Category: Magento

Easy Zoom is jQuery based plugin used in many commercial themes for Magento. It is small but powerful plugin that allows you to zoom product images and present them with more details. Since it is quite popular among our customers we decided to offer support for it with our Color Swatch extension, like we already did for 'Magic Zoom' and 'Cloud Zoom' plugins. Color Swatch offer option to update product main image and 'more view' gallery once swatch is selected,...

One of Magento’s greatest strengths is its possibility to create multi-language store easily. To find out how to setup multi-store and multi-language retailing store we recommend that you check article from official Magento  knowledge base: http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/tutorial-multi-site-multi-domain-setup Thing that we found interesting for our Color Swatch plugin is option to show attribute options according to selected store as swatches. Most obvious example of such requirement would be multi-language store that sells clothes. Our test product will consist two attributes 'color' and 'size' to keep...

As always, we're very interested to see how our Color Swatch Magento Addon is being used by our customers and clients. We've seen some very creative solutions on various Magento Webstores by our Clients, and we're always happy to hear that people love how our Magento Addons and Extensions work, and what they can do with them. Here's an insteresting read by a fellow Magento developer who used our Color Swatch with Zoom Magento Addon on a project and managed...

Advanced Settings 1. To add slide images to your home page slider go to Banner Slider (which should be in the main menu of your Magento’s admin panel) -> Manage Banners. 2. Once the page opens, click on the Add Banner button to add a new banner. To have the banner slide show on your home page, you need at least 2 banners. Recommended image size for banners is 990*460 px. Once you add 2 new banners with a banner...

Installation Instructions 1. Log in to your Magento admin panel and go to System -> Cache Management. Disable Magento cache. 2. Go to System -> Manage Stores. Click to edit your main Store, and hit save. 3. Unpack the FashionStore.zip theme file on your local system and upload it to the root folder of your Magento. 4. Go back to your Magento admin panel, and go to System -> Configuration. 5. Click on the Design option in the General section...

Overview This tutorial will help you to replace magento default ‘Shop by’ section with Color Swatch block. All attribute options that have swatch image assigned will be displayed as swatches and rest will keep default view. To use Color Swatch swatches in ‘Shop by’ section you will need to create several files and edit few of them. You will need access to magento installation, with permission to copy/edit files and create folders. Before you edit or overwrite any file please...

Magento Connect offers a lot of free and paid Magento extensions and add-ons, and you can download and install them trough your Magento Connect system but : What if you'd like to take a look at the extension code before you decide to install it? Here are few useful tips and links for you: There's a very useful explanation on how Magento Connect 2.0 system archives and stores the Magento Add-ons on stackoverflow which basically explains how Magento Add-ons are...

Configuration Options for SMDZoom extension Main Image Size In SMDesign Zoom configuration options, you can set the size ( image width , image height ) for your main image on product details page. And your main image will be resized to those dimensions. More View Images Size and Behaviour You can also control how more views images are handled on the product details page. Upload some additional images to your product first. Then go back to the SMDesign Zoom settings...

Create a simple product to test the zoom extension Go to Catalog > Manage Products page and hit the Add Product button in the upper right part of the page. On the next page select default attribute set and simple product for product type. On the next page fill out the required fields according to the type of product you need to create. Make sure that you upload the main image of the product, and that you thick the radio...

Overview This tutorial document describes how to install and use SMDesign's Zoom extension for Magento. It can be used as a step by step guide for installing and configuring the extension on your magento website. Installation The installation process consists of extracting the extension files on your local computer or server and copying them to the correct path of your magento system structure. In most cases we will send you the extension files in a .zip archive, you'll have to...