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As we have just noted, this article is going to be more practical. We are going to see some basic things that will help us modify the appearance of our site, from looking for free templates to the process of installing them and making some tiny changes.
I am sure this article helps us establish a good foundation though most of the things we are going to see are quite simple, so this is going to be a good introduction.
We are going to see two ways in which we can install a new Magento theme. The first one is through Magento Connect. This involves a number of steps that we are going to follow along this recipe.
First we need to go to Magento Connect: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magentoconnect.
There, search for the theme Magento Classic Theme Free, or, alternatively, load this link:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/TemplatesMaster/extension/928/magento-classic-theme.
This theme, the Magento Classic Theme, is the one we are going to use through this article. Follow these steps to install it:
For the next steps we need to go to our Magento installation Admin area screen. There, carry out the following instructions:
We have just selected a theme from the Magento site, and installed it into our own Magento installation through the Magento Connect Manager. We can do this as many times as we want, and install as many themes as we need to.
In this recipe we are going to see another method of installing themes into our Magento installation. This time we are going to see how to install a theme manually. Why is this important? Just because we may want to use themes that are not available through Magento Connect, as they can be themes purchased in other places, or downloaded from free themes.
In order to follow this method we need a downloaded theme. You can get the Magento Classic theme from this link:
http://blog.templates-master.com/free-magento-classic-theme/
Once done, we will get a file called f002.classic_1.zip; just unzip it. Inside we will find many folders:
Though our Magento version is not 1.4.1.0, we could use the theme without problems. What can we find inside that folder? Another two folders:
This is the folder structure we should expect from a Magento theme.
Installing a theme is as easy as copying those two folders into our Magento installation, with all their sub folders and files. In our Magento installation you will see another app and skin folder, so the contents in the folder of the downloaded theme will combine with the already existing ones. No overwriting should occur. And that’s all; we don’t need to do anything else.
Good, now we have installed one theme, one way or the other. So, how do we enable this theme? In fact it’s quite easy; we can achieve just that from our site admin panel.
If you haven’t logged into your Magento installation, do it now.
Well, once we are inside the admin panel of our site, we need to carry out the following steps to select our new theme:
We are done. We have just selected the new theme. As promised it was quite easy, wasn’t it? Try it yourself!
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