January 2010

To celebrate Australia Day, we're pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Fontis Australia Extension for Magento. This is a major update to the extension, and includes new functionality to support the flexible generation of data feeds for three comparison shopping sites (Getprice, MyShopping and ShopBot) for member merchants.

If you are a developer or designer working on Magento websites then you will likely have a need to use JavaScript to enhance its functionality and improve the customer experience by introducing dynamic interactive elements. Using an existing JavaScript library simplifies this process and can improve productivity. This post demonstrates the process of integrating the popular jQuery library into your Magento website. Magento already includes the Prototype JavaScript library, but integrating jQuery alongside Prototype allows you to have the best of both worlds.