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Love this post ! Thanks Bill.

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Thanks a lot for all your helpful posts!

One question to the search bar position change:

Bill007 - 08 February 2008 04:25 AM

Find the code in app/design/frontend/your_interface/your_new_theme/layout/catalogsearch.xml
find the <reference name="header"> this is where we can change the position we do how ever need it to stay in the header as it will then show on every page

<default>
       
        <reference name="header">
            <block type="core/template" name="top.search" as="topSearch" template="catalogsearch/form.mini.phtml"/>
        </reference>
    </default>

I get stuck here. Do I have to change this code or not, since the search box should remain in the header block? 

With the above code as it is, my searchbox doesn´t move down, no matter how I change the css (cache and everything is sorted out).

Thanks!

Bill007 - 21 February 2008 03:13 AM

FAST WAY TO INSTALL MAGENTO

An even quicker way (;) ) instead of downloading from Magento, and then uploading the file via FTP you can use “wget”.

[*]Visit the Magento download page: http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/ and select the TAR.GZ format and click submit.

[*]On the next screen right click on the ‘click here’ to download magento link, and select “Copy Shortcut”

[*]As per bill007 instructions, download PuTTY and connect to your server with your SSH details.

[*]Browse to your public html folder i.e. cd httpdocs/

[*]At the prompt type in ‘wget’ and then space, and then assuming the link is in the clipboard as per instruction above, right click in the PuTTy window to paste the link, and hit ENTER

[*]Follow the rest of bill007 instructions to untar the file etc.

Hi Bill,

- many thanks for all the usefull tips, incuding Mozilla, Web Developer and edit css.

You have showed us above how to change the header BG colors (in reset.css).

body {
background:url(../images/body_bg.gif) repeat-y 50% 0 #496778; <--------CHANGE THE COLOR HERE
color:#2f2f2f;
font:12px/1.55em arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align:center;
}

Now, I try to figure out how to have a white header background, and still maintain the modern theme background for the rest of the page (as set in reset.css).

Is it possible to operate with two background urls (and name it something different than body)? And how do I specify for which area they will apply?

I will be thankful for any advice.

Last EDIT:  After I posted the message above, I have managed to add a image to the header (banner), and define the background color (as a solid color) for the other part of the site. I posted it here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/12231/

What still reminds is how to be able to use the original modern theme background for the rest of the page, instead of using a solid color.

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http://framework.zend.com/docs/screencasts

I’m currently reading up on the Zend Framework, i’m not a professional programmer, just know a little programming and is looking to know more about Magento. I find reading up a little on ZF useful. Cheers.

Great topic.
I want to share this tip on email templates and getting your logo working in the system emails.

One of my websites is using a slightly older version of Magento. I was trying to update the email templates (mostly just the logo/email address and the text) but was having problems finding where to edit the code.

I first tried the ”Add New Template” feature found in Admin under System ->Transactional Emails. I’d read you can use ”Load Template” to create a duplicate of an existing email template and go from there. Anyway this may work in newer versions but it’s certainly not doing it for mine.

So if you’re also using Magento ver. 1.0.19870.4 I’d recommend trying to change the files found in the following folder first:-

I’ve found the post titled Transactional email images problem, discussing how to change the logos skin path particularly helping. For example change:

When overloading a block or other part of the core code watch out for spaces in the config.xml

For Example:  The following code works

This is the biggest gotya that I have found

Regards
John