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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]