How To Use The Blue Skin In Magento?

If you don’t know what Magento is, then simply it’s an open source project developed by Varien which makes it easy for people to create an E-commerce shop.

Anyway…………………

The whole concept of Themes and Skins can be confusing at first, especially when trying to set them up. Magento recently released a new skin called “Blue Skin“, now the name says it all, but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to make it appear in the admin at first, so you could use it. I figured it out after a little while of playing Here’s a quick how to:Blue skin is as it’s aptly named, a skin, it’s a variant of the default theme so you won’t see it in the themes admin, instead you must go to:

System >> Configuration >> General >> Design (Either set this as default or select a specific store).

You will then see the option for “Themes”, in this section are the following fields:

Templates, Skin (Images/CSS), Layout, Default.

Enter the word “blue” in all of these fields and then save, you will then have the blue skin for your fontend.

Note: If you have multiple stores and want this design by default or for all stores you can enter the details in “default config”, however if you only want to use it on one store then use the drop down on the top left to select the store, once loaded enters the details for that store.

I’m currently writing an article about PrestaShop Vs Magento which should be ready soon if anyone cares to sleep, I mean read :-p