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An enormous thanks to you Roy and the rest of the Varien team.

I’ve been dying to see this documentation and develop an ordered understanding of the template system.

There goes my holidays. 

Thanks Travis. All credit goes to Minu - she’s done a phenomenal job.

I’m trying to suscribe to RSS but I can’t, it don’t work.

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Ubicación: http://feeds.feedburner.com/magento
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Woah, nice!  Do you plan on having a downloadable / printable version as well?

Thanks!

Looks to be a very helpful resource, thank you!  Having good documentation really does ease the learning curve.

Seasons greetings to the Magento/Varien team.

Thanks for the guide.

@Kres - RSS is fixed

@Brady - We’ll add a printable friendly stylesheet.

Thank you RoyRubin

Hi Roy and Minu

The documentation describes how custom designs can be applied to the category or even product level. Im having some difficulty in finding how its applied in the documentation.

Any pointers?

Thanks for your guide Minu,
it offers a good and concise introduction to the fundamentals of Magento’s design !

Hi warren,

Magento takes care of applying layout updates on category and product view pages. The layout updates can be defined in your layout files under your theme, they should be enclosed in <CATEGORY_999>...</CATEGORY_999> or < PRODUCT_999>...</PRODUCT_999> handles, where 999 has to be replaced with the category or product id accordingly.

Category and product layout updates can also be added when editing a product or category in the admin, you just have to put xml into the corresponding fields.

Please let us know if it helps.

Thank you,
Michael.

Hi!
Thank you for this guide… I am taking my time because I have to learn CSS too ... I am a bad used designer :(

I want to ask a question about the first excercise on this guide:
It says:
“# Now open page.xml and search for ‘as="right"’.
# When you find ‘as="right"’, you’ve correctly located the structural block for the right column. You will also see that that structural block also has ‘name="right”’ assigned to it. Now you know that its content blocks would refer to this block by <reference name="right">."
...
I did not finde any “right” at page.xml!! I am driving crazy with designing :(

Thank you for help

* asfaltagmail

You’re right, the right column is in fact missing page.xml. This exercise will be updated to reflect the correct setp. Thank you for pointing this out!

Superb documentation Minu. Thanks.

Thank you for this guide, very usefull !

Brilliant overviews, webinars, tutorials, screecasts and documentation. As a designer, it is refreshing to see such clarity and forethought put into an app without losing (and actually gaining) functionality.