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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...

Magento static Blocks are used as a banner and other external links. We can show our new shop features through static blocks. If we design our site in magento and completely different from magento then we use static blocks. Login Block, Catalog Blocks, Special Products , and etc ..... we show the blocks , we will go at magento admin panel and create static blokc in cms /content section. if we define static block position, we will write like this: continue.....

Magento is a new ecommerce Model. Magento use zend frame work. It developed in mvc model. Magento have lot of options. It is suitable for ecom based shops. CMS: ------- Magento have content management system utility. there is also static block options. ---- continue ------------

Magento is a ecommerce model under open source lisence. Magento is a newest fastly growing e-com model. It have lot of functionalites, more user friendly and easy to use. ---- ........................ comming soon....