Perfect White v1 Magento theme installation guide

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Initial installation

1. Copy files from the package theme/ dir to your Magento Directory (PSD/ dir in the package holds PSD source files).

2. Navigate to Backend->System->Configuration->Design->Package Tab-> Current Package Name Field and set this field to default value

3. Navigate to Backend->System->Configuration->Design->Themes Tab and set all fields to perfect_white value.

4. Navigate to Backend->System->Configuration->Content Management Tab and set "Enable WYSIWYG Editor" to Disable by Default value.

Now do the following actions from the admin side:

Categories

Create 2 categories as subcategories to your theme default category. They must be inactive to be hidden in the main navigation. These categories will be for "Home page products" and "Popular products". Remember the IDs of these categories. See the image below.

Once categories are created it is good to add several products to them.

Create Static Block home_page_header_block

Go to CMS->Static Block to add new static blocks.

Block Title*	home_page_header_block
Identifier*	home_page_header_block
Store View*	Select correct store view
Status	Enabled*
Content * (Click to Hide Editor first)	<div class="slider-wrap"> <div id="slider-content" class="slider-wrap"><img src="/perfect/home_banner.jpg" alt="" width="988" height="337" /> <img src="/perfect/home_banner_2.jpg" alt="" width="988" height="337" /> <img src="/perfect/home_banner_3.jpg" alt="" width="988" height="337" /></div> </div>

Create Static Block head_phone_block

Go to CMS->Static Block to add new static blocks.

Block Title*	head_phone_block
Identifier*	head_phone_block
Store View*	Select correct store view
Status	Enabled*
Content * (Click to Hide Editor first)	<ul class="head_contacts_block"> <li><span class="phone">+1 253.243.2001</span></li> <li><a class="mail" href="mailto:info@yourstore.com">info@yourstore.com</a></li> <li><a href="#">Free Shipping</a></li> <li class="last"><a href="#">Need help?</a></li> </ul>

Create Static Block right_info_block

Go to CMS->Static Block to add new static blocks.

Do not forget to replace "PopularProductsCategoryID" with actual category ID.

Block Title*	right_info_block
Identifier*	right_info_block
Store View*	Select correct store view
Status	Enabled*
Content * (Click to Hide Editor first)

Create Static Block left_info_block

Go to CMS->Static Block to add new static blocks.

Do not forget to replace "PopularProductsCategoryID" with actual category ID.

Block Title*	left_info_block
Identifier*	left_info_block
Store View*	Select correct store view
Status	Enabled*
Content * (Click to Hide Editor first)

Edit home page

Go to CMS->Pages and Edit/Add home page

Page Title*	home
URL Key	home
Store View	Select correct store view
Status	Enabled*
Content * (Click to Hide Editor first) Do not forget to replace "HomeProductsCategoryID" with the ID of one of the created categories
Layout	2columns-right*
Layout Update XML

 

Custom Menu extension

If you need our custom menu layout, please load and install the extension Custom Magento menu extansion

Shipping price calculator and One page checkout

Included in the package please check magento backend system->configuration->web-and-people section.
If you get 404 error when you try to access any extension, please relogin to the backend.

Congratulations! Your magento theme is ready!

We also recommend adding lightbox extension to your Magento

 

HTML & CSS Structure

This theme is built according to Magento standards, you might see the general structure of Magento themes.
HTML structure were kept as default in Magento. Changed template phtml files are located at:

YourMagentoDir/app/design/frontend/default/perfect_white/template

 

Theme also includes layout configuration xml files here:

YourMagentoDir/app/design/frontend/default/perfect_white/layout

 

If you would like to edit the color, font, or style of any elements in one of these columns, you would edit this css file:

YourMagentoDir/skin/frontend/default/perfect_white/css/skin.css

 

Files Structure

Theme uses standard css files plus custom skin.css which contains all custom styles.

Main directories: php, phtml, xml files

app/

 

banners and other media

media/

 

javascripts, css, images used by css

skin/

 

JavaScript

This theme imports three Javascript files.

1. jQuery
2. Cycle-Fade effects plugin
3. noconfilct js file

1. jQuery is a Javascript library that greatly reduces the amount of code that you must write.
2. Most of the animation in this site is carried out from the Cycle-Fade effects plugin. Here is the code which implements fading banner on the home page.
   
   

   slider = jQuery('#slider-content');
   slider.before('<div id="stripNav0" class="stripNav">').cycle({
     fx: 'fade', 
     timeout: 4000, 
     speed: 1000, 
     next: '.stripNavL', 
     prev: '.stripNavR', 
     pager: '#stripNav0'});
   

 

PSD Files

please contact us in order to get the source files

 

Sources and Credits

None of the media or code files require additional license to use.

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