Articles for the ‘For Magento Store Owner’ Category

Do not use the same name for Website Name and Store Name

May 29, 10 by lsd No Comments » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner

A customer who bought our New Green theme wanted us to help find out why the topLinks menus are not showing up in his site. Over two years selling premium Magento themes, we have received many types of support request that the issues were not related to our themes but due to incorrect setting in [...]

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Change grid view column for Product Listing

May 23, 10 by lsd 2 Comments » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner, For Web Designer, Magento Journal

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 [...]

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Template Path Hints

May 13, 10 by lsd No Comments » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner, For Web Designer, Magentonary

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 [...]

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Magento Feature: Merge JavaScript Files

May 11, 10 by lsd No Comments » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner, For Web Designer, Magento Journal

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. [...]

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Custom Variables

Apr 2, 10 by lsd 1 Comment » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner, For Web Designer, Magentonary

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…

Use WordPress blog for your Magento store’s SEM

Dec 31, 09 by lsd 2 Comments » / Filed under Boosting basket size, For Magento Store Owner, Wordpress

We develop 3-in-1 Magento and WordPress matching themes, so we will focus on the pros to having a WordPress blog and show you how you can use a blog to help with your store’s search engine marketing.

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Don’t desert your 404 page

Dec 11, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under Boosting basket size, For Magento Store Owner

Spice up your magento store’s 404 page, don’t desert it Ideally, you should never let your visitor sees a 404 page. But accident happens and when it does, show your visitor something nice, useful, informative instead. First let’s see how other Magento stores do with their 404 page we randomly picked from the Magento showcase [...]

Magento product feed in WordPress blog

Dec 10, 09 by lsd 1 Comment » / Filed under Boosting basket size, For Magento Store Owner, Wordpress

Display Magento’s category or product feed in your WordPress’ blog If you run a Magento store and a WordPress blog, chances are, you would want to have your category or products feed show up in your blog, and vice versa. In this article we will show you how to do it for WordPress’ Blog. First [...]

Setting up a second homepage in Magento

Jul 31, 09 by lsd 6 Comments » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner

Setting up a second homepage in Magento If you run multi-store in a single Magento installation with different themes (e.g. two stores), you need to setup a second homepage for your second store, and it’s fairly simple. Simply go to CMS > Manage CMS pages to create a new page with below setting: Page Title: [...]

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