Have you ever wondered how people are showing larger images for products on mouseover or mouse click using lightbox (very popular JavaScript library). Adding Lightbox to your magento theme is not difficult and by adding very little code to your theme you can get the Lightbox functionality easily. Lightbox will give the ability to highlight your products by showing lager image of the product along with brief description. Our approach will be based on default layout, you can change the theme name based on your selection.

This tutorial provides detailed information how to move a Magento store from one host to another (or to a different hosting account).

Step 1 - Create a Database

First, you need to create a new MySQL database for your store. Log in to cPanel by following the instructions given in your Account Information email. Then click on the MySQL® Database Wizard icon. Type in a name for your new database (e.g. mystore) and click Next Step (see Figure 1). Now you need to assign a new user to your database. Type in a username and password then click Next Step. Finally, check the All Privileges checkbox and click Next Step to complete the database wizard.

You can now log out of cPanel and continue with the next step.

Figure 1: Create a New Database

Magento 1.4 Themes Design was written by Richard Carter and published by Packt Publishing. It was published in January of this year (2011). I read the eBook copy, so I have not yet been able to look at the paper copy, but if it is like every other book published by Packt, there’s not much to complain about.

Many developers and store owners don’t like to use images as buttons simply because they do not wish their users to wait until the images load. Image buttons gives the flexibility to display images as per store’s requirement but these days lots and lots of stores are opting to create CSS image buttons rather than image buttons. With a very little tweak you can get rid of image buttons in your theme and switch to CSS buttons. If you are willing to change your image buttons to CSS powered buttons then follow the steps given below:

Joomla templates

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The purchasing process is very simple: choose the template you like, add it to your shopping cart, and check out! zootemplate accept a wide range of payment processors like paypal, moneybokoers, credit cards, etc.

All Joomla Template comes with a live demo preview, so you can test them before you do a purchase

Does your website load as quickly as you — and your users — would like? If not, here’s a detailed set of proven guidelines aimed at improving the speed of your site.

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