Favicon for Magento e-commerce store

Favicon is a common short name for “favorite icon”. It is a 16×16 image that is displayed alongside with the name of the site. It brings not much functionality except of better recognizability of the site.

Well, it may be a part of site design also. The website that tends to be designed well should possess favicon that complies with the main idea of the site.

And I believe that every online shop should have its own favicon that helps it to position better. Usually it’s not too difficult to create or change your favicon. You just have to enter the root directory on your hosting and place there or replace the file favicon.ico with the one you’ve created.

But when working with Magento-based shop much to your surprise those actions are not enough. Most of the pages of your Magento shop will not be displayed with the favicon that is absolutely inadmissible.

In order to reach the right result you should find and replace all the favicon.ico files. They are situated here:

• Root directory
• root -> downloader
• root -> 404 -> skin -> your_interface_name -> images
• root -> report -> skin -> your_interface_name -> images
• root -> skin -> adminhtml -> your_interface_name -> your_theme_name
• root -> skin -> frontend -> your_interface_name -> your_theme_name (you should replace the file for each theme you use)
• root -> skin -> install -> your_interface_name -> your_theme_name

This is the easiest step while applying desing to your Magento store. But if you need much improvoments, maybe even some custom solutions for better e-commerce results, than you may need a professional help. So, the Oxagile Magento developers are at your service!

Social integration site on Joomla CMS

Today we want to tell about the new opensource customization project in the Oxagile portfolio. This time it was implemented using PHP-based CMS Joomla and MySQL RDBMS for data storage. In order to realize some specific functionality of the system the following modules were added to standard Joomla CMS:

• Virtue mart for eCommerce functionality;
• Joom!Fish (i18n and l10n)
• news module and some other.

Here is the general solution structure of the project:

We wish our client and his project great success, many customers and fast monetization! Thank you for choosing our open source customization team!

Magento design in black

One more design theme is ready thanks to open source customization department of the Oxagile company. This Magento layout will be appreciated by those who believe that “Site font can be of any color if it’s black”.

These screenshots represent one of the variants of the design that we have created for one of our clients – the e-commerce store selling audio equipment. The project included not only design but Magento set-up, design implementation, some admin customization and a set of SEO (search engine optimization) services.

So, if you like this work and want to get you eCommerce store installed by our professional open source customization team – just leave us a short message today!