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If you are a Magento Developer then this article shows how to you create and use custom language translation CSV file for your module. Since Magento has built in functionality for translations, you can internationalize your module with different languages.

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After developed a Magento site, someone may forgot some clean-up tasks and they wanna take the site to be launch as production store as soon as possible.

In shorten, you may want to cleanup dusting files and folders, reseting files' permissions to prevent security holes, remove all testing content including orders, customers, etc.

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A Magento theme is comprised of templating files (layout, template, locale) and/or skin files (CSS, images, theme-specific JavaScript) that create the visual experience of your store. These files reside in two main directories in your Magento file system:

• “App/design” directory – Files that control how the page templates are rendered

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With the popularity of the social networking, it is becoming more and more common to integrate aspects from social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Google plus, etc into e-commerce stores, such as those powered by the Magento platform. Social media can provide a fantastic opportunity for e-commerce store owners to participate and engage with existing and potential customers while increasing the awareness of their products among a wider audience.

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Installing Magento 1.8 new theme using Magento Connect manager is very simple. By default Magento had one theme, and you want to change that theme and add your required theme through  Magento Connect manager, please follow these steps:

On Admin section, go to System -> Magento Connect -> Magento Connect Manager as bellow screenshot.

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