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How to Create and Use Your Own Custom Font Icons for Web

Easily make your own icon fonts through a few simple steps

When you have finished creating your icons, export each one to its own separate SVG file.

The process is pretty simple, but it could be really confusing if you’re just starting out. Here’s a quick synopsis: You start by creating your own set of icons as SVGs using your favorite vector-editing software, and then you import your SVGs to the coveted Icomoon App! I’ll even show you a couple of different ways. Let’s get started.

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10 eCommerce Experts Give Their Secrets on How They Optimized Their Business in [2016]

Insider trading may be illegal. But sharing optimization secrets is a no holds barred tactic that we here at Engine23 are exploiting.

We know the stress you go through trying to find the right solutions to help you achieve your company's growth goals. So we did a little reconnaissance for you and found ideas that you can take to your next brainstorming session.

We asked eCommerce experts “What were the three most impactful changes you made to your business in the last year?”

Find out what business lessons the eCommerce experts spilled in their responses..

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Ten Awesome Colorado Startups (Updated)

Colorful Colorado! Colorado features majestic scenery, more than 300 days of sunshine a year and more fourteeners than any other state. Colorado also boasts beacoup indoor endeavors, tons of tasty microbreweries (we know this from experience) and oodles of awesome startups!

"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.” - Napoleon Hill

Colorado, known for mining gold to this day, is also a great place to start a business. It offers an enticing atmosphere for all entrepreneurs, even eCommerce. Many startups call this state home. Every month, 350 out of 100,000 adults become a business owner. In 2015, an estimated 14,698 people starting a business in Colorado every month, making 176,379 new business owners.

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Silicon Prairie - Midwest Living to Midwest Technology

The Midwest. Are there advantages of Midwest living or Midwest technology? What is actually there, besides the flyover states. Is it changing with the times, or will it forever just be farmland, to feed and nurture the country? What states are actually considered the Midwest?

Let’s start off with the last question, the government recognizes that North and South Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio as the states that make up the Midwest. We are here to convince you that the Midwest is changing, and if you act now, you could join while the iron is still hot.

You may or may not have heard about the rise of the Silicon Prairie. If you have great, keep reading, and see if there is something you didn’t know. If you haven’t, well keep reading, and learn about the hottest new tech hub in the United States. If you are an IT person, you already know the major places in the U.S. where to be a tech star. Those places are the Silicon Valley, New York City, Chicago, Houston, Washington D.C., well it seems there are a lot of places where tech people thrive in.

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Two Reasons to Learn Backlinks – Traffic and SEO!

How frustrating is it to learn everything you need to know about backlinks? Very, because we know from personal experience that understanding backlinks is not an easy feat. To make your website findable, you will have to find ways to get backlinks. Did you know that Google’s original search engine was based entirely off of a backlink analysis? Leading to my next question, do you know the history of Google and the development of the ranking of the backlink? No? Well let’s not go into the full story of Google’s history, but you can read more about it in the link above. To sum up what the reasoning for how the backlink ranking system came around. Google became public in 1997, it’s was created due to an irritation over not knowing what pages were most useful, and wishing there was a system similar to research papers and citations. Larry Page (co-creator of Google) named his project BackRub, which was to a tool to be able to count and recognize each backlink on the web as if they were citations proving the value of a paper. It would also sum up the importance of the link, and rank it. Nearly, two decades later, and it still a major item on ranking search engine optimization.

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Finding the right Magento event observer - Checkout

There are many many events that fire during checkout.

In particular there is a need to do something special once a checkout has occurred.  Choosing the right one can be tough.  In 1.9 and 1.14 you can use 

checkout_submit_all_after

This may be in earlier versions, but this one is only fired 1 time and allows for good details about the quote/order

NGINX remove index.php from url

When you use nginx, just like apache, by default the Magento URL has index.php. That is fine for Magento development, but very ugly and not search engine optimized. So, the fix, just like apache is a pretty simple one. I am not too sure if there are any implications to this version of removing it, but it seems to work. In you nginx configuration file, you need to add 1 line of code:

server { 
....
rewrite ^/index.php/(.*) /$1 permanent;
....
}

****UPDATE****

This may not work 100% as much as I had hoped. In the Magneto admin it was not allowing my caches to be cleared. You may need to turn on SEO Urls and maybe do some other tweaks to get this to work properly. If I can find an awesome solution I will be sure to update this.

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