[...]... a look at what Magento is and what Magento can do • Discover the differences between Magento 1.3 and Magento 1.4 • See the default themes that come installed with Magento 1.4 • Look at a showcase of custom Magento themes from real websites • Find out the particular challenges in customizing Magento themes • Install and configure Magento 1.4 ready for theming As you will come to see, Magento is quite... Edition, but this book concentrates on Magento Community Edition and everything in this book can be applied to all editions of Magento Differences between Magento 1.3 and Magento 1.4 themes There are some fairly major changes between Magento 1.3 and Magento 1.4 Magento 1.4 fixes some known bugs and adds new features, some of which had to be added as separate modules in Magento 1.3, including the use of... Introduction to Magento As such, porting a Magento 1.3 theme to Magento 1.4 is likely to be a very tedious task, and you may well be better off starting the theme from scratch Default Magento 1.4 themes By default, Magento comes with three different themes: • Default • Modern • Blue You can easily preview these themes on the Magento demonstration site at http://demo.magentocommerce.com, and by selecting... in Magento, or just those who are new to Magento 1.4 Chapter 2, Exploring Magento Themes, introduces theming in the context of Magento and covers terminology used within the Magento project that relates to Magento in a wider context—from interfaces to packages—and more specifically, theme terminology, from skins to layouts, and template files Chapter 3, Magento Theme Basics, covers the basics of Magento. .. version 1.4 of Magento Community Edition or the equivalent version of the Enterprise or Professional editions A familiarity with CSS and (X)HTML is recommended, and knowledge of PHP is beneficial Who this book is for This book is aimed at web designers and web developers who are not familiar with Magento at all and to Magento designers and developers who are more familiar with Magento 1.3 than Magento 1.4. .. Adding a new block to your Magento theme Creating a static block in Magento' s CMS Customizing your Magento store's labels with translate.csv Adding a custom block to Magento CMS pages Summary Chapter 8: Magento E-mail Templates Transactional e-mail templates in Magento Customizing Magento newsletter templates Integrating external HTML newsletter systems with Magento Making Magento e-mail templates ready... MySpace Magento Social Bookmarking Services extension Chapter 10: Magento Print Style Magento Default theme's print styling Using Magento layout to include a print stylesheet Creating a custom print stylesheet for your Magento theme Print style for content blocks in Magento Print style for typography in Magento [v] 243 244 252 252 255 255 260 261 261 265 Table of Contents Print style for links in Magento. .. into your Magento store Integrating Twitter through Magento extensions Integrating Facebook with Magento Adding a 'Like' button to your Magento store's product pages 236 241 242 Integrating the Facebook 'Like box' widget in your Magento store Integrating Facebook with Magento extensions Further social media integration with Magento Social bookmarking in Magento 247 251 252 252 Logging in with a social... into your Magento theme: Lightbox-style effects to Magento' s product page Adding a JavaScript file using Magento layout Editing the product template file to include Lightbox Changing image paths in the JavaScript file Lightbox extensions for Magento 1.4 Adding a conditional stylesheet for Internet Explorer in Magento Creating a new stylesheet for a previous Internet Explorer version Using Magento layout... register an account view Navigation in Magento Magento's product view Customizing the product view template Disabling Magento reviews through the CMS Customizing the product view layout Summary Chapter 7: Customizing Advanced Magento Layout Magento error messages and views Customizing Magento' s 404—not found view The no JavaScript error message Styling the default message in Magento (.note-msg) Styling your . Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Magento 7 What is Magento? 8 Magento& apos;s features 9 Differences between Magento 1. 3 and Magento 1. 4 themes 9 Default Magento 1. 4 themes 10 Magento Default. ii ] Magento themes 43 Base theme 44 Default themes 44 Non-default themes 45 Blocks in Magento 46 Content blocks 46 Structural blocks 47 What makes a Magento theme? 47 Unique aspects of a Magento. Magento 1. 4 Themes Design Customize the appearance of your Magento 1. 4 e-commerce store with Magento& apos;s powerful theming engine Richard Carter BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Magento 1. 4 Themes Design Copyright