nopCommerce Tips: Review of Nop-Templates Jewelry Template

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 08:29 Written by Carole Bennett Wednesday, 13 February 2013 12:00

The lovely people over at Nop-Templates have been kind enough to let me have access to their new Jewelry Template for nopCommerce; today I’ll put it through its paces, and see if it lives up to the quality of the other templates they’ve released for nopCommerce.

I’ll be reviewing the Jewelry template by Nop-Templates using the latest version of nopCommerce at this time, 2.81.  Upon opening the .zip file I’ve downloaded, I see that theme versions are also available for 2.65 and 2.7 – brilliant!

I’m leveraging Visual Studio 2012 and MSSQL 2012, downloaded from the Microsoft site as a part of my Website Spark membership. I’ve followed the usual steps to set up a new instance of nopCommerce on my local server, and copied the Jewelry theme files into the Presentation/Nop.Web folder.

How to Create a WordPress Theme – Part 3

Last Updated on Friday, 1 February 2013 06:54 Written by TJ Marsh Tuesday, 5 February 2013 12:00

Before reading this article, make sure to check out part 1 and part 2! Now that we’ve got our design and a copy of WordPress ready to go, it’s time to open up the “default” theme, clean things out a bit, and start making our new theme. Let’s get started:

1. First, we open up header.php. You should see something that looks very much like this:

How to Create a WordPress Theme – Part 2

Last Updated on Friday, 1 February 2013 06:53 Written by TJ Marsh Monday, 4 February 2013 12:00

Before reading this article, make sure to check out part 1! Now, while there are some out there who know all the WordPress template tags off the top of their head (I’m not quite there yet), for the rest of us it helps to have a place to start. In a best case scenario, you just pull out your already prepared WordPress theme, loaded with all the features you like to use, and simply replace the existing style sheet with your own. But for the sake of this tutorial, we’re going to work with the good old default WordPress theme (Kubrick).

How to Create a WordPress Theme – Part 1

Last Updated on Friday, 1 February 2013 06:52 Written by TJ Marsh Sunday, 3 February 2013 12:00

Prior to diving into the WordPress code, we have a few things to make sure we have all straightened out and ready to go. For this tutorial, so as not to pick on anyone else, I’ll be using my own blog as an example.

Here’s what we need:

nopCommerce Tips: Matching Your Mobile Theme with Your Site Theme

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:30 Written by Carole Bennett Monday, 24 September 2012 12:00

nopCommerce introduced native mobile support with the advent of version 2.4; with an ever-increasing percentage of mobile users, it’s a great way to optimize your customer base. nopCommerce ships with one mobile skin; however, if you’ve customized the theme for your site, you may wish to update the mobile theme to maintain consistent branding. Today, we’ll cover how to do so.

The nopCommerce mobile theme leverages the  jQueryUI theme, making it a flexible and extensible UI, supported by the majority of modern mobile devices. The folks at jQueryUI have created 24 “standard” UI themes, and also offer the awesome ThemeRoller online application that will allow you to create a custom theme using your own color selections.

You may feel the need to work with your designer on this, but it’s really very easy. If you’ve already got a list of your theme colors in hex (#xxxxxx format), go ahead and open up ThemeRoller and get started.