Magento

May 15, 2012

Magento 1.7 now available: summary of new features

We’re excited by the latest Magento Community Edition release: Magento 1.7. It represents a good feature upgrade and wins our vote for businesses happy with Community Edition, wishing to obtain new capabilities, coupled with the round of updates & huge amount of reliability/performance improvements from Magento 1.6. We summarise the new features in Magento 1.7 [Read more]

Mar 28, 2012

E-commerce website design: do home page carousels work?

Useful analysis of carousels – you know, those “rotating” images people put on their home pages. Bad carousels in Flash, which is a complete no-no, as they don’t work on iPhones etc. The bottom line is that visitors get confused, frustrated and irrelevant content. The solution? Test.

Dec 09, 2011

Magento performance and scaleability

Screen Pages recently analysed the performance of its Magento hosting system during a busy seasonal period on a client’s website. In summary, we have every confidence that Magento can scale significantly – at relatively low cost – to handle large volumes of transactions. Screen Pages is aware that some Magento website owners struggle with the [Read more]


Oct 30, 2011

Meet Magento 50 E-commerce Tips

Roger Willcocks, director at Screen Pages, had the honour of presenting at Meet Magento UK, on 25th November at the Queen Elizabeth conference centre in Westminster. Roger presented to over 300 Magento professionals over 50 tips on how to increase your online sales using Magento, focussing on customer acquisition, engagement, persuasion, transacting and measurement.

Oct 11, 2011

Meeting Magento at E-commerce Expo

Sarah Willcocks discusses the marketing suite on Magento Enterprise with Kristel Verhasselt.

Sep 23, 2011

Magento gets Facebook Want

Many of you will be aware of the new Facebook updates and in particular, the new range of buttons which supercede the ubiquitous Facebook Like. Now there will be a Want button, ideal for shoppers to express their desires.”Wanting” something will make the object appear in your Wishlist on Facebook and also in your Newsfeed. [Read more]


Sep 16, 2011

Magento videos and demonstrations

We have compiled a list of Magento videos and demonstration websites to help online retailers get a feel for how Magento works and what e-commerce facilities are available. See our Magento Video page.

Jun 30, 2011

Magento partners summit, London: Magento strategy and development

As an official Magento Solution Partner, we attended the partner summit yesterday to catch up with senior Magento management and hear more about Magento and its strategy. Magento as a company is expanding rapidly, growing from 45 staff to 300 in recent times. Now, it’s an important part of the Ebay universe. Ebay is promoting [Read more]