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Do not use the same name for Website Name and Store Name
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 [...]
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…
Use WordPress blog for your Magento store’s SEM
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.
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 [...]
Don’t desert your 404 page
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 [...]
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