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Best Magento Themes With a Mega Drop-Down Menu / Navigation
Best Magento Themes With a Mega Drop-Down Menu / Navigation
Jill Govier

A new way to improve customer experience and usability through your Magento eCommerce website is to have a visually appealing and easy to navigate mega drop-down menu. Websites using a mega drop-down menu are able to have extra content without causing the website to appear cluttered and hard to navigate. A mega drop-down menu lets […]

What’s Trending: 2014 eCommerce Website Design
What’s Trending: 2014 eCommerce Website Design
Caitlin Mekita

As you know, trends in web design are always changing. Ecommerce design is no exception to the rule. Ecommerce design, however, is slightly different because the changes are usually more functional than simply visual or trend based. Ecommerce websites have a simple goal in mind: to make it as easy as possible for users to […]

Ultimo Magento Theme Review and Customization Techniques
Ultimo Magento Theme Review and Customization Techniques
Caitlin Mekita

Ultimo is one of the best-selling themes available for Magento eCommerce online stores. It is responsive and has impressive sales and stellar reviews. At Shero Designs, we have a lot experience working with and customizing the Ultimo Magento theme, and we’d like to share our advice and recommendations for using the Ultimo Magento theme to […]

Use Better Images in Magento to Improve Sales
Use Better Images in Magento to Improve Sales
Caitlin Mekita

When shopping online one of the difficulties we all encounter is that the products we try to buy are intangible. When going to the mall, for example, we can physically see and touch a product we are interested in. Buying something over the internet doesn’t allow for such an experience. As a result, buyers can […]

How to Make Your Magento Store Mobile Friendly: Mobile App or Responsive Design
How to Make Your Magento Store Mobile Friendly: Mobile App or Responsive Design
Gentian Shero

As mobile devices are becoming more advanced, mobile web browsing and shopping is starting to take over PC-based browsing. To stay up to date with the shopper’s trends Magento website owners need to take their Magento websites mobile. How can you decide what options there are and how much does a Magento Mobile website cost? […]

eCommerce websites in 2014 – what to look for
eCommerce websites in 2014 – what to look for
Caitlin Mekita

1. Responsive design & mobile eCommerce We’ve been talking about this for a while, but it will become more important in 2014. While the past few years have been focused on designing for smaller and smaller devices, 2014 will also demand consideration of larger devices. This is why the mobile vs desktop trend will be […]

New Magento Website Launch – NCMA at Bigelow Laboratory
New Magento Website Launch – NCMA at Bigelow Laboratory
Caitlin Mekita

Shero Designs is happy to announce the launch of our latest project for NCMA at Bigelow Laboratory. A lot of hard work, thought, and preparation went into making this project a success. Below you can read about the challenges we faced and the solutions that we devised using both our own customization and the implementation […]

Top five Magento Themes for ease of use, customization and functionality
Top five Magento Themes for ease of use, customization and functionality
Caitlin Mekita

Choosing a theme for your Magento eCommerce website is a big decision. When making the investment of opening up an online store, it’s crucial to choose correctly and think critically. You need to know what you’re looking for, so we first need to answer the question: What makes a theme great? 1. It suits your […]

How Magento Store Owners Earn Their Customers’ Trust
How Magento Store Owners Earn Their Customers’ Trust
Caitlin Mekita

One of the most important factors that determines the success of an online eCommerce store is how credible a website is and how to convert visitors into buyers. Since our area of specialization is Magento this article refers to Magento website credibility builders to boost sales. These principles can also be applied to other eCommerce […]