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Magento is an Open Source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework . Magento is available under the Open Software License version 3.0. Since version 1.1.7 some parts are licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. Magento Enterprise Edition, a paid for version of Magento aimed at larger companies, was launched on April 15, 2009. General Feature List: Site Management Mobile Commerce Marketing Promotions and Tools International Support Search Engine Optimization Checkout Shipping Payment Order Management Customer Service Customer Accounts Catalog Management Catalog Browsing Product Browsing Analytics and Reporting Customer Reviews Cross-Selling Customer Tags Compare Products Wishlists Google Base Integration Google Website Optimizer Integration History: Varien, the company that owns Magento, formerly worked with osCommerce, touting themselves as the US leaders in osCommerce. They origin...

I have been playing with this for my shop home page. The following works ok for me: in the CMS, modify the homepage, setting the content to: div class= "product-info-box" > div class= "product-essential" > {{block type = "catalog/product_view" product_id = "21" template = "catalog/product/home.phtml" }} div class= "product-img-box" > {{block type = "catalog/product_view_media" product_id = "21" template = "catalog/product/view/home-media.phtml" }} div > div class= "product-shop" > h1 > Home Page h1 > div class= "collateral-box" > div class= "head" > h4 > Work in Progress h4 > div > {{block type = "catalog/product_view" product_id = "21" template = "catalog/product/view/home-description.phtml" }} div > div > di...

step-by-step: 1. Create the attribute switcher 2. Create the cms blocks 3. Modifiy the view.phtml 1. Create the attribute switcher Admin - Catalog - Attributes - Manage Attributes - Add New Attribute Attribute Code: info01 Scope: Global (or what you want) Catalog Input Type for Store Owner: Yes/No following lines as default .... .... .... .... Visible on Product View Page on Front-end: No ... ... Click left site - Manage Label Option Admin Info 01 SAVE Attribute Repeat the Add New Attribute with info02, info03, info04 .... so much cms blocks you will have. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now the atrributes becomes a homeland where do you can use this. Every Product have a Attribute Set. Standard = Default. So i.e. we put the new Attributes in the default Set. Admin - Catalog - Attributes - Manage Attributes sets - select Default. On the right site you will see the new attributes. Click on the first and hold the mouse switch, mov...

By using static blocks you are able to create content for category pages, allowing you to showcase items and promotions instead of just displaying the grid list of products. To create a static block go to CMS -> Static Blocks , then select Add New Block. In this case we are going to create a block for use on the Cell Phone sub-category page. We enter the Block title, for internal use, and the identifier, which will create the URL for this page. We then select the store we want to use the Block on, in this case all stores, and set the Block to enabled. Once that is done we enter our content in an HTML Format and select Save Block. Now that we have the block created we set it up for use on the Cell Phone sub-category page as described in the Creating and Managing Categories. The static blocks are incredibly flexible, allowing you to create something as simple as a text category description, or something as intricate as multiple image maps, such as what we are showcasing on the Electro...

Magento static block in cms page: you can write some special tag in cms page for call the magento static block like: xxxxx How to call a static block from template files? to add a static block into footer.phtml: 1) add a new static block (in this example Identifier is my_footer_block ) 2) layout/page.xml in: block type = "page/html_footer" name = "footer" as= "footer" template = "page/html/footer.phtml" > add a: block type = "cms/block" name = "my_footer_block" > action method = "setBlockId" > block_id > my_footer_block block_id > action > block > so in this example it will looks like: block type = "page/html_footer" name = "footer" as= "footer" template = "page/html/footer.phtml" > block type = "page/switch" name = "store_switcher" as= "store_switcher...