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December 20, 2016
Mage Titans; a programme lead’s perspective
Our programme lead, Adam talks us through the two talks he found most valuable at the latest Mage Titans conference in Manchester.
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December 16, 2016
Find your ecommerce hero
If you’re in and around the Magento space, you may be familiar with Kalen Jordan and Eric Hileman. Kalen is the co-host of Magento podcast, MageTalk and Eric is the co-founder of Magento hosting provider, MageMojo. The perfect duo to […]
Learn moreTommy Pyatt – November
How are the world’s most successful brands using the psychology of color in their branding By Larry Kim Something that’s fascinated me for a long time is research into how colour affects our perception and mood. This article and infographic […]
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November 25, 2016
‘Redundancy Rocks’ – Mage Titans talk overview
On Saturday 12th November we were proud to host Mage Titans in Manchester. An annual Magento developer conference featuring talks from the leading names in Magento. Here our Technical Lead, Andrei talks us through one of the talks from the […]
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November 21, 2016
Front-end development in Magento 2
Last Monday was a little different to other Mondays. In the wake of Mage Titans, our Magento developer conference in Manchester Saturday 12th November, the whole team came back to the office fully charged and excited to put their learnings […]
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November 18, 2016
2016 DEA winner
Last week we were honoured to attend the Digital Entrepreneur Awards at the Principal Hotel, Manchester. The DEA’s are the longest-standing national tech awards in the UK, showcasing the very best of online entrepreneurialism. Over the years, we have won […]
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November 18, 2016
Mage Titans 2016 – a retrospective
Space 48 founder and Managing Director, Jon Woodall has always been interested in collaborative learning amongst the Magento community. After attending and sending the team to several conferences across the UK, he identified an opportunity to fill a void he […]
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November 8, 2016
The Space48ers invade #MageTitansMCR
If you’re a Magento developer, there is no better place to learn than Mage Titans; a conference designed and curated by Magento developers for Magento developers. We first created this conference to fill what we felt was a void in […]
Learn moreDan Davies – October
Material Design By Google Recently, Google Material Design had a makeover along with introducing a few new tools. I’m a big fan of what Google are doing and always enjoy seeing what this team comes up with. Read more here… […]
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October 21, 2016
Enhancing Magento store security
Security advice from our 1st line support team:
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October 3, 2016
eCommerce Awards 2016 winner
September was certainly a bumper month for Space 48 in terms of awards. We were extremely proud to win ‘E-Commerce Agency of the Year – Large’ at the Northern E-Commerce Awards, and to also be shortlisted in the ‘Beauty, Health […]
Learn moreTony Brown – September
Magento 1.x versus Magento 2.x performance report By Ivan Chepurnyi I recently attended Mage Titans USA, where I had the opportunity to listen to a talk by Ivan Chepurnyi. Ivan has recently been doing extensive work on benchmarking Magento 2 […]
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September 27, 2016
Northern E-Commerce 2016 award winners
‘E-Commerce Agency of the Year – Large’ – winner! WOW, what an achievement, we’re still getting used to it ourselves. Last Wednesday night, we scooped ‘E-Commerce Agency of the Year – Large’ at the Northern E-Commerce Awards!
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September 21, 2016
Mage Titans USA 2016
Our involvement Mage Titans launched in Manchester in 2014, since then our community conference has continued to develop and grow in reputation and attendance.
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September 15, 2016
Tough Mudder 2016
As a team, we’ve taken part in Tough Mudder since 2013 and each year we’ve somehow managed to convince and gain new recruits. This year was no exception.
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New cross-device attribution reports and benchmarks By Google This new AdWords feature is good to see as these reports will help both agencies and eCommerce retailers to better understand the bigger user journey that takes place. It will help them […]
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August 15, 2016
PLATFORM ExO
Thriving in uncertainty PLATFORM ExO is coming to Manchester on the 19th September, and is the first event of its kind. The event is the brainchild of our MD, Jon Woodall and leadership and performance coach, Martin Murphy.
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August 1, 2016
New to AdWords: expanded text ads
Google is evolving text ads for mobile-first consumers.
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July 29, 2016
Magento 2 – when is the right time to move?
With Magento 2 being talked about since 2010 and finally launching in November 2015, many retailers are asking the question ‘When is the right time to migrate?’. As I am sure you are aware by now, there is no big […]
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July 22, 2016
The new Magento Marketplace
Talking to Magento about the new Magento Marketplace; an interview with Tanya Soroka. Tanya Soroka is from the Ukraine and has been with Magento for 7 years. Now residing in the United States, she’s the Senior Product Manager for the […]
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July 13, 2016
Space Camp 48
Last Saturday we spent the weekend in North Wales for our charity family festival, Space Camp 48. You would think that a web development company organising a festival was just a pipe dream, but Jon and the team were determined […]
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June 29, 2016
Google search on mobile – what’s new?
Every year there are trillions of searches happening on Google.com and over half of those searches happen on mobile.
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What now? By Daniel Priestley I recently watched Daniel Priestley’s ‘What now?’ live video on Facebook, where he discussed his take on the EU referendum and the social and economic issues we are currently facing. I’ve been following him for […]
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June 24, 2016
Big Chip 2016 award winners!
Last night was an amazing night at the Big Chip awards, celebrating digital excellence in the North. A great night that was made even better by the fact we were able to bring two awards into the office this morning!
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June 3, 2016
Magento 2 differences: editing products and the Product Detail tab.
The second in a series of articles which illustrate the differences between Magento 1 and Magento 2.
Learn moreOliver Lees – May
Google To Introduce Attribution Model Options For Conversions By William Larcom I like this coming into play as it allows a more holistic approach to AdWords activity. It is interesting that this is being talked about more an more in […]
Learn moreJon Woodall – May
Black Box Thinking By Matthew Syed We have a habit of reframing reality to suit our outlook; but we only learn by mistakes. Check out this great read from Matthew Syed. Read the book here… 4 Global Trends Every Entrepreneur […]
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May 24, 2016
B2B ecommerce update
After recently attending Magento Imagine in Las Vegas, it became very clear that B2B will be a clear focus for Magento in the coming months. There are already many B2B retailers successfully trading on the platform but it is clear […]
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May 20, 2016
Magento 2 differences: filtering in the Admin grid
Welcome to the first in a series of articles which illustrate the differences between Magento 1 and Magento 2; this week we cover filtering in the Admin grid.
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April 29, 2016
Talking to Magento about security
A Space 48 interview with Piotr Kaminski Piotr Kaminski is a Lead Product Manager at Magento, and has been with Magento since the early days way back in 2003. Currently Piotr is responsible for all of Magento 1, Magento application […]
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April 20, 2016
Share the bananas!
TEDx Holyhead As an avid TED Talk fan… I personally really enjoy the TEDx events, attending both the Manchester and Salford events in the past. The independently organised events are implemented in compliance with the TED guidelines, ensuring that each […]
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April 12, 2016
Google Merchant Center requirements
New GTIN requirements Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) are unique product identifiers that define the product you are selling in the global marketplace. In 2015, Google required GTINs for products from a list of 50 brands. Moving forward, the requirements […]
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April 1, 2016
Charlotte Tilbury are shortlisted for Magento’s Imagine Excellence award 2016!
Celebrating commerce innovation Magento’s 2016 Imagine Excellence Award finalists have just been announced! The awards recognise exceptional creativity, innovation and success that merchants across the global Magento community are driving across channels.
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March 31, 2016
TEDx – Jon Woodall
An interview with Jon I’m sure many of you have heard of TED Talks, with their “ideas worth spreading”, they began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment, and Design converge. TEDx are designed to help communities, organisations and […]
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March 24, 2016
London Magento Meetup
London Magento users group – March 2016: Security, Inventory Syncing, and Migrating Data from Magento 1 to 2
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March 18, 2016
Alliance Manchester Business School
Support and sponsorship Space 48’s team pride themselves on just that, being a great team.
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March 1, 2016
The Pomodoro debugging technique
When debugging, it is easy enough to get lost down a rabbit hole whilst trying to pinpoint the cause, and especially so on a new platform like Magento 2. When everything is a learning curve, how can you stop yourself […]
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February 25, 2016
Mage Titans Italia – an overview
So, the videos are now live (!!!) to watch and so I wanted to jot down an overview of the day and share my Mage Titans Italia highlights with you. There was so much that happened so I will try […]
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February 18, 2016
A morning with Magento 2
Recently, we co-hosted a breakfast event with DotMailer and UKFast to introduce merchants to the recently launched Magento 2 ecommerce platform.
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