Given these growth estimates, some online retailers are taking steps to improve the shopping experience for site visitors using smartphones and tablets. What follows are three tips for further optimizing an ecommerce site for mobile.

As the online and offline worlds converge, mobile commerce has the potential to eclipse desktop-based ecommerce and, perhaps, even replace a significant portion of traditional retail shopping.

Mobile-driven online sales in the U.S. are expected to reach $2.12 billion in 2013 and explode to about $62.2 billion in the next three years, according to an eMarketer report. With such phenomenal growth, some change is bound to come.

There are at least seven ways that mobile commerce is likely to change retail shopping and marketing. Online and multi-channel retailers should start preparing for these changes now.

In the Magento Admin where you set your Design Package you can also set an “Exception”. This will look for matched user agents and use the stated theme instead of the default theme.

Sooner or later, you will probably want to install a Magento theme other than the default. The good news is, Magento theme installation is quick and easy. This will be accomplished in just 3 simple steps.

The Mobile commerce universe is becoming immensely big and studying the myths associated with the industry is relatively tough. While many ecommerce business owners are considering creating a mobile app, most others think of having a mobile website. However, individuals who show interests on both of them are quite rare. On one side it seems like creating a mobile app is the best option if you are running on multiple websites for your business. On the other end it seems like having a fully customized mobile website will work great. In this post we will discuss on the advantages of mobile apps and mobile websites, so that you will be able to easily choose the apt one for your ecommerce business.
Mobile Websites

We have released Daily Deal extension which helps you create and manage deals for your site in the most professional way.
This module allows you to create deal for one or multiple products. The purchase step of deal is as same as a normal product so all payment methods like PayPal, Moneybookers… are supported.
With Daily Deal, you are able to set the promotion time to be daily, weekly or for how long as you wish.
The Deals could be shown on Daily deal page, Product page or Sidebar at your convenience.

As we recently learned, it’s pretty straight forward to redirect your mobile visitors to a mobile-optimized theme, the natively supplied iPhone theme.

However, after the initial euphoria of our success, we realize that we want to start changing some things, like the logo and maybe have a mobile specific home page.

This tutorial* will show you how to start customizing your mobile store theme, but first, let’s see how we’re going to set up our testing environment.

Have you heard the hottest technological trend in web development? It is the style of drifting ‘MOBILE’. We see that the current technological market is being governed by Smartphones and tablets and hence websites and applications have got no other way to escape from going mobile. It has become pretty needy for websites and applications to have customized for both desktop computers and mobile devices. Since people have started to realize the significance and comfort of using mobile devices in order to access their beloved websites and social networks, ‘mobile web’ has become a widespread term these days. However, the problem comes in deciding on what phone to purchase and which phone comes with multiple features.

Mobile devices happen to be the rapidly growing division of the online eCommerce world. Analyzing the previous holiday season (especially the Thanksgiving and Black Friday occasion held recently), the global mobile payment volume has doubled the value from last year. A recent research conducted by Compuware says that there is a 250% increase in the number of iPad page views when compared to 2011. In order to exploit the mobile commerce opportunity, both marketers and businesses need to deliver some exceptionally fast and reliable experiences on mobile devices, thereby matching the excellence of a laptop or desktop PC. Illustrated below are few exemplary tips which can be tried in order to maximize the site performances on smartphones and tablets.

Among pool for Magento extensions there are few categories which are highly appreciated by store owners because of value added functionality. These categories include user experience, layout and presentation at the most alongside others because the most important factor is how user should be engaged on store which could result sales. Different approaches are adopted by different store owners to present their products and services but most of them find it easy to go by brands or manufacturers scheme of presentation. Shop by Magento extension makes it even more simpler and easier to display products of a similar brand in order to induce more user interaction and engagement on the site. In the following MageShop, you will find top 7 extension for Shop by magento extension which you may use to increase visibility of your products and having more chances of conversions.