Managing Magento store: is professional help required?

Though Magento is a content management system that most users are fully capable of managing on their own, sometimes there are occasions when professional assistance is required. Such daily activities of any eCommerce website as setting up prices, managing products and categories, shipping and billing can be dealt with without any help of web developers, but in following situations you might need some assistance:

First of all, you might need professional help for creating custom-made design of your website. Yes, Magento provide an extensive choice of ready-to-install themes, but the problem is that they are not unique, and if you want to catch an eye of your potential customers you need to have a catchy and a visually appealing website. Web developers can take all your wishes and turn them into your dream website with as many plugins and extensions as you need for successful business. Please note that if you have custom made code or plugins, don’t try to update the software by yourself – leave the job to professionals to avoid further complications and incidental expenses.

Though Magento provides quite detailed tutorials and instructions that are open source and easy to find, sometimes inexperienced users might have some problems managing the system. In these situations Florida Magento developers can fix the bugs and get your website back on track.

 In case your website is becoming more and more popular and you need new integration features you can also turn to professional programmers.

Those business owners who want to be ahead of the curve and use the latest technologies know that iPhone apps are taking over the market. So why not create custom made application for your eCommerce website that would increase your profits and build up online awareness of your company? A number of companies provide iPhone apps development to make sure that their clients always stay ahead of their competitors.

As you can see, there are not so many occasions when you need to turn to programmers while using Magento. For more information on the features this eCommerce solution offer read here.

Apple is to compensate more than $100 million

Apple corporation will pay more than $100 million to the parents whose children downloaded paid applications from App Store without permission and bought virtual money for games. The solution of the problem will cost Apple $100 million. Experts debate: parents themselves consider their children not to well understand in technologies and leave them smartphones and tablets at the same time. But modern children handle with the gadgets more freely than the adults.

Apple agreed to compensate more than $100 million. Angry parents addressed to the California court in 2011. They accused Apple of the fact that the children can easily download paid applications and games to iPhone or iPad; besides they can buy without any permission virtual money for games and different goods within mobile applications. It was noticed that in App Store children are able to buy different mobile applications and virtual money without any passwords.

Apple suggested to solve the problem out of court as follows: in case if children spent the insignificant amount the company will return the money as the credit in App Store in amount of $5; if more than $5 were spent the amount will be returned in a full size. And in case if children bought the applications and virtual money for the amount exceeding $30 parents will be able to require the compensation in cash. But to receive the compensation parents will have to prove that the mobile application was downloaded by the underage and the adults didn’t provide the password to the account in iTunes.

The suggested by the company scheme is going to be learnt by California court on Friday. Apple will pay the compensation only on the territory of the USA and the payments will be able to start only in the end of 2013 – beginning of 2014 year.

Apple denied commenting on the situation.

Guest article by Josh Hamilton, Senior Engineer at cell phone company having personal experience with different Hi-tech and engineering solutions, sharing ideas on mobile trends and modern gadgets including mobile amplifier solutions, cool gadgets, networking solutions and other topics.