Magento Themes & Templates » design http://www.osetemplates.com Magento Themes & Magento Template Developers! Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:40:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Magento Blank Starter Design Template (Theme) http://www.osetemplates.com/11/magento-blank-starter-design-template-theme/ http://www.osetemplates.com/11/magento-blank-starter-design-template-theme/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:18:47 +0000 Martijn http://www.osetemplates.com/?p=78 Here’s a great blank Magento starter template to get you going on creating your own custom Magento design.

The CSS, Layout and Template files are stripped to the core and perfect for developing your own custom Magento template (theme).

This is a great theme to use for wire-framing or as a base for developing a custom Magento theme! A lot of work has gone in to slimming down the HTML and CSS, which makes it much easier to work with compared to the default theme.

How To Use

  • Unzip the downloaded archive (download below).
  • Copy extracted files in to your store directory structure.
  • Navigate to the Magento admin panel (ie.www.mydomain.com/admin), then the Design configuration tab (System » Configuration » Design tab).
  • Select the name of your website from the (Current Configuration Scope) dropdown.
  • In Default (under Themes heading), enter blank and click save config.
  • Remember to disable page caching (System » Cache Management) whilst testing!
  • Have fun!

Futher installation instructions are available on the Magento website.
Download: Magento Blank Theme (866KB)

]]> http://www.osetemplates.com/11/magento-blank-starter-design-template-theme/feed/ 3 How to enable custom Magento Templates & Themes http://www.osetemplates.com/11/how-to-enable-custom-magento-templates-themes/ http://www.osetemplates.com/11/how-to-enable-custom-magento-templates-themes/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:13:59 +0000 Martijn http://www.osetemplates.com/?p=74 Magento templates are split in to two areas:

  • 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.

You’ll notice the structure in our template .zip files is:

  • /app/design/frontend/default/template_name
  • /skin/frontend/default/template_name

To use our Magento Templates you simply need to do the following:

  • Unzip the downloaded archive. (WinRar required)
  • Copy extracted files in to your store directory structure.
  • Navigate to the Magento admin panel (ie.www.mydomain.com/admin), then the Design configuration tab (System » Configuration » Design tab).
  • Select the name of your website from the (Current Configuration Scope) dropdown.
  • In Default (under Themes heading), enter template_name and click save config.
  • Remember to disable page caching (System » Cache Management) whilst testing!

If you have any questions or problems enabling your Magento templates & themes, please post in the comments and we’ll do our best to help.

Alternatively if you require an indepth knowledge please see the Magento Designer’s Guide.

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