Training
Magento Training
Classroom and on-site
training for administrators
and developers.
We offer a range of Magento training courses covering administration, setup and development. As Magento Enterprise Partners, On Tap have a deep understanding of the platform and take a hands-on approach to accelerate your understanding.
We support our own customers' web sites, so we have tremendous experience of the questions and issues that arise from using Magento on a day to day basis. This makes On Tap your ideal training partner.
Our courses take place at our training centre in Central London, but we can also run bespoke on-site courses at your own offices.
Courses for Magento usage
Administrators course
Aimed to Magento novices, this course will give you a thorough understanding of day to day Magento usage. Covering both pre-launch and post-launch topics, this is an essential course to anybody using Magento seriously. more...
Store Builders
Need help setting up and configuring Magento? This course is aimed at store builders looking to optimise and capitalise on their existing Magento stores. From products to transactional emails, this course will get your store up and running. more...
Magento Enterprise course
The course is designed for people who have a good understanding of Magento, and either already the Enterprise edition or are looking to install it. At the end of the course, you will be aware of the new functionality available and how it works. more...
Courses for Magento development
Magento Themes
An insight into building Magento themes - including HTML, PHP and XML. Build your understanding of themes to enable you to customise the look and feel of your own site. more...
Magento Development
A highly technical course aimed at PHP developers looking to extend Magento's functionality through extension development and API usage. more...
Administrators Course
Introduction
This course is designed to accelerate your understanding of Magento so that you are confident in using it on a daily basis. This covers the life cycle of your Magento store - from entering product data prior to launch to ordering processing and management on a daily basis thereafter.
Who is this course for?
The course is designed for people who are new to Magento and will be administering a store on a daily basis. No prior knowledge of Magento is required.
Topics
- Products and product categories
- Attributes and attribute sets
- Order processing
- Customers and customer groups
- Newsletters
- Promotions - catalog and shopping cart rules
- Product reviews and tagging
- CMS pages and static blocks
- Backing up your data
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Course duration: 1 day
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Store Builders Course
Introduction
This course is designed to accelerate your understanding of setting up and configuring Magento. This covers basic concepts such as product and attributes, but also goes into some depth to show you how shipping rules, tax and store scopes come into play as a Magento site gets bigger.
Who is this course for?
The course is designed for people who already have a good understanding of Magento's features from daily usage, but need help to create a new store or optimise the configuration of an existing store. If you are making the leap from a single Magento store to multi-store retailing, then this course is ideal.
Topics
- Products and attributes
- Entering and importing product data
- Store scopes - websites, stores and store views
- Themes - installing themes
- Shipping - creating shipping rules
- Tax - creating tax rates
- Promotions - catalog and shopping cart rules
- Payment gateways - overview and implementation
- Transactional emails - creating email templates
- Magento Connect - installing and upgrading Magento extensions
Magento Enterprise course
Introduction
As Magento Enterprise Partners, On Tap have a deep understanding of the Enterprise edition and our dedicated course will give you an hands-on training of specific Enterprise functionality.
Who is this course for?
The course is designed for people who have a good understanding of Magento, and either already the Enterprise edition or are looking to install it. At the end of the course, you will be aware of the new functionality available and how it works.
Topics
- Reward points
- Administrator permissions and roles on a per-store basis
- Gift Certificates/Cards
- Staging servers for on-demand and scheduled content merges
- Private sales - events, invitations and access permissions
- Customer balances
- Rich Merchandising Suite
- CMS+ and widgets
- BridgeConnect - integration with ERP, CRM and other back-end systems
Upcoming courses
Course duration: 1 day
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Magento Themes course
Introduction
Magento Themes gives a thorough insight into building Magento themes. This includes both the HTML and XML elements of a theme. On Tap have in-depth experience of building themes for clients across the world. Please note, the course focuses on the technical aspects of theme development, rather than the design or cosmetic elements.
Who is this course for?
The course is designed for people who already have experience of using Magento and need to be able to customise the visual elements of their website. The course is fairly technical, and you will need to have a good understanding of both HTML and XML in order to participate. In addition, a knowledge of PHP is required, although not to a high level.
Topics
- Introduction to Magento themes
- Building a basic theme
- Store scope: websites, stores and store views
- Layout XML
- Understanding hierarchy
- CMS static content in themes
- Linking themes
- PHP in themes
- Design advice
- Debugging themes
- SEO in theme design
- Optimising page load times
Upcoming courses
Course duration: 1 day
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Magento Development course
Introduction
This course gives an in-depth technical overview of Magento from the perspective of extending its functionality. This is a highly technical course aimed at developers wanting to move into Magento development.
Who is this course for?
The course is aimed at PHP developers who wish to extend the functionality of Magento. You will need a very good understanding of PHP in order to participate in this course, with a strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, or Zend Framework experience. In addition, a good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and XML is required.
Topics
- Directory structure and naming conventions
- The right way and the wrong way of Magento development
- Overriding blocks
- Overriding classes
- Observers and the event model
- SOAP AND XML-RPC API
- Advanced extension techniques
Upcoming courses
Course duration: 1 day
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On-site training
Introduction
In addition to our classroom based courses, we can also provide training on-site in your office. Choose from any of our existing classes, or design your own bespoke training - we will tailor the training specifically to your requirements.
Where do we travel to?
We'll travel anywhere in the UK.
More information
If you are interested in on-site training please contact us with your requirements.