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  • Color Swatch Tutorial – Color Swatches on Product Page

    Color Swatch on Product Page Once you open the product page on the public side of the website, it should look like this: If you uploaded additional images to simple products that represent attribute options/values, once you click each of the swatches, you should see updated images on the page. You can also click on more view images to update the main image.
    July 6th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch Tutorial – Creating Configurable Product

    Creating Configurable Product   Go to Catalog (1) >> Manage Products (2) and then click on the Add Product button (3). From the Attribute Set dropdown, select the attribute set you've just created (1) and from the Product Type dropdown, select Configurable product (2) and click the Continue button. If everything was set correctly when creating attributes and attribute set, you should have the attribute you wanted available on this page. Check the checkmark (1) next to attribute name, and...
    July 5th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch Tutorial – Creating Attribute Set

    Creating Attribute Set   Go to Catalog (1) >> Manage Attribute Sets (2) then click the Add New Set button (3). Enter the name of the new attribute set (1) and save the new attribute set. Drag and drop (1) the attributes you want to assign to the new attribute set from the Unassigned Attributes section. Once you've done that, save the attribute set.
    July 4th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch Tutorial – Assigning Swatch Images

    Assigning Swatch Images to Attribute Options You can perform this step right after creating attribute options/values, or after you've created the configurable product. Go to Catalog (1) >> SMD ColorSwatch (2) to access the "Swatches" page. You should be able to see all the options/values for each of the attributes that have them. Next to the name of each option/value, you'll see a browse button (1) and a title label (2). Click browse button (1) to upload swatch image for...
    July 3rd, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch Tutorial – Creating Attribute

    Creating Attribute   Go to Catalog (1) >> Manage Attributes (2) page, then click on the Add New Attribute (3) button. Once on the New Product Attribute page, enter the code for your attribute (2), set the Catalog Input Type for Store Owner to Dropdown (3), set Apply To : All Product Types (4) ( alternatively you can set the Apply To option to Configurable product ) and set the Use to Create Configurable to Yes (5). Once you've entered...
    July 2nd, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch Tutorial – Overview & Installation

    Overview This tutorial document describes the basic requirements of Magento Color Swatch extension and offers a step by step guide for installing and configuring the Magento Color Swatch extension on a Magento website. Step by step guide covers the process of creating a configurable product in Magento administration and configuring the Magneto Color Swatch extension options needed for extension to enhance the configurable product in question. Requirements Magento Color Swatch extension is encoded via ionCube ( http://www.ioncube.com/ ). In order...
    July 1st, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • E-mall Twitter v2.0.0

    Twitter company recently changed policy and introduced stricter guidelines about how the Twitter API should be used. Therefore we decided to update our Emall Twitter extension and offer to all our customers plug-in that will support all features that new API provide. Major change from previous version is additional data that is required beside twitter username. Twitter extension now requires ‘Twitter widget ID’ which can be obtained in user widgets section. Login at www.twitter.com with your username and password, than...
    June 26th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Extensions Mall customer support

    We would like to announce that our customer support service is extended to ‘live chat’ option on our site www.extensionsmall.com, based on Zopim chat client. After test phase, last two months, we decided to include this type of customer’s service as regular option. It is available during office work time, from 8am to 8pm and we are looking forward to extend it to full 24hour service. Current system allows you to leave messages even when our operators are offline and...
    June 10th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Extensions mall news

    First of all we want to apologize to all our customers that had issues to access our sites in last few days. Recent events speed up our decision to change hosting company and move all our sites to new servers. We are proud to announce that transfer is successfully done and now all our sites are back online faster and better than ever. As small token of gratitude we are offering two weeks limited promo code for all our extensions...
    May 16th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch with Ultimento theme

    Ultimento is one of the most advanced and sophisticated Magento theme available on market. It is packed with features and offers all around solid for a kick-start on Magento platform. The theme is very fast and very easy with nice responsive design. Customization is available on all levels and allows various changes to be done easily. From basic layout editing up to doing complex things all is done without any issues. Adding new extensions is also easy and in most...
    April 26th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.