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. [...]
An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices
The Online Course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices kicked off today and we are one of the participants – you just can’t learn the best practices of mobile web development anywhere else than from W3C! We anticipate it’s going to be a very busy 8 weeks starts from today as we will [...]
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…
Remove or change “Browse other premium themes” text in the footer
The block you see in the below screen shot is a Store Switcher feature. We do not remove it from the theme package because some of our customers have multi-store setup that the Store Switcher is useful for them. To change the “Browse other premium themes”, go to “page/switch/stores.phtml”. You should be able to find [...]
New Green Theme: Tabs Section in Homepage is broken
My homepage is broken! Cause: You must assign at least one New Product or a Best Seller product must be available (this means a test checkout had performed) in “Latest Best Sellers” tab. Refer to “Bestsellers Module” and “New Products Module” instructions in the “special-instructions.html” in the theme pacakage.
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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