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How to add Facebook Like buttons to Magento Go product pages

Recently a client of ours asked if we could add a Facebook Like button to all of the products on their Magento Go site, the idea being that when the button was pressed it would then add the link to that particular product to their Facebook page.

In Magento Community this wouldn’t be too much of a problem, however this particular site is a Magento Go store which doesn’t have the same amount of customisability or extensions. A quick search of the Magento Go documentation brought up a page showing how to add social networking links to Magento Go through a static block, but no reference to what code would be needed to actually connect to Facebook.

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Free Magento Extension : Columnised Navigation

Recently we had need to create a mega menu style navigation element on a client site. The child categories from the primary navigation menu needed to be output in columns, rather than one long list. Now, Magento by default simply outputs a single <ul> in the parent element’s <li>, meaning a pure CSS solution would have ordered children to read left to right, rather than top to bottom.

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