On May 16 2014 Magento Community edition 1.9 was released. Recent Magento CE release brought both great new features and many fixes. Complete list of changes is available at Magento release page.

We can highlight next most important Magento CE 1.9 features and updates:

• New RWD responsive theme
• The Zend Framework has been upgraded to version 1.12.3
• Support for PHP 5.4
• Checkout improvements
• Security Enhancements
• Tax Calculation Fixes
• Web Store and Shopping Cart Fixes
• Promotional Price Rule Fixes
• Administrative Ordering, Invoicing, Credit Memo Fixes
• Payment Method Fixes

For last 2 weeks our development team tested and published multiply 1.9 compatible releases for all our Magento extensions and themes.
So if you are interested either in Page Cache extension or Argento responsive theme or any other product then you can use it on 1.9 without any problem. If you faced any problem with our product then please contact us at our contact form.

Argento is more than just another template created for Magento. It was created right from the ground based on the best ecommerce stores practices and according to Magento developers guidelines. Powered with more than 15 popular Magento extensions and based on CSS3 it will bring your store to absolutely new level. Recent 1.5.0 release comes with new Mall design and multiply extensions updates and fixes.

Argento 1.5.0 release include next updates:

Argento core updates

• ArgentoMall theme added
• Left and right columns moved below the main column for mobile devices
• Product image size increased in list listing
• Original, not resized product image is now used for lightbox popup
• Unable to apply font color to the top navigation fixed
• Ability to override any argento css/templates with custom folder
• Missing images added to skin folder
• Fixed bug when & is not rendered as & in category combobox

Argento Argento design

• Buttons styles rewritten to use the css gradients instead of image
• Added ability to set the background for navigation block

Many css fixes and refactorings:

• Responsive video and slider styles added
• Improved Easycatalogimg styles for the homepage
• Wide price block on product page
• Q-ty input issue for pure theme
• Advanced search form styles
• Footer toolbar styles
• AjaxPro 'More products' button

Extensions updates

• AjaxSearch
• Attribute and Brands pages
• EasyCatalogImg
• Easyslide
• Easytabs
• Highlight
• NavigationPro
• Soldtogether
• and much more....

Find more information on the Argento theme page

Today we are glad to introduce our new extension created to make your store navigation better and to improve your landing pages design. It will help you to organize products from multiple manufacturers or genres.

Our extensions allows to create unlimited number of attributes landing pages and offer complete control over it’s design. Furthermore it also provide 2 powerful widgets that can improve your store design such as brands slider and attributes page list. Extension's capabilities are not limited with just brands pages and you can also use it in order to create pages for different movies genres, books authors or even listing of all available products colors
Magento Brands extension will help you to create attractive attributes and brands pages, improve your navigation with brands widgets. Please check sample of brand listing page that is supported right out of the box. All brands are grouped in alphabetical order and listed in several columns. Such type of pages works good for stores offering wide range of products.

You can use almost any attribute such as brand, color, book author or film genre for attributes page. As soon as you create your first attributes page you can add our attributes widget to your store. For example it can be brands listing slider like shown bellow.

Our extension already completely integrated with our Magento Navigation extension. So for example you can create drop-down list of all brands like shown bellow just in few minutes.

Please find more information on the Magento Brands extension page.

Checkout interface is most important and crucial part of any ecommerce store. Our Firecheckout extension was created in order to make it flexible and provide higher conversion rate. It quickly became very popular and most part of our clients were really satisfied with it. Usually you can't measure satisfaction in numbers but today we can do that! In the current post of our case studies blog series we are really excited to share story of our collaboration with Whitaker Brothers company.

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On September 25 2013 Magento CE 1.8 got available to public users. I hope everyone is excited to find out what new features and fixes recent release brought to Magento community. Complete list of changes is available at release page. According to that information we can consider that release as cumulative bug-fix release.

Magento CE 1.8 general fixes and updates:

• Major overhaul of tax calculation formulas, correction of rounding errors, and additional assistance with configuration.
• Optimized cache adapters for single-server systems
• Upgraded Redis cache adapters for multi-server systems.
• Eliminated many types of database deadlocks.
• Security Enhancements
• United States Postal Service (USPS) Update
• Performance Improvements
• Tax Calculation Fixes
• Discount Calculation Fixes
• API Fixes
• Web Store and Shopping Cart Fixes
• Payment Method Fixes
• Other Fixes

For last few days our support team already received huge number of of questions about using our products with Magento CE 1.8. Our testing team performed basic test and we were not able to locate any serious issue or conflict. So if you are interested either in Argento or Fire Checkout or any other product then you can use it on 1.8 without any problem. Within next 1-2 weeks we will release new version of our themes and extension that will also contain small improvements to code that were introduced in 1.8 version. If you faced any problem with our product then please contact us at our contact form.