Using new themes in Magento

Using new themes

Your store's layout, terminology, colour scheme, typestyles, and images are controlled by its theme. CreaNng an enNrely new theme for your site is beyond the scope of this book. Covering it will require an enNre book by itself. However, you can easily replace your site's default theme with a theme that someone has built for you. In addiNon to many paid themes, you can find plenty of free themes on the web as well.

The files for your store's theme reside in these two directories:

1.       /app/design/frontend/default/default/—This directory contains the layout, translaNons for the labels and terms, and templates.

2.       /skin/frontend/default/default/—This directory contains images, style sheets, and JavaScript for the blocks.

The last part of those paths, /default, is the name of the theme that comes with Magento, default theme. When you install a new theme, you will place its files under /app/design/ frontend/default and /skin/frontend/default. For example, I downloaded the

free Linen theme from www.magthemes.com, and copied its files into /app/design/ frontend/default/linen and /skin/frontend/default/linen.

When I unzipped the package for the Linen theme, it contained these directories:

◆       /skin/frontend/LinenTheme/default

◆       /app/design/frontend/LinenTheme/default

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