Articles for the ‘For Web Designer’ Category
Change grid view column for Product Listing
In v1.4 Magento, changing columns in Grid View for product listing page has become easy, however there is still confusion and it does not seemed to be working right out-of-the-box. First let’s see what we have in Default theme. In catalog.xml, around line #97 and line #138 both in “Category default layout” and “Category layered [...]
Template Path Hints
Magento has a thoughtful feature that can help developers to quickly locate a xml file, a phtml template file, this feature is extremely useful especially for developers who are new to Magento development, as well as Magento store owner who purchased a commercial Magento theme, setup the Magento site by him/herself. To switch on template [...]
Magento Feature: Merge JavaScript Files
In the previous versions of Magneto, all the Javascript files came with Magento and are placed in “page.xml”, were merged in one link automatically and it was only capable of merging up to 10 JS files. Since version 1.4, a new feature, “Merge JavaScript Files” has added and is not set to Yes by default. [...]
Creative use of Static Block
The power of Static Block and how to use it for your Magento design Of all Magento features, what we like most is the static block, we guess the reason is because we are Magento theme developer therefor we spend a great deal of time contemplating design and layout, and we think hard to always [...]
Custom Variables
Custom Variables is one of the features added in Magento v1.4. whether you are a Magento web developer or store owner, you will love this new feature as it takes away the tedious editing in each email template…
Extend the use of links.phtml
In Add a CSS class to Magento menu links article we showed you how to add a CSS class to li or anchor tag in “action method=”addLink” that uses links.phtml, but you may not aware that you can use the same template file to extend a link block type. In this article we will show [...]
Add a CSS class to Magento menu links
Template file for link list menu Ever wonder or ever hit your head on the wall what bloody template file controls the site link, footer link in Magento and how to add a class to it? That’s right, it’s the page/template/links.phtml. The template file generates ‘first’ and ‘last’ class in li tag, but sometimes we [...]
Parent category with image in a CMS page
Get Magento parent categories listing with image in a CMS page A Magento project we were working, client wanted to show all parent categories with their respective images in a cms page, we did something similar before for other magento projects however they were called to a subcategory listing page by calling a CMS block [...]
5 Ultimate Checklist for Magento Store Owner
5 Ultimate Website Launch Checklist for Magento Store This checklist really is a common knowledge and a practise everyone should observed whether your magento site is developed by you utilizing a free theme or done by a web developer. We are astonished to stumble on many magento sites that went live without the final check. [...]
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