Free Magento Absolute Theme
September 29, 2009 · Print This Article
Things have been pretty quiet around Templates Master for last few days. But there’s a good reason for that. We were working on new free theme for Magento community members. So today we are proud to introduce our new free Absolute Magento TAheme. Feel free to download it from our store or Magento Connect. Check theme demo at our demo store.
- Product preview module!
- Featured product slider!
- Easy color changes
- Easy to upgrade, easy to customise
- Supports all main browsers (IE6,IE7,IE8,FF2,FF3,Opera,Safari)
- Free updates included
Installation instruction and source .psd file is included in this package.
Template is available under Creative Commons License for commercial and personal use.
Commercial license is available at our store.
Thanks Nice theme
wow! this is fabulous…thanks! so very much
Hello,
Thanks for this theme. It’s very nice theme. I want to change the color. I want it in pink color. It is possible? I discovered Magento and I would switch my shop as soon as possible
Again thank you thank you
Hello Jadelynn, we are planning to publish additional theme colors after this theme will be tested and all bugs will be fixed.
First of all thanks for your magnificent theme.
Two questions:
1- How can I remove “best free Magento theme” text, next to logo?
2- Also, how can I add featured products?
Cheers
Hello Navid,
#1 You can edit this image skin/frontend/default/f001/images/slogan.gif
#2 You have to create featured attribute and add it to your attributes set. After that you will be able to set products featured.
Nice theme, thank you very much. Is there a way to limit the looping of the slider to just one time? I see frequency, duration, and auto glide, but not a loop control.
Hello Don, sorry but we don’t have this option right now.
I loved the last theme, and this one is just as slick. It is amazing that your two themes blow away any free crap on the internet.
Quite frankly, the only reason why I can’t go back to osCommerce, is that NONE of those installs look like your themes.
THANK YOU
Derek
Theme is great , But how do you set up slider , Or product preview.
Would be real nice if color was more dynamic. ie a field value to change per store. , So I o not have to select different locations
w
how can i update the products view page, I want the additional info to show next to the product image bellow price.
any word on when the extra colors will be available?
Hi, very nice work. A question: for your first free theme, you gave us an example for a dropdown menu. I tried to implement it in the new theme, but it doesn’t work correct. The dropdown function work, but the name of the top word, which initialize the dropdown function, is to high displayed. I can’t solve the problem, perhaps you can help me. (sorry for my bad english, in germany we don’t speak much english)
Hello Rene, what is your store url? Probably you have some missing close tag .
Great theme, thank you!
Can you provide a few details, for example how to add items to the dropdown menu?
Also, are most bugs fixed? I want to make sure it’s safe to use this theme in production. If so I will definitely consider the commercial license.
Hello Mark,
#1 Do you want to add static pages as dropdown?
#2 We have not found yet any serious bug
#3 You should edit featured template catalog/product/featured.phtml
Thanks!
Yes, I do want to add static pages to the menu too.
This is a great theme, thank you. I will definitely come back and purchase a theme for future projects.
One more question:
How is it possible to add the product name to the “Featured Products” section? Many of my products look alike, so the name would help.
Thanks!
I really like this theme. Only problem is that even though I followed the instructions, the featured items is populated, but with just the first 25 items in my store, And those items are not even selected to be there,
Hi PC Games Plus, do you have any other extension installed? It should not work like this.
Hi, Yes I have many other extensions installed actually. As follows
AW_Blog
BoutikCircus_DeleteOrders
Bysoft_Advancetag
Flagbit_ChangeAttributeSet
Fontis_Recaptcha
Fontis_Wysiwyg
Fooman_SameOrderInvoiceNumber
Fooman_Speedster
FreeQuickContact
MDN_CustomerUniversalPassword
Mage_Online
Mage_Productlist
Mass_Product_Relater
Morningtime_TextfieldLayeredNav
Order_Status
Remerce_ProductQuestion
TBT_Enhancedgrid
Tags_Cloud
Unirgy_Giftcert
magento_easy_tabs
Any help would be great. Thanks so much for this awesome theme.
Hi,
Any update on my issue? I really like this theme and I am considering purchasing it. I can’t if the issue isn’t Thanks for a great theme!
Hi,
Thanks for helping me get this sorted. You guys are top notch!
What was the answer to this? I have the same problem.
I figured out why the first 25 products showed up even though I had setup the featured attribute and selected certain products to be featured.
When you are setting up the featured attribute near the bottom (in the Frontend Properties section) where it says “Used in product listing” make sure to select “Yes”.
I either totally missed this or it wasn’t in the instructions I read. Thanks for the great theme!
Hi,
I really love this theme. I am a complete newbie to Magento and web design. So I followed the instructions and now have it on my site. It doesnt have any products so it looks slightly different. What I am trying to do now is to add the rest, so that it looks like your demo.
I was wondering if the file I downloaded also includes the other pages in your demo. Like each product page layout and main category page? Also, is it possible to get a the data so I can populate according to your demo, so I can work backwards instead of forwards. You probably dont know my meaning.
Anyway, amazing job. My favorite template/theme so far (paid or free).
We are using magento sample data for all out themes demo. You should install sample data before magento installation.
I was fond of the last one with its many colors, but this one is a step above… And still free ! I hope it will be compliant with the upcoming 1.4 version of Magento and that you will soon offer new colors !
Thanks and go on !
Hi and well done on this new theme, very slick indeed.
I am pretty sure I have followed all the installation steps to the letter, and all looks as expected, except when I tried to edit a product to select “featured” = Yes (Assuming this is what enables it to be a featured product on the front page), I was given the following error message.
SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘created_at’ in ‘field list’
I have backtracked through the steps and will continue to investigate, but thought I would post here in case its something that has already have encountered.
Any and all guidance is appreciated.
Nevermind…solved.
Go to Admin > System > Cache Management
Rebuild Flat Catalog Category
Rebuild Flat Catalog Product
and was then able to save featured products.
I have downloaded this new theme. FAR ABOVE MY EXPECTATIONS. I have already bought some templates from other companies but their paying ones are not as good as your free ones. Featured, slider, newsletter visible is a great step above the previous theme (already great).
I hope you will release new colors and make sure it will be 1.4 compliant.
Yes of course we will continue our support on all our community extensions and themes so don’t worry. As soon as we will have stable version of 1.4 we will release upgraded versions of themes.
Hi, it has to be simple, but I cannot figure out why only my home page shows the theme. All inner pages are showing the blue theme, but the home page is working great. I tried clearing the cache, but no luck.
Hello Roger, please check home page settings. Most likely you have assigned default theme to you home page.
http://blog.templates-master.com/free-magento-absolute-theme/#comment-1748
Hello template-master,
after I click Reply I don’t see my answer, so I decide to make a new post.
You ask me for my store url, here it is: http://www.ppf24.eu . I hope you can help me.
Not sure what is your problem. Does it work with out additional dropdown items?
Hi again,
here is the code I use for the dropdown menu:
Service
Beschriftung
Mietbekleidung
Individualserie
Größentabellen
Anfahrt
Wir über uns
Kontakt
The problem is, the word “Service” in the menu (please take a look at our homepage at http://www.ppf24.eu) is not displayed correct. It’s to high. When you hover with your curser above the word, the dropdown menu opens but you can’t select the points because when you move your mouse down to the points the dropdown menu close (you can’t reach the dropdown menu).
I fixed the problem of the incorrect position of the word “Service” myself. Another option to make a dropdown menu is to create a new cms block, create a new category and there you must chose in the display settings the cms block you want to see after you select the category in your shop menue.
Hello,
I really like this theme. I downloaded the package with graphic sources. I want to change the colors in Photoshop. But how do i slice for magento. I am really confused here, Because in the PSD file there are only three slices of this theme.
Thanks!
Hello Azim, we will update psd file soon.
I’m working on a new magento site and the code seems to be fine, but I can´t locate de New Poducts extension. I´ve added the code to homepage ‘custom design’ Layout Update XML:.
But the New Poducts is still invisible. Why?.
PS: The installation seems to be good.
Hello Sergio, you should set products as new. Please open any product in admin and set “Set Products As new From Date” for it.
Hi guys,
Thanks for this awesome theme, respect! I have just altered the slider files and then I noticed that the 5th slide does not show. I checked this on your demosite and I see the problem. Also the slider buttons underneath do appear not to be always working correctly. When I click on number 3 for instance, I get to see the first picture of number 1. Am I correct or am I making a wrong assumtpion somewhere?
I hope you have a smart solution for this once again.
Best regards and keep up the great work!
Jacco
I’m sorry, I found out that my DSL line had huge issues yesterday which caused the pages to not load entirely. When I test it now on my website and your demosite, it all works fine again!
However I still do have one other question: how can I get the about us page to work properly? It does not work on the demostore for absolute either. I hope you can help out, thanks for your time and trouble?
Jacco
You should create static page in admin > cms > static pages with identifier about or any other you need.
Hello Jacco, thanks for reporting bug. It will be fixed in next theme release.
I think there is a bug.
Click on “Quick View” for any product on the main page. Then, choose “Add to Basket”. You get forwarded automatically to the basket page. When clicking on “Continue Shopping”, it returns you to the previous product page with a blank background.
It would be preferable if there is a way to control the behaviour of what happens when clicking on “Add to Basket” from the “Quick View” page. For example, I prefer to have the customer forwarded to the category page of the product he/she chose instead of forwarding them to the basket contents page.
Click on “Quick View” for any product on the main page. Then, choose “Add to Basket”. You get forwarded automatically to the basket page. When clicking on “Continue Shopping”, it returns you to the previous product page with a blank background.
same here, safari/firefox MAC
Hello Paul, thank you for reporting this bug. We will work on it.
Hello,
When we surf to the template also on your demo server, the buttons get a strange look when scrolling. That with IE 8 and also with IE 7.
For the rest perfect template!!!
When we surf to the template also on your demo server, the buttons get a strange look when scrolling. That with IE 8 and also with IE 7.For the rest perfect template!!!
What is your IE version? We can’t see this problem form several computers.
We are using IE 8 and IE 7 on windows 7, VISTA and XP.
Once we click on the button, the button get disorderd.
Also when scrolling there are white lines coming throught the buttons.
Let me know your email and reference and then i can send you a screenshot.
Regards,
Xavier
right side of buttons (rounded corner) are not aligned correctly ( safari mac ) same with your demo.
also the iphone view layout (when setup as exception with your theme are not displaying correctly.
Hi guys! I just installed your Absolute Theme and it looks really great! I have a problem… I can’t get the featured products to get listed in the homepage. I already create and set the ‘featured’ attribute and complete the field with ‘Yes’, however products doe not appear. Do I have to install some extra extension? Please, help me!
Hello Belen, you should create featured attribute with yes/no value options not jsut yes text. Then you should add it to your default attributes set and set products as featured.
thanks for your replay. I changed the featured input field to Yes/no dropdown and it worked. However, now I upload this theme to my online server, I followed all steps and my featured products dont show on homepage. Not even the featured product panel is visible. What is wrong now??
I have magento 1.3.2.3 on localhost (featured product is working) and magento 1.3.2.4 online (featured products not working)
Hello Belen, have you set your cache off?
Yes, i choose “disabled” for all my cache before start to install this theme, however featured products is not showing
I’ve already solved the problem. I forgot to upload app/etc and app/code folder.
thanks!!!
How can I disable “Quick View” ??
Hello Seme1, you sould edit template files to do so.
I really liked this theme. However, it is not showing any categories. Could not figure out, why? Any help is highly appritiated.
Hello Kaushik, most likely you have assigned different theme to your categories in admin. Please open categories in admin and check custom design tab.
First of all, great template, youve helped me in so many ways. I think that ive got everything figured out now except for one part. In your nice preview picture above here, you can already see about 8 products under the header “new products”. How do i get those there? Its just an empty space..
Thanks for reading and I’d really appreciate an answer!
Sjoerd.
Hello Sjoerd, you should set product as new in admin. Please open product in admin and set “Set products as new from date” for it.
Thank you very much. This is an awesome theme! But I have a problem here, I follow the instructions and set up the featured attribute with Yes/No. And I set one test product both new and featured yes. However,it only showed up in New but not featured. I got nothing in featured. What can I do with it? Thank you again.
Hello Charlene, Can you send us link to your store?
Thank you guys so much. I just find out it’s purely because I didn’t well install it. I just copy the skin and the app files. Now it’s all fixed. It’s really an awesome theme, thank you again!
Are you soon to publish additional colors?
We are planning to do this till the end of the month.
Awesome! Thank you for such great work! Will definitely purchase themes in the future when doing jobs for others!
Just to thanks you !
You release the best free magento theme on the web…
Hi Guys! Thank you for this excellent theme! When will you provide a .psd containing all slices?
Many thanks in advance!
Hello Funguy, you can download psd from our store. But it doesn’t have all slices because we used sprites to make this theme load faster.
Hello There,
I am new to Magento and I tried Absolute theme, it looks fantastic but I have problem in getting the New Products and Featured products displayed in the site even though I added a product. I followed the installation guide given and in my view I have done everything but no luck. Can some one help me please. I would appreciate if someone can explain clearly which files go to which folder and if there is any work around to get them displayed.
Hello Adam, Have you set your products featured and new in admin? Please send us your store url so we can check what is wrong.
Hi… I was hoping that you could show how to add code to the footer links that will show a link to the RSS Feeds page with the RSS icon
Hello PC Games Plus, as far as we can see you did it in right way. You added rss link to footer links block.
Thank you for this great design.
Unfortunately this work for me the home page on Internet Explorer - see: http://www.winterbekleidung.com / magento. In Mozila Firefox everything is going great.
On what is that? About a proposed solution, I’d be very happy!
Hello Stefanie, as far as we can see everything looks good both in IE and FF. What exactly problem do you have?
Hi,
not sure what’s wrong, probably something i am doing, but when i add code to the homepage cms like
{{block type=”catalog/product_list” template=”catalog/product/list_main.phtml”}}
i get an error like
Warning: Mage_Core_Block_Template::include(/var/www/virtualhosts/shop/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/list_main.phtml) [function.Mage-Core-Block-Template-include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/virtualhosts/shop/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php on line 144
Anything i did wrong during installation?
Thx
Thomas
Hello Thomas, you don’t have this template file var/www/virtualhosts/shop/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/list_main.phtml
I’m having a problem with the slider. If i put in more then 12 slides, strange things happen. Is there maximum number of slides defined?
Hello Jasper, thanks for reporting bug. Our programmer will test this issue.
I get error message when i paste the key
Failed to download magento-community/magento_absolute_theme_free within preferred state “stable”, latest release is version 0.5, stability “beta”, use “channel://connect.magentocommerce.com/community/magento_absolute_theme_free-0.5″ to install
Cannot initialize ‘channel://connect.magentocommerce.com/community/magento_absolute_theme_free’, invalid or missing package file
Install Errors
Package “channel://connect.magentocommerce.com/community/magento_absolute_theme_free” is not valid
PEAR ERROR: install failed
Hello Edmend, you should set preferable state to Beta at your Magento Downloader configuration.
Actually i mean the glider, any slides above 13 go wrong.
Hi. i just wanna thank you for this AMAZING theme. I did some customization to it and here’s the finished product.
http://www.redmousecomputers.com/
My store is also finally opened so i’m very excited
Hi, this is very nice templates. I put him upon his site, but I do not show featured product box. Maybe you can help the hearing
Hello Arensas, you should create featured attribute according to installation manual and assign at least one product as featured in admin.
Thank you for this great theme.
A small bug in Safari 4!!
The right side of buttons is not aligned.
Hello Muri, we will fix this bug in next release.
Have a bug here, same problem as seme1 (http://blog.templates-master.com/free-magento-absolute-theme/#comment-2236)
When product is added to shopping cart and user goes thru continue shopping button he is redirected back to quick view mode, but in full screen (http://www.loja-virtual.uni.cc/ajax/product/quickview/id/166/) - this is the blank background commented.
Hello Marcos, do you get this error at our test server?
Ok. You just switch off the funcionallity of that button CONTINUE SHOPPING, right? Now in the demo server that button is now working anymore also.
Shopping cart must be earranged to be nicer. Take the in this print: http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3145/hereh.jpg
This empty place is used to show related products so estimate shipping block can’t be moved at this place.
This theme looks very nice. I was a big fan of the Classic theme also. I used it for my webshop untill I made some money to buy another theme that matches better with my store.
When I look at the Absolute theme demo store I notice some strange things happening with the backgrounds. It’s also happening on other websites mentioned in the posts above that use this theme. I’m using Firefox 3.5.5 and Safari 4.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.7.
If that can be solved, I think I’ll use this theme for my next store.
Hello Jordy, what exactly problem with backgrounds do you have?
It looks my browser has some problems rendering the page. I see big blue or white area’s and what is supposed to be on top of them isn’t loading at all.
I have the same issue with pages from Google’s Webmaster Tools.
I guess it’s caused by my machine and there’s actually nothing wrong with the sites I try to visit. But if someone has a suggestion how to solve it, that would be great!
I downloaded Magento Absolute Theme and was wondering how i can just take the Featured product slider and Product preview module out of this theme and add it to my website theme?
Sorry Chris, but this is quite complex process and it’s can’t be explained here.
Hi,
Compliments for the great Theme!
I found 2 irregularities:
- texts on the Quick View pop-up are not translated in Dutch. I found the same with on someone else’s German website. Could you please instruct where and how to influence these translations?
- if more than one item is in the shopping basket, the shopping basket icon on the top-right page breaks into 2 lines. Part of the text of the second line becomes hidden under the ‘main frame’. Can I move the basket to the left myself or otherwise remove it?
Thanks for your reply and keep up the good work,
Eric
Hi , Great Theme !!!
I am having the same problem others have had in this thread with the bottom featured box not showing . I have installed magento twice and this theme as I thought I did something wrong in the start . But it keeps coming back looking like this http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g319/ismadman/Home.jpg
I used webdeveloper and its telling me that that bar down the bottom ( arrow ) is the featured div but for some reason its not populating ?? I have 1 item set to the featured attribute which is the item pictured in the whats new area . I have uploaded the whole package and also disabled my cache settings beforehand . Am I missing something ??? Any help would be great
Hi Ismadman, you should do next steps:
#1 Created “featured” attribute at admin according to installation manual.
#2 Add this attribute to your default attributes set.
#3 Set any product as featured.
Nice theme.
To bad the magento is so damm hard to use, that i cant instal this theme =(
Hello Urgenus, is it ok now?
Some CSS erros on custom.css. Here: http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4927/templatescsserros.jpg
Hello,
Love your classic theme!
But somehow all the categories I add are automatically placed under the Products tab.
How do I stop this from happening and remove the Products tab and place individual tabs, for each of my products, in line with the Home tab?
Hello Graham, You should edit /app/design/frontend/default/f002/templates/catalog/navigation/top.phtml.
Instead of
<li onmouseover="toggleMenu(this,1)" onmouseout="toggleMenu(this,0)">
<a href="<?php echo $this->getUrl('') ?>"><?php echo $this->__('Products') ?></a>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?>
<?php echo $this->drawItem($_category) ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>
</li>
please paste
<?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?><?php echo $this->drawItem($_category) ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
hi there,
really we love this theme. But this is only Beta version..
how could we install on stable version???
Thanks.
hi there, I successfully installed it… thanks for your great work…
Hello Fu, We will release stable version this week.
Great template, install was really easy. I just have one question, in the screenshot of the template there are 4 products per row on the main screen. But i cant seem to get 4 on my main page… How do i change this?
Thanks again,
Hi there, I don’t how to delete the 2 pictures(/skin/frontend/default/f001/images/media/callout_side1.jpg & callout_side2.jpg) on the right callout column. I try to find it out from the catalog.xml, but failed. Thanks for your kind help..
And actually, I want to know how to show the detailed product name and price at “Featured products” in homepage…. I need to show it as what showed at “new product” area….
Hello Fu, “new product” area shows products set as new in admin. You have to edit featured product listing template catalog/product/featured.phtml to add product name.
Hello Fu, please remove this code from home page xml
<block type="core/template" name="right.callout1" template="callouts/left_col.phtml" before="-"><action method="setImgSrc"><src>images/media/callout_side1.jpg</src></action>
<action method="setImgAlt" translate="alt" module="catalog"><alt>Call Us Toll Free. (555) 555-555</alt></action>
<action method="setLinkUrl"><url>checkout/cart</url></action>
</block>
<block type="core/template" name="right.callout2" template="callouts/left_col.phtml" after="right.callout1">
<action method="setImgSrc"><src>images/media/callout_side2.jpg</src></action>
<action method="setImgAlt" translate="alt" module="catalog"><alt>Free domestic shippings</alt></action>
<action method="setLinkUrl"><url>checkout/cart</url></action>
</block>
It works and I really thanks all of you.
THe Theme looks Impressive. WHen our we going to expect the stable version? Please e-mail us when its done. Thanks and Great work!
Hello Funbrain, there was no serious bugs reported so you can use this theme with out any problem. We decided to delay additional colors till Magento 1.4 unfortunatly.
Hi! First of all, thank you for your great template, it rocks!!. I have a problem that I can’t solve myself, so I ask you a bit of help. When I change at homepage the new.phtml for this line:
(and also changed new.phtml to random.phtml) I get the output duplicated, that is, after the tag the output of random.phtml appears also. random.phtml is the same as new.phtml (which works shows ok) only chaning this line to get the random products instead of new ones:
if (($_products = $this->getLoadedProductCollection()) && $_products->getSize()): ?>
Any idea where I can start looking for the problem? I do not know why when I change the template output from new.phtml to the same with that line changed (and block type catalog/product_list_random) I get the output DIV again after the closing tag.
Thanks million!
Sorry seems the line got formatted and deleted. This is the line I changed on XML of homepage:
block type=”catalog/product_list_random” template=”catalog/product/random.phtml”
Closing tag is /HTML (Also got formatted)
Nevermind, solved =)
Thanks!
First off I wanted to tell you that this is a great template. The only thing that I have run into is getting the top menu to drop down. I noticed that it works fine on the demo site but I can’t see how to make it work on mine.
Thank you for this theme, it looks very great. But i have one little problem with the featured products. Can you help me please? Here is the Link to the Site.
http://magento.charlie543.server4you.de/index.php/
Sorry, i am a magento newbie.
Hello Alf4, what is the problem with featured products slider?
Hi gr8 theme =)
Can you please tell me how to increase no of products in “New Product” By default it is 8. I tried to edit new.phtml but didn’t understand a bit there wht’s happening. please help
Hello Sushil, you should edit xml code for main page
<action method="setProductsCount"><count>8</count></action>I have installed this template and love it. Can someone please direct me to where to set up the product slider like it is on the demo site.
Thanks,
Rick
Hello Rick, do you want to install featured products slider?
Yes, I want to be sure that i am doing it correctly. I see that you also have a product called spotlight, but that seems like something different? I want the bigger picture graphics that you are using in the demo slider.
Thanks,
Rick
figured it out. needed to read the instructions that you do not get from magento connect but from your site.
Thanks
Hi,
Thanks for the great theme. I am trying to adjust it to my needs. I have changed it to 3 columns.
I would like to have the layered navigation in the left column.
I can’t figure out how to do this. Can you give me some advise?
Regards Paul
Hello Paul, you should check magento forum http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/4810. But we don’t think that it’s right to use layered navigation in such way. You should better set category page as your home page.
Hi i need your help.
Iv done everything like said in the instalation help file.
But as u can see this is my homepage how can i assit the featred product there ? and how can i add new product to be there too ?
The only problem i have is how to personel my homepage would be very nice from u to help.
This is the URL of my site http://www.immodriss.com/magento
Thank you.
Hello Coeugh, you have to create featured attribute and add it to your attributes set. After that you will be able to set products featured.
If you are implementing this to 1.4.0.0-beta1, you will probably see misplaced menu item. If you notice the source code, magento now puts to extra tags before the menu caption. To work around this, edit your “/app/design/frontend/default/f001/template/catalog/navigation/top.phtml”
Replace following
————————————————-
getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?>
drawItem($_category) ?>
————————————————-
with this
————————————————-
getStoreCategories() as $_category) {
$search = “”;
$replace = “”;
$text = $this->drawItem($_category);
$text = str_ireplace($search, $replace, $text);
$search = “”;
$replace = “”;
$text = $text;
echo $text;
}
?>
————————————————-
And all will be fine. If you want me to do this for you, you can mail at junaid.mansoor [at] tajmac [dot] net
Cheers
Hi, thanks for the great work, it’s really shining.
but when i use the 1.4 rc1, have the same problem of the header, can’t work under FF or IE 8, no problem under IE6
i tried to follow you to change:
getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?>
drawItem($_category) ?>
but as you see, it have the before getStoreCategories, also have the before drawItem($_category), so it should have prefix like this for other code?
This is page is not displaying HTML codes properly. So please visit this for correct code:
http://www.tajmac.net/portal/knowledgebase/1/Magento-Absolute-Theme-on-14-rc1.html
It is probably striping some code from comment due to security reason. Anyways, you can mail me for that.
“you have to create featured attribute and add it to your attributes set. After that you will be able to set products featured.”
I have done that, I think. I do have a “featured” listing under attributes. Not sure what you mean by setting the products as featured. under products->manage the products under attrib. sets name = default, but I do not see anywhere to change that to featured, under catalog->manage Products-> it shows Massager (default). And no field to set the attribute set to featured.
Rradvice, you should go to admin > catalog > attributes > manage attributes > create attributes. Set attribute code “featured” and catalog input type to “yes/no”.
After that you can open your attributes set at admin > catalog > attributes > manage attributes set and add featured attribute to it. Then you will be able to open product in admin and set featured to “yes”.
I got it working, when creating new products. I can set to featured and they will show up in the bottom of the home page as featured products.
But, if the products already exist, when I locate them under products and click edit the attribute sets do not show up to be changed. at the top of the screen it has Backknobber II (Default) ie [Product Name (Attribute Set) ] and I can not find anywhere to change the assigned attribute
Hello Rradvice, you should add featured attribute to same attributes set as all your products use. You don’t need to create special attributes set for featured products.
You have the list-style currently set to none to enable all the menu layers to work correctly, however, how can I enable them just for the product description as at the moment I cannot use number or bullets.
You should use one of predefined styles. For example disc
<ul class="disc">
….
</ul>
I like your Template and magento. I have been trying to figure it all put.
I will have a main site and multiple stores. and would like to Have each store with different colors. I noticed that you are not going to work on that until ver 1.4.
I looked through all doc trying to get information on the following…
1. Slider.. I was hoping to get the slider working easly for each store. I tried to add featured attribute on products so they would show. But I get nothing. All I really want is on each store main screen to show slider of Pictures of the Store. and maybe some specials. how can that be done easly
2. How do you changes colors
I changed one place.css background. reset.css color changes except for Footer.
Do you have a definitive file.css and what need to change to get different colors.. Just a quick and dirty Documentation
W
Hello Will,
#1 You should install featured attribute in right way. It should be yes/no dropbox and you should add it to your attributes set.
#2 Right now there is no additional colors. So we would recommend to install firebug extension for Firefox and locate each css style you need.
that’s wonderful theme，i want to try it
In the installation files I got from the website, the home page xml is the same as the home page content, I figured this is an error. I also figure this is why my new products and featured section does not show up at all.
Can you please give me the home page xml to see if this fixes the issue.
Other than that, great theme!
Hello Jose, can you send us your store url?
Well, the theme is no longer active, I had to solve with another solution, but your download files does not provide the xml code for the home page. I would like to get it so that I can use it in the future.
Hello Jose, please check installation directory in themes package. You will find all required code there.
GREAT theme! but as the rookie I am I run into an issue that I can’t figure out…
PROBLEM; will not show the footer links even if I followed instructions (and copied content) in install.html… Bottom is blank!
(Set up Footer Links, menu and contacts as CMS static blocks and they are all Enabled and choosed All store views)
A
Hello Ann, what is your footer links block identifier? It should be footer_links. Please contact us at our contact form if you still have this problem.
Hi again, you were right about the identifier: footer_links_f001 didn’t work but footer_links did. Thanks…
Dear TemplatesMaster,
I have installed this theme, version 0.5. May i know if the bugs are fixed in this theme. Where can i get the updates, i have been trying to add a new category, but it did not appear. Please advise.
Thanks
There is no serious bugs in this theme. We will release new version after magento will release 1.4 stable version.
Anyone try this or any other templates on 1.4 rc1 yet are they compatible or will they be?
Hello Tom, no both templates should be upgraded before using with 1.4 rc1.
Love the theme, would you consider releasing a Quick View extension that could also be implemented on it’s own?
Hello Gemma, yes we will release such extension soon.
Are you waiting till final 1.4 is out to start releasing templates for it or are you working on them now as 1.4 rc1 is already out? Are there particular ones that will take priority over others? I assume the free ones will be last but in paid ones are you going to update newest first or any other plan?
Hello Tom, we are waiting for 1.4 final. Please don’t worry we will upgrade free themes as soon as possible.
Hi thanks for your great template, but when i installed the template anything is fine but only the menu bar is misplaced. please help because i checked the top.phtml file is same as the orginal one but the output have two more come out.
Here is the solutions.
http://www.tajmac.net/portal/knowledgebase/1/Magento-Absolute-Theme-on-14-rc1.html
Do comment if it worked for you.
Hello Felix, are you using any navigation extension? Please disable them if you use any.
How can I change the size for the category image? We are able to set different image for different category, but it automatically shrink it to width:475px only.. and it is not centre.. so it looks not good to me. I try to find all the files in app folder or skin folder, nowhere I could edit the size for the category image. Anyone could help?
It isn’t theme issue. You should edit app\design\frontend\default\yourtheme\template\catalog\category\view.phtml.
Thanks a lot!!! I found the files you said from the default theme and edit it. Thank you so much!
Great Template!
But is it possible to random display new Products on the startpage?. I have over 50+ new products an I don’t want to display them all at the same time!
thx
Hello Horkmaster, You can try solution at http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/32720/P15/
Folks, let me say what a fabulous template this is and it is free, (okay, I will have to purchase the commercial license)!
I just installed it using magento connect and ran into some problems with the featured functionality. I did everything in the instruction but kept getting same problem. the problem is available at zhyeon.com/flt122. the homepage.
Sorry, fixed now! ignore the comment above
Thinking how to implement Google adsense on the right column of product list and product view page? Check this out!
http://www.tajmac.net/portal/knowledgebase/3/Google-Ads-in-Magento-Absolute-Theme-on-14-rc1–product-right-column.html
Your comments and votes are welcome.
Regards
J. Sootwala
Hi,
I have tried manually adding pages to the menu by adding them to the “menu” static block. However, I cannot get it to work in such a way that the menu item is higlighted when that page is active. For example, if the user is on the page “Test” or one of its sub-pages, I would like the “Test” menu item to be highlighted. How can I make this happen?
Thanks!
Mark
Hi Mark, you should add your page id to next list
custom.css (line 1)
.cms-home .nav-home a, .contacts-index-index .nav-contacts a, .cms-about-magento-demo-store .nav-about a {
….
}
Thank you!
tried to install via Magento Connect extension key, but it is no longer valid.. Anyone having the same problem?
Hello Vinzsama, have you used magento-community/magento_absolute_theme_free ?
I believe it needs compatibility change for ver1.4
I’d like to remove some of the white space at the bottom of the main column, but I can’t find the CSS that controls that. Any advice?
TIA
Another question:
How can I get bulleted lists to appear properly in product descriptions?
Thanks.
Mark, You should add class=”disc” to your tags.
Hi Folks,
I have looked at this theme before, and ran into some issues customizing it - namely with menu and trying to make slices for the psd!
Is there any guidance on:
a) Making accurate sprites for container.png (so I can recolour it all!) - my attempts never quite look correct with shadows etc
b) Am running into issue where I need to add links to static cms pages to dropdown menu items - I know the code to add a static link to the menu, but to the dropdowns ?
c) menu again - it seems like I may need to add another layer to the menu entirely (something akin to the menu found on http://www.inchoo.net) any pointers ? I can find little documentation!
cheers,
Great theme! I’m really new to Magento, so I have a really basic question… I’ve installed the theme, but it came in blue. How do I change the color to pink? I’ve downloaded the zip file, but don’t know what to do with it.
Thank you very much!
Hi Eugenio, you should simply copy selected color skin files over install blue theme.
It did work! Changed graphic elements and also the color of the text. Thank you so much! I’m really new to Magento and to themes, is there any kind of tutorial you could point me to? I can do self-study and also I don’t want to bother you with every single doubt that occurs me. Thanks again!
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Hi, great theme, have installed it today on a new Magento 1.4 install and it doesn’t seem to work!? Has anyone else had problems?
No, please wait for theme upgrade or use Magento 1.3.2.4.
Thankyou for your quick reply I read that you are updating the Themes…Once again excellent service! Please hurry, I am awaiting the updates for activation of a site
Hi Folks,
We are working through a whole host of mods to the template, all going quite nice - however I m coming unstuck when it gets to the menu.
Firstly: How do we create a sub-menu item via a static block ? I can see the top.phtml calling the static block (menu), and i have code akin to ‘About Us‘in my block - I have tried adding an indented list item but no joy!
Secondly am I right in thinking that I can change the menu dynamically via top.phtml (spome form of if/else ont he menu call) ? In this instance I have product anchor links on my horizontal menu (i.e. products_1, products_b) - I would like to replace these with ’store’ - and when store is selected show a the product options on their own horizontal menu.
I am currently using this amazing theme for my parents website. I do however have a problem with it, due to the amount of categories within the catalog it makes the navigation go over on to two lines, thus making it look bad.
Is there anyway to change the navigation setup, instead of showing all the categories in the navigation, but to have one link which when rolledover, it would display all the categories?
Any help would be much appreicated.
Hello Craig, You can hide navigation items in top menu via css. Each category marked with css class (nav-apparel, nav-electronics and so on). You can check source code of your store page for all class names. Then you will be able to out list of cateogries to hide in your custom.css. So it will look like this
.header-nav .nav-apparel, .header-nav .nav-electronics {display: none;}Craig,
You could create a root category called “Products” and then put all the other categories under that. Very easy.
Mark
That’s also good way to solver problem with too much root categories.
Firstly great theme.i’ve just installed this theme today and I’m really impressed-migrated from classic theme.the only problem is i am trying to put product names on Featured products.so far i know i have to edit the featured.phtml and i don’t know what to edit,thanks
Hi Kelvin, you can put same code as you have in catalog/product/list.phtml
<h5><a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>"><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?></a></h5>Hi,
I love your theme. Just got everything working yeaterday and when I tried to add a signup block, I cleared the cache and all the products along with the nav bar is missing. I switch to the blank theme so every thing is intact. I figured it must be something in the template. I also applied this fix: http://www.tajmac.net/portal/knowledgebase/1/Magento-Absolute-Theme-on-14-rc1.html but no luck. What am I doing wrong? Please help!
Thank you so much!
Hello Christine, please contact us with your store details and we will check what’s wrong.
Hello,
Thank you for a beautiful theme. I had everything running perfectly then I decided to add a static block and the menu and all the products disappeared. I know it’s something that I must have done to the theme because the default base theme works when I switch it.
Please help, Thanks!
Christine
Hello Christine, please check code in static block ‘menu’. It should not have tags. Most likely WISISYG editor added this tags and it’s broken top menu code.
Is anyone getting good results with the new 1.4-compatible version? The layout is completely broken for me and I can’t get it fixed. Any advice would help. (Clean 1.4 install.)
Hello Mark, please update your Absolute Magento Theme from Magento Connect. We had broken package at our store for 1-2 days.
Hi
I am getting confused about two methods of installing the theme.
1)First method is describe in install.html of your zip package (ready v.1.3.2.4). in this method I am manually required to upload files to server, add home page content code, add static blocks, add features and assigned to feature set, selecting theme in admin etc.
2)Second method is via magento connect (Megento 1.4 compatible- magento-community/magento_absolute_theme_free) , after installing via this method do we still need to do any other manual steps? such as creating static blocks, adding feature to feature sets , copying files to server etc?
Also first method only has the version 1.3.2.4 and the second method offers beta 1.4..please tell us how can go about doing the installation, what method should i adopt?
I finished installation, My home page does npt look so good..http://betterfuture.x10hosting.com/ecomatic.com.au/
Can anyone please help me sort this?
Regards
I am going to install the (ready v.1.3.2.4), but after u released 1.4 stable version , is there any easier way to upgrade ? or i would have to do the whole process again?
Hi Aqva, 1.4 is already release and you can install it both from Magento connect or our store. We do reccomend to use 1.4 on new stores. Upgrading themes is quite difficult process.
Hello my friends!
Is there a way to change the width of the left-column? I’m using the 3-column design but my left callout images are smaller than 195 pixels. I would like to make left column smaller and use the extra space in the middle column (where the products are).
Thank you!
You should edit css styles.css (line 103)
.col-left {
…..
width:195px;
}
I finished installation, My home page does npt look so good..
http://betterfuture.x10hosting.com/ecomatic.com.au/
Can anyone please help me sort this?
Regards
I have fixed the problem..now my home page looks great..
I had to install the newer version of theme via megento connect. and change the home page content code with the code which is shown in intall.html (including in v1.3.2.4) package.
One problem, when hovering the mouse over the featured product, the image is not popping out as it does in the demo site.
my site address: ecomatic.com.au
Sorry but we can’t access ecomatic.com.au. You server show “Out of memory” error. You should contact your hosting and ask to increase memory allocation limit.
you can access now, its up and running
How can I remove this line from the bottom of the page?
© 2008 Magento Demo Store. All Rights Reserved. Magento Theme by Templates Master
debug profiler doesn’t seems to work with this theme..? any suggestion?
You should add <?php echo $this->getChildHtml() ?> to your footer.phtml to see profiler.
i have tried your code getChildHtml() ?> , but this doesn’t bring out profiler view for my frontend.
btw i already have this code getChildHtml(’store_switcher’) ?> in footer.phtml
I just downloaded the file and it is still without color package. Will there be a color package for this theme? It would be awesome. I need it in dark pink/purple color. A few months ago you guys said it would be available in different colors. Is this still correct?
Any help would be appreciated.
Yes it’s correct but additional colors will be available after we will finish upgrading themes.
I managed to sort the category problem out now, thanks!
I have a tiny problem, when you click on a category that has a product within it i get an error :
Warning: Division by zero in /blah/blah/public_html/shop/app/design/frontend/default/f001/template/catalog/product/list.phtml on line 93
Its only when there is a product within the category, when there is no products within the category, its fine.
Any help?
Hello Graig, what is your magento version? This error is caused by missing number of default collumns. You can fix it by editing /blah/blah/public_html/shop/app/design/frontend/default/f001/template/catalog/product/list.phtml
$_columnCount = $this->getColumnCount(); to $_columnCount = 3;
Hi,
first of all, I’m sorry for my english bad.
We have a problem with cart. How do we do to delete a product from the cart?
On the top, We have the possibility to delete from the cart every product, but it’s doesn’t work.
In checkout we don’t see the ceckbox for to delete the products. The product is deletable only when we updeted to 0 product
Thanks
Hello Eraldo, there are 2 missing icons in last package. We will update theme soon.
We have successfully implemented Store Switcher in top navigation main drop down menu. (used in Magento 1.4 Absolute theme).
Step by step details can be found here: http://www.tajmac.net/portal/knowledgebase/4/Add-Store-Switcher-to-your-main-menu-in-Magento-14-Absolute-Theme.html
Very simple procedure.
Your feed back on post is appreciated.
Regards
J. Sootwala
TAJMAC IT Solutions (Tajmac.net)
First of all like every body else said allready, great theme. Absolutely love it, do have a question though. At my website I can’t get my product page, so not the products page, to look like your demostore looks. I would be very please if you can get this fixed for me. Also when do the addition colors come out.
Thanks allready
Hello Rick, what problem do you have with products page? Additional colors are delayed because of recent magento upgrade. Probably in 4-5 weeks we will have time to work this task also.
hallo TemplatesMaster,
the problem is that my product page does not look like the one on your demostore. This is one of my products, http://www.multimedia-center.nl/default/systeem-samenstellen/mediacenter-behuizing-lk-160-bundle.html, and I would like to Product’s Attributes not in an tab but below the product image. Also the price and others do not display on the right side of the image. Thanks for the quick reply
Rick, you are using Easytabs extension that was not upgraded yet to 1.4. That is the reason why products page is broken.
The theme is terrific in 1.4!
However, I’m wondering how I can get the html tags out of the product description and get linebreaks in the description instead. Editing the product to remove the html and just have hard enters doesn’t work. It still doesn’t put line breaks in the frontend. Backend looks formatted fine though.
Hi Template Master,
Love the theme. I do have one issue in that the header area is all blue, the same colour as the surrounds. I’ve tried to install the theme via Magento Connect and installing manually from the zip file from your website. Any ideas, missing images perhaps?
Hello, Jeff please contact us if you still have this problem. We tested MAgento connect version and it has all files.
Love the theme!!!!
One problem I am having is the attributes titles are not showing showing up for those attributes that diplay on the product page
Thanks
Ron
How can i change the right site, that the cart is always on the Top?
Hi,
I really like this theme. I installed it, everything seems fine. It was very well explained, I just have one issue about top menu and css.. I feel total look is messed up because of either menu or css file.
Can you help me..
Really appreciate your help.
Thanks
Forgot to mention URL http://doctorsviewsonneuropathy.com/index.php/
Its hosted by 1and1 and running magento 1.4
Anyone else have problems with IE7 and IE8 “Add to cart” buttons? The cursor over them is the “I” cursor and depending on your resolution, the buttons are fragmented in two pieces.
I tried to install this theme,but the top menu is not showing,what can I do ?
Silverboy, you should create at least one child category.