Using Cufon in Magento
Cufon is a way (among several other) to add more or less any font as a fully usable font directly on your website – of course including Magento. Here we’ll show you how to do that in just a few steps. Find your font. A good resource of free fonts is www.dafont.com, however make sure the font you are about to use has an EULA that fits your needs. Go to the Cufon site and follow the instructions on how to upload your font and get the generated font.js file. Also download the cufon-yui.js … Full Story
Free Magento theme
Today Silverthemes.com released a 100% free Magento theme over at SmashingMagazine.com. The theme, a grungy really SM-styled theme, got a lot of positive feedback from the community right after release. Be sure to check out the free Magento theme. Full Story
Best Magento theme so far?
Silverthemes has released the Magento Brage theme a few weeks ago, with a huge success. Already almost 100 stores have purchased the theme and either used it as-is or customized it to fit a particular design. The Brage theme also come in six different color schemes, which can be selected directly from the Magento Admin without having to touch any code whatsoever. Below are some screenshots of the theme. Full Story
Silverthemes releases new Magento theme
Silverthemes.com, a Premium Magento Themes company, yesterday released their latest Magento ClearBlue theme. ClearBlue is focused on a clear blue line going through the whole theme. The design is made for easy customization of both colors and the overall style. The ClearBlue theme is bundled with: - Vertical Category menu (Walmart style) - MagicZoom Plus product-image magnifier - SimpleBoard magento widget These popular Magento addons are sold at almost $200 when purchased separately. The theme supports both 3-, 4- and 5-column category-pages – as well as the standard 1-column-, 2-column, (left+right)- and 3-column layout of the store. The … Full Story
Top 3 Great Magento Themes
We’ve seen lots of magento themes coming up since the very first official release of Magento in early 2008. Some of these themes are really great, while most of them really lacks the premium content needed for a professional store. Now and then we pick the best Magento themes around. In this first post we’ve picked three great themes from Silverthemes.com, one of the “seniors” in this market. 1. Magento Tubetheme The TubeTheme by Silverthemes is really a great theme. The design is very clean, inspired by YouTube. The functionality includes both 3-, 4- … Full Story
Display best selling product in magento
Want to display the best selling products in your Magento store on the frontpage or anywhere else in your store? The best selling products means the products sold in highest quantity in Ascending order. This functionality is for some strange reason not included in Magento by default so we’ll explain how you can set it up yourself. Full Story
WordPress and Magento
With the latest release of Magento 1.3, there really is no escaping the fact that Magento is the number one software for your eCommerce site. With it’s flexibility and scalability there is very little you can’t get Magento to do in an eCommerce environment. Granted, the CMS options could be and perhaps should be a bit more flexible compared to the rest, but they do the trick. There only one thing Magento can’t do and that is blog. Where Magento is becoming the dominant software for eCommerce websites, is WordPress already the most popular … Full Story
Add Highslide to Magento
Love Highslide? So do we. We’ve even written a manual on how to install and use Highslide in Magento. We’ve used it on the Product-pages to display product-images but it can easily be extended to display images in your CMS-pages, frontpage, etc. Ok, lock the door and watch closely. Step 1: Download the latest version of Highslide Click here to go to the Highslide.com-site and download the latest (stable) version to your local computer. Step 2: Transfer Highslide to your Magento-installation Unzip the Highslide and transfer the files to your Magento skin-folder, for example: … Full Story