MagenThemes.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.

Several times we have received above question from our customer in order that to day we will show you how to redirect your Magento site from a non-www, ex. http://yoursite.com to http://www.yoursite.com. There is a trick there.

1. Enable Url rewriting (Admin Panel → System → Configuration → Web → Url Options → Use Web Server Rewrites → Yes).
2. Now go to your .htaccess file on your Magento folder, (you might need to back up your .htaccess before making your changes.)

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: