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!

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!

Magento catalog customization: admin area

Project objective

To customize Magento catalog to have additional filters while browsing products

Description

Magento backoffice provides its owner with the broad range of administration tools. They allow getting all the necessary information on how the shop is running and what else should be done to promote it further. But sometimes there are some minor drawbacks in Magento admin that worsen the usability. In those cases the shop should be customized either by its owner or by the professionals.

Seems strange but the default Magento catalog doesn’t provide the possibility to filter the products by the brand (manufacturer) or by category they belong.

It looks something like that:

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Technologies involved

PHP, XML

Solution

The professionals from Oxagile company have created a new design of the catalog page that includes all the filtering options the customer needed. It seems more user friendly now and should be included in the Magento update sometime

Look at the new version just to compare them:

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Magento setting up for Vitamins store

Magento becomes more and more popular among the software solutions for e-commerce business. Our last customer decided to use it for the shop selling vitamins and other stuff that is really helpful in improving our shape (either gaining weight and muscles or loosing weight).

The task of Oxagile team was to apply the design for Magento (done by some other company) and to add some small improvement features to the functionality. Most of the features were rather standard and helped to make the shop a bit more user friendly. For example, Oxagile PHP developer has added a manufacturer filtering combo box to the left navigation menu. As the site sells the products of many different manufactures the common list of them in the left menu may be very long and will disfigure the design concept. With a combo box it’s much more convenient as the potential buyer can easily select the producer on any page and the system will show the products of this particular manufacture.

Magento Modern Theme for Cosmetics Store

Cosmetics is among the products that are widely sold via Internet. Sometimes it even seems that eCommerce was developed directly for the cosmetics industry. Using Magento shopping software it’s so easy to present all that creams, shampoons, deodorants and soaps.

Look at the Magento Modern Theme for Cosmetics Store designed by Oxagile team. Looks cute, doesn’t it?

Magento design for computer shop

Design of e-commerce shop selling computers and computer peripherals has to be hi-tech. Potential buyers must feel the spirit of information technology from a first glance.

Here is the design that was chosen by one of our clients for the main page of the shop.

the e-commerce shop was developed using Mageto open source software solution. So, we also provided our client with the design for the inner pages. He has chosen rather simple and very elegant design for the page listing the products from one category and for the product page.

If you liked the job done than drop us a line or make a call. Oxagile software development company will start creating a unique design for YOUR MAGENTO STORE!

Magento Layout - hi-tech focus

One more Magento design project is successfully finished. this time it was design and installation of Magento shop for an electronics online store. One of the most challenging tasks of this project was the tremendous number of brands and products.

Here are the words that the client said:

Nice work. I’ll recommend your services to anyone! My shop looks different and really professional.

Design for Magento

As Magento e-commerce solution becomes more and more popular thanks to its advantages and huge amount of additional features, more of our customers want the original design of the shop to be changed.

So, our company decided to add a new service to the list of “Magento development services“. From this day Oxagile can become officially responsible for the impression that your store makes the visitors. By the way, this impression is very essential and can influence the bounce rate of your site greatly!