.wampserver.com): Note: on XAMPP the apache directory is just apache while on WAMP the directory is apache2 (please change the instructions below accordingly) Note: check version of PHP, which you will use. Magento not work with PHP 5.3 (for XAMPP, use XAMPP for Windows Version 1.7.1 […]

Sitemaps XML format

This document describes the XML schema for the Sitemap protocol. The Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must be entity-escaped. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded. The Sitemap must: Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset> tag. Specify the namespace (protocol standard) […]

What are Sitemaps?

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and […]

HTML Meta Tags

Example: Describe metadata within an HTML document: <meta name=”description” content=”Free Web tutorials” /> <meta name=”keywords” content=”HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript” /> <meta name=”author” content=”Hege Refsnes” /> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1″ /> Definition and Usage Metadata is information about data. The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine […]

How to Start Private Browsing Session in Google Chrome?

Google Chrome adds in a feature called Incognito which allows users to browse websites without saving history on the computer, this feature is similar to the one available in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. Opening a private or incognito session in Google Chrome is quite easy, you can either use the shortcut key Ctrl + […]

Favicon

A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16 or 32×32 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon and install it into a website (or webpage) by several means, and most […]