This blog describes how to install new Magento theme on your store’s frontend. You can use Magento Connect to install theme. For installing theme, you need to get the extension key and then use it for the installation through Magento Connect.

We will see how to get extension key by using the Magento theme −

Step 1 − Go to Magento theme page and then click on the Install Now button. You need to register a new account or login with an existing account to get extension key.

Step 2 − Check, I Agree to the Extension license agreement option and click on the Get Extension Key button.

Step 3 − Click the Select Key button and copy the extension key.

Step 4 − Now login to your Magento Admin Panel and go to the System → Magento Connect → Magento Connect Manager option.

Step 5 − Again, it will ask for login, enter your credentials to redirect to Magento Connect Manager window.

Step 6 − Now under Extensions section, paste the Extension Key (that you copied in step 2 and click on Install button. It will display status as “Ready to install” and click on Proceed button to install the language.

Step 7 − It will check for dependencies of packages and display the message as Cache cleaned successfully.

Step 8 − Refresh the page by clicking on the Refresh button and go to an admin dashboard page by clicking on Return to Admin link.

Step 9 − To activate the theme on your store’s frontend, go to System menu and click on the Design option.

Step 10 − To add a new theme, click on the Add Design Change button.

Step 11 − Select the theme from the Custom Design dropdown menu and click the Save button to apply your theme for the store.

Magento – Setup Page Title

Magento allows changing the default title of your website. The following steps describe how to change the title of Magento store.

Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step 2 − Go to the System menu, click on the Configuration option and select the Design option under the General section.

Step 3 − Expand the HTML Head panel and you can edit the title in Default Title field. After done with the settings, click on the Save Config button.

Magento – Setup Page Layout

Layout files are useful in rendering front pages of Magento. Using Magento, it’s easy to change the layout of pages.

This chapter describes how to create page layout in Magento −

Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step 2 − Go to CMS menu and click on the Pages option to list out all the pages of Magento. Select the page which you want to change the layout.

Step 3 − Click on the Preview button to see structure of the page.

Step 4 − To see the layout of the page, click on the 3 columns option under Layout tab. It will open the Page Information section. Click on the Design option. Select the option as per your choice in the Layout field and click the Save Page button to apply the changes.

Step 5 − When you click on the Preview link, it will display the changed layout of the page.

Magento – Setup New Pages

This chapter shows how to create new pages in Magento by using the following steps −

Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step 2 − Go to CMS menu and click on the Pages option.

Step 3 − It will list some of the existing pages as shown in the following screen. If you want to add new page, click on the Add New Page button.

Step 4 − Next, specify the title for the page using Page Title field, enter the page URL identifier using URL Key option. Enable the page using Status dropdown menu and click on the Save and Continue Edit button.

Step 5 − When you save the page, it will go to Content section asking heading for the page using Content Heading field and page content. Click on Save and Continue Edit button to proceed to the next step.

Step 6 − After done with the content section, you can design the page by using Design section which has two sections i.e. Page Layout and Custom Design.

The Page Layout section contains a Layout option which allows select a layout as per your choice and Layout Update XML option inserts the XML code.

The Custom Design section contains fields such as −

Custom Design Fromand Custom Design To are used to set start date and end date for the design change
Custom Themeoption allows to select theme for your page using dropdown menu
Custom Layoutoption allows to select a layout as per your choice
Custom Layout Update XMLoption inserts custom XML code

Step 7 − The Meta Data section contains Keywords field which sets keyword for a page name and the Description field specifies the description the given page. Click the Save Page button to save your page.

Step 8 − Now you can see the page created in the list.

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