osCommerce is among the  first open source shopping cart applications available on the Internet and grew rapidly during its early days. However lately it has been completely over shadowed by Magento mainly due to the extensive feature list that Magento provides out of the box and also due to factors like security and scalability where [...]

Trying to change the default text and labels in Magento usually involves drilling through multiple template files and doing a whole lot of Find and Replace. For example trying to change the default text from ‘Log In’ to  Sign In or change ‘My Cart’ to Shopping Cart etc. would require you to turn on Template Hint Paths [...]

As a part of your Magento implementation more often than not you will need to modify some of the core Magento files. Most novices and even regular Magento developers resort to directly making changes to the php files located under the \app\code\core\Mage. This is a wrong practice because in future if you upgrade your Magento version all these [...]

While customizing the theme in Magento one of the biggest challenges is trying to understand which block of content comes from which file. Trying to drill down through the various files and folders under a Magento theme can be quite overwhelming. However luckily for us, there is a neat simple option that can considerably save your time. [...]