Tag Archives: Theming

Creating beautiful looking and neatly coded themes for various web platforms, such as WordPress and Magento.

More tips for styling the WordPress tinyMCE editor

A few weeks ago, I blogged about styl­ing the tinyMCE editor in WordPress to resemble your WordPress theme’s con­tent area. On this post, I received a com­ment from LA, ask­ing if it’s pos­sible to style the tinyMCE editor for spe­cific posts or post tem­plates. Folks, it’s WordPress… anything’s pos­sible! With my mis­sion at hand, I set to work. I’d […]

Theming for Magento — Part 04 — How it all works

Wow, part 4 already? This is where the real fun comes in, folks. Today we’ll be open­ing up some *.phtml and *.xml files, look­ing at what’s going on under the hood and find­ing out how the theme files all tie together. Lets get star­ted, shall we? Before we get to those files… Folks, before we dive into the […]

Theming for Magento — Part 03 — Theming Basics

Right. We’re in part 03 of our “Theming for Magento” tutorial col­lec­tion. Time to get down to some them­ing. A quick word on con­ven­tions Magento, like many other con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems, likes to fol­low con­ven­tions. Adopting these con­ven­tions when design­ing your theme, as well as dur­ing the them­ing pro­cess, can greatly min­im­ize the amount of […]

Theming for Magento — Part 02 — Theme Architecture

OK folks, we’re not going to rush things. Lets take this them­ing for Magento one step at a time. In today’s tutorial, I’ll be dis­cuss­ing the archi­tec­ture of Magento themes, the reason for this archi­tec­ture and a brief intro­duc­tion into a gen­eral idea of what goes where and why. The install­a­tion… lets get it out of the way The Magento […]

Theming for Magento — Part 01

Magento, the pop­u­lar e-​​​​commerce web­site plat­form, has, over the past few years, become a prom­in­ant player in the con­tent man­age­ment mar­ket. Utilising its robust array of fea­tures as well as its stock and sales man­age­ment fas­cil­it­ies, Magento is a great choice for a sys­tem to man­age your online store. When set­ting up your Magento store, the sys­tem comes […]

Obox launches the Obox Theme Store

Well, guys, launch day is here. The Obox Theme Store is online! After weeks of watch­ing Dave, Marc and Nat at Obox work­ing late nights and early morn­ings, week­ends, pub­lic hol­i­days and all other kinds of days ima­gin­able, the launch has happened, the first sale has come and gone and I must say, it’s look­ing AWESOME! […]