When you assign multiple themes to your store, you’re essentially taking advantage of the fact that while your main goal when building a theme is to create the most usable and visually pleasing graphical interface, the goal of Magento’s is to ensure that the application is able to locate and load all the files of [...]
Note: Capacity for unlimited themes will become available with the upcoming releases. Although at the time of writing only two themes can be loaded at once, the workings behind the scenes remain the same and you will benefit from this documentation.
Holiday seasons by far offer the most extensive sales opportunity for any eCommerce store — [...]
Let’s first unveil some directories to get you going. Open the following directories in your Magento root and do get nosy:
Directory 1: app/design/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the layout, translation (locale) and template materials.
Directory 2: skin/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the images, CSS and block-specific Javascripts.
When working with themes, these two directories will remain your [...]
The term ‘theme’ probably sounds to you a familiar ring. Either as an audience, a creator, or both, you’ve experienced the sea of available web applications options via its themes. A theme has largely two types of users – First, the audience–type who experiences it from the aesthetical and usability standpoint by browsing through a [...]
A new iPhone optimized Magento theme is now available via Magento Connect. As part of the upcoming Magento 1.1 release, automatic detection and delivery of packages, theme(s) (templates, skins, css, layouts) based on the user-agent (client) may be associated on a global, website and store view.
Magento is now mobile ready for every out of the [...]
