Posts tagged modern theme

add to the mini-cart left hand box in Magento

Feb 14th

Posted by Andy Bird in magento

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You need to tweak your theme to allow you to post a message in the mini-cart area (the bit that show “You have no items in your shopping cart”)

This is quite simple.
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Magento: Move Related Products to centre column in Modern theme

Aug 27th

Posted by Andy Bird in magento

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The modern theme made available by the good folks at Varian for their free e-commerce product Magento is a great template and a good starting point for anyone looking to customise magento for their own look and feel.  However, the default layout has the Related products block in the left hand menu which unless you have very long product descriptions can leave the page unbalanced.

These instructions will move the block to to the centre under the product descriptions.

You can see this at work here on a <a href=”http://www.cl-floraldesigns.co.uk”>wedding flowers</a> site.
In catalog.xml find

<reference name=“right”>
<block type=“catalog/product_list_related” name=“catalog.product.related” before=“-” template=“catalog/product/list/related.phtml”/>
</reference>

Remove or comment out

<block type=“catalog/product_list_related” name=“catalog.product.related” before=“-” template=“catalog/product/list/related.phtml”/>

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