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Add Custom PHTML Templates to Magento CMS Pages
Developing custom PHP (PHTML) template files for a Magento package or theme offers more flexibility and greater latitude than s... 3 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 24: The Final Episode
The Pine Theme will be complete with a few more changes to the checkout pages. For the past few months, I have been describing... 7 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 23: User Account and Checkout Styles
With the Pine Theme rapidly nearing completion, it is time to finish the style descriptions for the user account sections and b... 0 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 22: Account Pages
When we think of online stores, we natural think first of the home page, product category page, and product detail pages. But e... 0 Comments | Read More »
Excerpt: Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook, Chapter 10 Create a Wholesale Store
William Rice's Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook from Packt Publishing describes in detail how to implement a number of merc... 0 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 21: Details, Details, Details
Theme development requires a lot of attention to detail, including being careful to address just about every style or state tha... 7 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 20: Facebook's 'Like' Button
Facebook has more than 400 million users who collectively spend the equivalent of 950,662 years on the social networking site e... 10 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 19: Smooth Sliding Tabs
JavaScript is an excellent way to improve site interaction and behavior. In this episode, I will use simple JavaScript to add a... 5 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 18: CSS for the Product Detail Page
A retail site's product-detail page is often the last thing a shopper sees before making a buying decision. So it is vital to e... 4 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 17: The Category Page Grid
The product grid on a category page displays similar products and is almost always one of the sections a shopper will interact ... 3 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 16: Category Page Image and Font
Product category pages are often one of the most important landing pages on an ecommerce site. They attract search engines and ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 13: Turning the Page
The Pine Theme home page has come a long way since this series started. So much so that it is now nearly complete with a conten... 9 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 12: The Search Form
Search is an important aspect of good site navigation. In fact, I would argue that site search is the most important means of s... 11 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Eleven: The Footer
Developing a Magento theme requires a lot of attention to detail. In this episode, I am going to pay some attention to the foot... 0 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Ten: The Home Page Home Stretch
The home page matters. Thanks to search engines, just about any page of an ecommerce website can be a landing page. But no mat... 6 Comments | Read More »
Magento Prepares for Growth, SaaS?
Magento, the popular open source ecommerce platform, has seemingly retooled for growth with a fresh equity investment, a new co... 1 Comment | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Eight: The Boring Middle
Starting a project is fun, exciting, and even invigorating. Ending projects provides a sense of completion and satisfaction at ... 1 Comment | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Seven: More Rounded Corners
By February 2010, more than 30,000 online merchants were using the Magento platform. By some estimates, those merchants had man... 3 Comments | Read More »
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Six: Product Navigation and CSS Rounded Corners
Magento is an extremely flexible ecommerce platform that provides excellent features in a way that is easy to manipulate and st... 13 Comments | Read More »
Magento Enterprise 1.7 Facilitates Customer Loyalty Programs
Customer-loyalty-rewards programs have long been in existence among brick-and-mortar retailers, credit card companies and consu... 2 Comments | Read More »
