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:

9MagentoThemes.Com has recently opened our Magento Themes Club, providing at least two new Magento Themes each month to subscribed members. But what do you need to know before you join our Magento Theme Club?

In these technologically advanced times, the internet has provided many a business solutions to individuals. Among them e-commerce is fast becoming a highly sophisticated and developed business. Magento is a new generation PHP based open source e-commerce solution which offers a plethora of benefits. It offers merchants total flexibility and power over the appearance, content, and functionality of their online store.

As you’ve might discovered there’s a bug (or an issue) in Magento when you want to define a Custom Layout Design in a category and all its child elements (sub-categories, etc).

To solve this you can change the default category layout. Please note that this will affect all categories.

1. Open up the catalog.xml file in the layout-folder for your current Magento theme (remember to back it up before you continue)
2. Find the element “catalog_category_default” and add the following code: