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So you started a new Magento webshop and got overwhelmed by lots of features and widgets?
It could be that you would like to remove some widgets and plugins. In order to do that, navigate to: /app/design/frontend/default/default/layout and open local.xml (or create it).
On top, between the <default>…</default> tags place the removal codes:
<remove name=”right.cart_sidebar”/>
<remove name=”right.permanent.callout”/>
<remove name=”left.permanent.callout”/>
<remove name=”left.reports.product.viewed”/>
<remove name=”right.reports.product.viewed”/>
<remove name=”top.search” />
<remove name=”paypal.partner.right.logo”/>
<remove name=”catalog.compare.sidebar”/>
<remove name=”right.reports.product.compared”/>
<remove name=”sale.reorder.sidebar”></remove>
One of the most important pages of your webshop is the checkout page. When people want to checkout, they expect a fast way of checkout. Unfortunately the current checkout of Magento is still a bit annoying, because of the illogical checkout process.
So what should you do? Buy an expensive one step checkout for a starting webshop? No, that’s not necessary. There is a solution that only requires some CSS improvements and changes the process dramtically.
For example take a look on the improved checkout Dutch website Pyjamaonline:
Looks better than the standard, doesn’t it? Want to make such improvements for your own webshop as well? Download it here: http://www.h-o.nl/blog/improved_magento_one_page_checkout_design_css_only/
Also want to know how to remove the unnecessary login step?
Standard the size of Magento product icon pictures are 135 x 135 pixels. For most purposes that size is a bit to small. How to change the size of these picture?
To change the size of the image open your website directory and navigate to: app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product and open list.phtml. Around line 98 you see the following code:
<img src=”<?php echo $this->helper(‘catalog/image’)->init($_product, ‘small_image’)->resize(135); ?>” width=”135″ height=”135″ alt=”<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, ‘small_image’), null, true) ?>” />
Change it to by example 200 x 200:
<img src=”<?php echo $this->helper(‘catalog/image’)->init($_product, ‘small_image’)->resize(200); ?>” width=”200″ height=”200″ alt=”<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, ‘small_image’), null, true) ?>” />
Upload the file to your webdir and refresh the cache. Now you see the images in the greater format.
You can do the same for the images on the product page. Just go to /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/view and open media.phtml. Here you see the same tag with resizing to 265. Change this to your desired format and refresh the cache.
Dev Problems is a new blog on which I share all kind of problems that I come across myself in developing Magento, Laravel and other websites. For example I share tips about plugins, common problems and more.
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