Articles for March, 2009

Static callout block for CMS page

Mar 14, 09 by lsd 4 Comments » / Filed under Magento Tutorial

Add a footer, Header or Content static callout block for Magento CMS page This article first published in Lotus From The Mud. Magento offers lots of flexibility for Magento theme design, but it takes a bit of digging and exploring before one can learn to do a new simple trick. In the Magento default template, [...]

jQuery Superfish for Magento Cateogry Menu

Mar 14, 09 by lsd 4 Comments » / Filed under Magento Tutorial

Make an accessible Category Menu for Magento using jQuery Superfish Script This article first published in my other site, Lotus From The Mud. The default dropdown Navigation (known as topMenu) in Magento is not accessible because it uses: onmouseover="toggleMenu(this,1)" onmouseout="toggleMenu(this,0)" That means if you add a a:focus to your style sheet, the tab navigation will [...]

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WordPress-and-Magento-integration, part 2

Mar 13, 09 by lsd 1 Comment » / Filed under Magento Journal, Wordpress

It has been a bumpy ride We wrote that we were toying with Magento-WordPress integration in this post and all went well on our local server. Well, it has been a bumpy ride soon as we moved the integration to our live server. The integration works at our local server that runs on Apache 2.0. [...]

8 quick tips for new Magento Users

Mar 6, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under For Magento Store Owner

8 most common problems new users have with Magento store Magento really is a great system, but sometimes it takes a bit of guessing to find a simple feature, and these are the 8 most common problems I see many new Magento user have experienced. I setup Categories but they are not showing in the [...]