Magento Extensions we use for customization of email, product display and content

Contributed by Govind Dalwani on 20 Sep 2013

The Magento extension we use for the purpose of Content is:

AW_Blog

Company:

Aheadworks

Project used in:

Giftease.com

Rock.in

Miraistore

Extension URL:

www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/blog-community-edition.html

Description:

The Blog extension for Magento allows you to add blog content using this extension. It not only provides customers with regular up-to-date information but brings additional visitors to your site, builds relevant SEO-friendly text links and provides assistance in building your sales strategy.

Why we chose this extension:

The client’s requirement was to create a blog which helps add and update a blog. This extension was more flexible than the others that were available to us.

Customization done in this extension:

We modified the display and layout format as per requirement.  We also added and removed fields from the blog accordingly.

Other extensions available:

http://fishpig.co.uk/wordpress-integration.html

http://www.magpleasure.com/blog-pro.html

The Magento extension we use as a Customized Mail Sender is:

Aschroder_SMTPPro

Project used in:

Giftease.com

Extension URL:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/aschroder-com-smtp-pro-email-free-and-easy-magento-emailing-for-smtp-gmail-or-google-apps-email.html

Description:

This extension provides complete control of the Email settings for Magento. It can connect to and send mails with any custom SMTP server, your Gmail or Google Apps account and even on version 1.4.3 of your Amazon AWS Simple Email Service (SES) account.

Why we chose this extension:

The client’s requirement was to add email hosting for SMTP and this extension allowed for SMTP email hosting.

Customization done in this extension:

No.

The Magento extension we use for product display is

Image Zoom

Company:

Cue Blocks

 

Project used in:

Giftease.com

Extension URL:

www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/cueblocks-zoom.html

Description:

This extension helps zoom on any image on the product details page. The user can mouse-over the image and the zoomed-in image view of that particular area of the image shows up on the screen next to the main image (user can magnify a specific part of the image without having to open the image in a new window).

Why we chose this extension:

The client’s requirement was to have a better view of an image through zoom functionality and this required an image equal to or greater than 800*800 pixels.

Customization done in this extension:

No.

Other extensions available:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/vs-featurezoom.html

http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom/modules/magento/

http://www.ajax-zoom.com/demo/magento/index.php/chair.html

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