Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Installing widget with Magento

Installing widget with Magento

Magento template, the new and popular template of online ecommerce has become one of the best template to use as the core of the website. It has all the necessary features to run as a professional web store that has every information that web owner need to publish in order to deliver the information and image to customers. With years of development, Magento has become a strong tool to use for any web owner, who does not have much time to learn about HTML coding or who wants to use the simple web management tool.

The Magento template now accepts users to install any custom themes. They can buy various themes from various source, then use it on their Magento template with just a few steps of installation. The process of install the theme is quite easy, which only consists of upload the files to the host.

Furthermore, Magento template also allows users to install widgets to make it more easy to use. When it comes to installing widget for the Magento template, the first thing is to look for the needed widget. There are several places that web owners can grab the Magento widgets, which improve the performance of their website. The widget can be installed directly with the Magento Connect version 2.0, however, in order to use the widget, the version of Magento must be at least 1.4, which is a popular version for Magento. In case if you do not have this version, simply download the new developer kit from Magento and replace it with the existing.

Similarly, installing the Magento widget is somehow just like installing the extensions. The steps are the same, except for the content. To install the widget, simply navigate the Magento Admin Area->System->Magento Connect->Magento Connect Manager, then continue to look for the Paste Extension key to install. In this part, just click on the Install button after logging in and you are done. The next step to do is to go to Magento Admin Area and choose CMS -> Pages to make the changes visible.

Now, in the web editor, select the Content menu and Insert Widget to insert the installed widget wherever you want.

So, the steps above are quite easy that everyone and do in order to install the Magento Widget. Mostly it only involves in CMS page, where the controls of the Magento are stored. You can always install multiple widgets on the same page, however, you should consider about how your website will look like. Too many widgets is not always a good idea.

In sum, I really hope this article has shown you the method of installing the Widget. Although it is quite easy to use, just in case if you have any problem, just scroll back and do these steps again. The Magento Template is easy to control, much easier than the hold HTML coding.

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

How to manage and import product using the Magento template

How to manage and import product using the Magento template

The old website interface has become obsoleted nowadays, as people are looking forward to use the new, innovative Magento Theme in order to create an attracting website with lots of features. Moreover, the new template also has almost every feature included that a normal person can learn to manage easily. The old website interface costs time to learn to manage, but with Magento, it only costs some hours to get used to edit and manage.

Magento is a new template which is created as a project of Open Source, which means the template itself is free to use with no certain copyright. In order to use the Magento template, web owner just has to download the developer kit and upload it to the root folder of the website. After that, they can use the editor tools to edit the content and context of the website. Once all the steps are finished, they just publish their website and they have everything ready.

Although the Magento is easy to use, it does not have good themes to at the beginning. In other words, it only comes with a basic theme, which is quite boring. Usually, web owners often pay some money to have a premium theme, which customized based on the default Magento theme to use for their website. After they have completed the purchase, they just need to edit some copyright or images in the themes to make it theirs and they are done.

Basically, the Magento themes that they bought will have all the features of a basic Magento template, with some graphics to improve the visual of the website. At this point, they may want to learn about how to manage and import product to the website.

To manage the product of the Magento web store, simply navigate to the Catalog, Manage Products option. In here, click on the “Add Product” context. At this point, a small menu will appear, letting web owner to specify further details about the products, such as the name, the attributes and more.

Here are the list of the products types and descriptions to consider:

- Simple Products which have only basic descriptions
- Grouped Products they have similar specifications
- Virtual Products to specify the products which have not appeared yet
- Bundle Products for people to think about Bulk Order.

In each kind of product, there will be an option in the General Tab, letting web owner to manually add information about the Product name, Description, Short Description and much more. The SKU option may become handy since it will let web owner to manage the product in the easiest way possible, by checking the SKU number for any product.

In the image and inventory tab, web owner can always add lots of information about which to be displayed here. They can specify the amount of items in the Inventory tab, or they can also add more images in the Images tab.

Overall, the Magento Template is quite easy to manage. All the menus with contents can be modified to make a more specific web store to manage.

Monday, 2 July 2012

How to setup a simple Magento website using Emthemes themes

How to setup a simple Magento website using Emthemes themes

The Magento template is becoming popular in the market nowadays. Being known as an ultimate solution when it comes to web template, it has become a good choice for shop owners who do not have much experience in managing a website with HTML coding. Basically, the Magento template has all the new features and, is quite easy to use. Generally, it does not take much time to get used to the context and functions of the Magento template. Once the web owners have learned the basic concepts, they can easily manage and create their own a website with all the latest features.

In order to setup a Magento website, web owners just have to download the installation kit and then deploy it on the website from the parent directory of the host folder. After that, just follow the on-screen instruction and they have completed setting up a basic web store with all the features. Now, the next step is that they have to prepare the theme to make sure that their theme will be high in visual, eye-catchy and does not look like any other website. To do so, they can use all the options from the main category to edit and tweak the theme.

For ease, web owners can take advantage of the pre-built themes, such as themes from Emthemes, one of the most popular websites when it comes to buying online themes for Magento template. With that theme, they can manually install it and then edit to add more information. In order to install a theme from Emthemes, just follow these steps below:

First, un-zip the downloaded files to see all the content. Usually, they will have some folders such as layout, templates, skins and others.
After getting all the folders, the next step is to copy and replace them with the existed ones on the Magento website:

1.Layout – Present in (app/design/frontend/your_interface/new_theme/layout/)

2.Templates – Present in (app/design/frontend/your_interface/new_theme/template/)

3.Skins – Present in (skin/frontend/your_interface/new_theme/)

4.Locale – Present in (app/design/frontend/your_interface/new_theme/locale/)

Web owners can also use the APP folder, which is located in Your_Magento_Installation/app/design/frontend/default/ to replace with the downloaded content.

At this point, web owners have finished the installation step of the new theme. The next step is that they just need to edit and make the website more visual by adding more content, more graphic in it. Moreover, they will also need to edit the context menu, based on their demand to create a website will the content they wanted.

In sum, the steps to install the new theme with Magento Template is quite easy in comparison with the WordPress. Somehow, this method is more intuitive to do, which is suitable for those who have not tried this before. With all that features, the Magento template is surely the best solution for ecommerce.

Sunday, 1 July 2012

How to change the Logo and Copyright for any Magento theme

How to change the Logo and Copyright for any Magento theme

Nowadays, with the development with the Open Source, there are lots of solutions for those who are going to open a website for ecommerce. In other words, there are various templates for them to choose, which are free to use. What they need is just an attracting theme with some certain knowledge of web design, with that, they can easily create and manage a website based on the template of Magneto.
Basically, Magneto is free to use for everybody. They just have to download the developer pack and upload to the host directory of their website. After this step, they have finished creating the very basic of the Magneto website. From this step, they will need to specify lots of information to make the website customized and easy to manage. The administrative tools of Magneto template are quite easy to use, as there are just some simple functions to follow. Otherwise, they can follow the instruction on the net to create their own website with ease.
There are some stores online that supply the Magneto themes for everybody to buy and use on their own. After the purchase, they will have the copyright to use in any situation. In other words, they can now design and create their own website with the purchased theme. The template of Magneto has made it easy to install and mange, so that what web owners have to do is just simply upload the content of the theme to the directory and they are done. From now on, when they need to edit something, they just need to open the website editor tool and edit the content directly. After that, just publish for the changes to be applied.
But, how to change the logo of the website?
After upload and let the website to work, you will have a working website with a default template and logo. The next step to do is to replace this logo with your logo, the one for your company. To do it, simply following the steps below:

First, you should prepare the logo in PNG format, which is likely to be the most popular format for logo.

Second, upload the logo to the folder of the logo file, usually the “images” folder.

Third, check the Header section in the web editor and change the “Logo Image Scr” line to the link of your uploaded logo.
That’s all, now you can experience the new look on your website. Remember to check the resolution of the logo to make sure that it fits in the space perfectly. Sometimes, you may have to lower the resolution to save the bandwidth. The “Store View” setting will help you to have an overall look of the website you have created.
You can repeat this step to change all the content of the theme to meet your demand of your own website. This simple step can be applied to change the banner or the content of some certain parts of the website. You can also use it to change the Sections menu and much more.

In sum, the Magneto theme has all the new features for a successful website. Learning to use all the features is not so hard as everyone can learn and make it on their own.

Friday, 15 June 2012

EM Possimus - Sport Shoes Magento Theme

With all the essential elements of an online sales web, EM Possimus - Sport Shoes Magento Theme is a perfect design. That right! EM Possimus is not only impressive in style but also in layout and creativity.

You can easily see that EM Possimus - Sport Shoes Shop Magento Theme mainly use the product sliders. With these sliders, the home page of EM Possimus is very neat and these create a clean space for your store. However, your clients are still very happy when they can see more products, especially when the sliders display products by the hot topics (New Arrivals, Bestseller, most viewed, most popular). Customers can also know the product details at the quick shop button . With this support, the shopping would be convenient and gentle.

Besides, there are many other extensions, including the customer supports as cloudzoom, ajaxcart, dropdown shoppingcart ... , the management supports and the store decorating such as image slideshow, megamenu, .... or extensions to promote your business and close the gap with the customers tastes, as EM blog helps you create the information blog and you can exchange news with customers. And the most interesting thing is the five sub-themes with five separate colors and the impressive styles (Turquoise, Green, Brown, Orange, Purple). You'll be spoiled for choice and install the most appropriate theme for your products. Because of the utility, the compact structure, the beautiful design, the diversity styles, so EM Possimus is not only conform to the fashion shoes that it can fit all the other products.
You can view detail here or check out demo here.

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

EM TopGear - AutoParts Magento Theme

Continue to provide high quality products, we introduce the latest Magento Template - EM TopGear Magento Theme.



EM TopGear Magento Theme is a special topic with the unique design and the great functionalities. Indeed, you can easily be attracted to the design of EM TopGear. The combination of colors is very harmonious, the lay out is very nice and interesting. With four sub-themes of EM TopGear Magento Theme (Red style, blue style, orange style, yellow style) you get more experience and you can choose the style that is best suits for your products. Although this subject has the same structure but they have style with the different feeling. The differences of these styles are evident in the emphasis of the design, this is the buttons, the smart labels, the product price, and many images with the impressive color, therefore EM TopGear becomes more appealing and attractive.



A special thing of EM TopGear Magento Theme is in the arrangement. The products are shown very much on display through the static blocks, the tabs, the product slider. These product blocks are alternated with the ad banners, the images with over 20 transitions, so your store is not boring and it will attract more customers. Besides that, the important information such as the new products, the best seller products, the most popular product, the feature products will be fully updated at the home page of Magento template. This information will improve the shopping of your customers, and they will feel happy with the support functions such as quick shop, ajax add to cart, cloud zoom javascript effect, mega menu with many multiple columns styles.. , these functions are developed by our professional programmerst, they will shorten the distance of the customer with your products, especially with the EM Blog features you'll have an blog of yourself. Sure, these are what you want, so check it out and pick EM Top Gear Magento Theme for your online shop, it is not only suitable for mechanical products, car parts, but also the other products.
EM TopGear Magento Theme is very proud because the design and structure are professional. The convenience of you is perfect. in particular, you can customize the number of products on a row of any layout for catalog page.
You can view detail here or check out demo here.

Saturday, 21 April 2012

EM Ultraze - Laptop Magento Theme

Add a perfect design and unique for your online store, which is EM Ultraze Magento Theme - Laptop Magento template is the best theme that you've ever seen.

With the expertise of the developers and the creativity of designers, EM Ultraze Magento Theme has full conditions of a perfect sales page. The advertising information, news and images are arranged alternately in the static blocks, so you can give customers a wealth of useful information. In addition, the preferential activity, the discount products, the hot products, the bestseller products, the featured products of your store are always updated quickly at the home page and the category pages of Magento template.

With Em Ultraze Magento Theme, you can easily see the ingenuity of the design. the product sliders are utilized everywhere, they are integrated in the tabs, so there are many products on display but space of Magento theme is neat and clean. Also, you can bring a lot of information to customers through the image slideshow, ad banners and the smart labels. This information will be attracting customers by impressive colors and nice effects. You and your customers can also easily exchange and contact with each other through EM Blog function. This is really unique and necessary for your online store.

EM Ultraze Magento Theme provides you with 6 sub-themes - 6 unique colors with 6 impressive faces (jade, blue, gray, green, orange, red) you will have more choices and more comprehensive view on this Magento subject. Along with the interesting colors, fancy design, compact structure, friendly interface, EM Ultraze Magento Theme is a perfect combination of Magento with our excellent extensions, including product images with cloud zoom javascript effect, Ajax Add product to Cart, the image slideshow with over 20 effects,... and more.
You can view detail here or check out demo here.