Best Performing Magento E-Commerce Sites You’ll Love to Explore
As an avid Magento fan, I’ve come across a large number of websites which have leveraged the best potential of this absolutely stunning e-commerce solution. I won’t sound wrong in saying that the current e-commerce industry has been extremely influenced by the emergence of Magento. Both, Magento Enterprise and Community websites have been successful in delivering excellent user experience to a global customer base. In this post, I’ve listed out some of the best e-commerce websites built on Magento. So, let’s get to know about these sites in a better way. 1. Chopard This is a Magento Enterprise-based e-commerce store offering a wide range of products such as: watches, jewellery and other accessories. The fully responsive design of this Magento e-commerce store makes it a good fit for a wide range of mobile devices with different screen sizes and resolutions. 2. Vashi Vashi is yet another brilliant example of Magento Enterprise-based e-commerce store. Serving as your online diamond expert, Vashi allows you to choose from a wide collection of engagement rings, wedding rings and other stunning jewelery. This e-store derives its name from a famous TV Diamond expert named Vashi who’s been advising the celebrities on the red carpet. He has also featured on a majority of television shows talking about diamond jewelery. 3. Pepe Jeans The very popular apparel brand named Pepe Jeans has its official website designed using the Magento Enterprise edition. Backed by a rich combination of black and white colors, the official website of Pepe Jeans is fully-responsive, which means it looks great and functions excellently on all mobile devices and other hand-held gadgets. 4. Atlantic Supplements A Magento Community edition-based e-store, Atlantic Supplements is an e-store offering excellent supplements for people hailing from different age groups. Atlantic Supplements offer you with only the most trusted brands at UK’s lowest prices. As a fully-responsive Magento e-store, Atlantic Supplements can easily fit the screens of different mobile devices. 5. eLuxe eLuxe is also a Magento Enterprise-based e-store offering absolutely awesome Women’s Designer Clothing, Designer Handbags and Accessories. The e-store has been segregated into different sections viz: New Collections, Clothes, Beauty, Accessories, Promos and many more. 6. Winterson A Magento Community-based e-store, Winterson offers a rich collection of luxury pearl jewelery including pendants, bracelets, earrings, rings, necklaces and a lot more. A London-based company, Winterson comes with a rich heritage of pearls which have been a vital part of the company’s business since 50 years from now. Equipped with an in-built blog section, Winterson is a website worth visiting. 7. Escape Studios A fully-responsive, Magento Community edition based e-store, Escape Studios offers you a good collection of tutorials which allow you to dig deep into the world of visual effects, VFX and a lot more. You can choose to place an order for an online course by paying a marginal sum of cash. Irrespective of whether you’re an amateur or a professional, Escape Studios enables you to grab a better understanding of the graphics world. 8. Gant A Magento Enterprise edition based e-store, Gant offers an excellent collection of clothing and apparels for men and women. The site is fully-responsive and loaded with eye-catchy photographs of real people. Whether you’re looking for that perfect sweater or want to get a good nylon hoodie for yourself, Gant is the e-store for you. 9. Matthew Williamson Built using Magento Enterprise edition, Matthew Williamson is the official e-store featuring the enticing collection by Matthew Williamson- a popular fashion designer holding a BA degree in Fashion Design and Printed Textiles. The online shop offers different varieties of dresses, tops, bags, knitwear,...
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Latest Version: 3.00 Updated on: 2015/05/24 Presenting to you the Watercolor theme, this time, I created a theme with different design style. Colorful as it is, this theme uses a lot of free style and smudging techniques, thus giving you the watercolor painting look that is so different from other themes you have seen. Hope you’ll like my latest creation 🙂 Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now! By using this theme for FREE, you agree to accept the external links. Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage. PSD files included for both the main and the sub themes. Ad-Free PackageRemoving the credit links will make the theme to not function properly. Unencrypted main and sub theme files can be purchased at $20. Theme CustomizationDo you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog's topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please visit the theme customization service page. The following is an example of a custom design of the Watercolor theme. Main Features – User-friendly Options page – Drop-Down Menu – Automatic Thumbnails – Different design for sticky post feature – Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – W3C XHTML and CSS compliant – SEO ready – Gravatar enable Translation Help Needed This is my first theme that allows localization. If you wish to translate this theme into your own language, you can do so with the use of the Poedit program. To find out how this works, please refer to this comprehensive guide. When you have completed the localization, kindly send me the translated files so I can share your work (with your credit) with other users. Automatic Thumbnails Please refer to this page for the details of how the automatic thumbnails work. Drop-down Menu The Watercolor theme has a multi-level drop-down menu that is using the latest function in WP 3.0. There are two ways to create the drop-down menu. 1) When you create hierarchical pages, the drop-down menu will show up automatically in the header navigation. 2) You can manually define the header links using the custom menu. To do it, first, click on the “Menus” link found under the “Appearance” tab in WP admin. Then follow the instruction on the page to add your custom menu. This feature only works with WP 3+. Plugin Watercolor theme uses two plugins, FlickrRSS and FCG. 1) FlickRSS plugin There is a photo gallery where you can display up to 5 photos in the footer. For instruction on how to install the plugin, please refer to FlickrRSS. If you don’t install this plugin, it will not cause error to the theme. Instead, you will only see blank photo frame. 2) Featured Content Gallery Plugin There is a featured content section below the header link. This feature is built in using the Featured Content Gallery (FCG) plugin. Please download the latest version and follow the instruction found in “Readme.txt” to do the setup. If you do not want to show this feature, just don’t install the plugin. Blog Title and Description The demo is showing a special font as below: By default, after you install the theme, the blog title and description are showing the Arial font. You can change the font style by following this instruction: Part 1: Modifying Font Style – Download this PSD zip file (also included the font that I use) – Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop/ImageReady/Gimp/PaintShop program – Change the title and description using your desired font (you are...
Read MoreWatercolor (Eco)
Latest Version: 3.00 Updated on: 2015/06/25 The Eco style of the Watercolor theme was originally created for a nature related site. I made it a point to update my existing themes to ver. 3+ and give upgrade priority to the sub themes that are pending release. With ver. 3 of this theme, you get everything that is available in ver. 2 (several features in options page) as well as a custom header menu feature. Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now! By using this theme for FREE, you agree to accept the external links. To activate the Eco style of the Watercolor theme, follow 2 simple steps below: Step 1 Go to the theme Options page in WP admin => Appearance => Watercolor Step 2 Under “Theme Style”, select “eco.css” and save the page. Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage. PSD files included for both the main and the sub themes. Ad-Free PackageRemoving the credit links will make the theme to not function properly. Unencrypted main and sub theme files can be purchased at $20. Theme CustomizationDo you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog's topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please visit the theme customization service page. The following is an example of a custom design of the Watercolor theme. Main Features – User-friendly Options page – Custom header menu – Automatic Thumbnails – Different design for sticky post feature – Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – W3C XHTML and CSS compliant – SEO ready – Gravatar enable Translation Help Needed This is my first theme that allows localization. If you wish to translate this theme into your own language, you can do so with the use of the Poedit program. To find out how this works, please refer to this comprehensive guide. When you have completed the localization, kindly send me the translated files so I can share your work (with your credit) with other users. Automatic Thumbnails Please refer to this page for the details of how the automatic thumbnails work. Drop-down Menu The Watercolor theme has a multi-level drop-down menu that is using the latest function in WP 3.0. There are two ways to create the drop-down menu. 1) When you create hierarchical pages, the drop-down menu will show up automatically in the header navigation. 2) You can manually define the header links using the custom menu. To do it, first, click on the “Menus” link found under the “Appearance” tab in WP admin. Then follow the instruction on the page to add your custom menu. This feature only works with WP 3+. Plugin There is a featured content section below the header menu. This feature is built in using the Featured Content Gallery (FCG) plugin. Please download the latest version and follow the instruction found in “Readme.txt” to do the setup. If you do not want to show this feature, just don’t install the plugin. Blog Title and Description The demo is showing a special font as below: By default, after you install the theme, the blog title and description are showing the Arial font. You can change the font style by following this instruction: Part 1: Modifying Font Style – Download this PSD zip file (also include the font that I use) – Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop/ImageReady/Gimp/PaintShop program – Change the title and description using your desired font (you are free to modify the header image if you want) – Save the...
Read MoreCoffee Desk
Latest Version: 3.0 Updated on: 2015/05/31 Here it goes. The Coffee Desk, my newest theme that I am very proud of 😎 I should have released it last week but I got stuck in making the theme compatible with ALL major browsers. I have tried many ways in HTML and CSS but just couldn’t make it display well in major browsers. Finally, I am glad that I found the solutions using jQuery! This is the first theme I created 3 months after the “Simple Style” theme. Sorry to let you all wait for so long but I will my best to release at least 2 quality themes per month. Hope you like the Coffee Desk theme and visit this site regularly for more releases in future! Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now! By using this theme for FREE, you agree to accept the external links. Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage. PSD files included for both the main and the sub themes. Ad-Free PackageRemoving the credit links will make the theme to not function properly. Unencrypted main and sub theme files can be purchased at $20. Theme CustomizationDo you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog's topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please visit the theme customization service page. The following is an example of a custom design of the Coffee Desk theme. Main Features – Nice background. Best viewed with a resolution of 1280px – Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – W3C XHTML and CSS compliant – Gravatar enable Things to take note Header Links 1) Limit the number of the header links to 4 only. If you display more than 4 links, the “paper note” will overlap with the “coffee cup”. 2) Control the length of the links to within 2 lines. Blog Title Currently, the blog title is using the Arial font. You can change the font style by following this instruction: – Open “header.php” – Remove this code <div id=”blogtitle”><a href=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></div> – Save the file and upload to your server – Open “images/bg_header.jpg” in image editing software – Add your desired font and content to the image – Save the image and upload to your server Blog Description If you don’t want to display the blog description, simply remove this line from “header.php”: <div id=”subtitle”><?php bloginfo(‘description’);?></div> Post Title Coffee Desk theme allows up to 2 lines for the post title without distorting the design. Bottom of the Content Area The white space size below the content area is not a constant. Sometimes you’ll see a big gap, sometimes the gap is small and fits well. This is a design constraint and is not an error. User Showcase The followings are a few examples of nice modification of this theme from other users. You can view all the nice design in the forum theme showcase. View my other themes Change log 2009-02-24 v1.00 – Release 2009-03-05 v1.01 – Fixed comment display problem in IE. 2009-04-21 v1.02 – Modified the javascript to fix the height of dynamic content. 2009-05-11 v1.03 – Moved Javascript to a .js file. Fixed Tag Cloud widget display problem. 2009-07-14 – Theme is compatible with WP 2.8 2011-03-31 v3.00 – New – Added drop-down menu, ad-widget, Options page, advanced automatic thumbnails, custom style, custom menu (works on WP 3+ onwards) and enabled localization...
Read MoreCoffee Desk (Cookbook)
Latest Version: 3.00 Updated on: 2015/05/31 I have been asked by a few of my theme users to create a theme for food lovers. The Coffee Desk theme is just ideal to turn into a cookbook. So jot down the recipe you found on TV and make a perfect meal of your own. Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now! By using this theme for FREE, you agree to accept the external links. To activate the Cookbook style of the Coffee Desk theme, follow 2 simple steps below: Step 1 Go to the theme Options page in WP admin => Appearance => Coffee Desk Step 2 Under “Theme Style”, select “cookbook.css” and save the page. Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage. PSD files included for both the main and the sub themes. Ad-Free PackageRemoving the credit links will make the theme to not function properly. Unencrypted main and sub theme files can be purchased at $20. Theme CustomizationDo you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog's topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please visit the theme customization service page. The following is an example of a custom design of the Coffee Desk theme. Main Features – User-friendly Options page – Custom menu – Automatic Thumbnails – Different design for sticky post feature – Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – W3C XHTML and CSS compliant – SEO ready – Gravatar enable Translation Help Needed If you wish to translate this theme into your own language, you can do so with the use of the Poedit program. To find out how this works, please refer to this comprehensive guide. When you have completed the localization, kindly send me the translated files so I can share your work (with your credit) with other users. Automatic Thumbnails Please refer to this page for the details of how the automatic thumbnails work. Drop-down Menu The Coffee Desk theme has a multi-level drop-down menu that is using the latest function in WP 3.0. There are two ways to create the drop-down menu. 1) When you create hierarchical pages, the drop-down menu will show up automatically in the header navigation. 2) You can manually define the header links using the custom menu. To do it, first, click on the “Menus” link found under the “Appearance” tab in WP admin. Then follow the instruction on the page to add your custom menu. This feature only works with WP 3+. Blog Title and Description The demo is showing a special font as below: By default, after you install the theme, the blog title and description are showing the Time News Roman font. You can change the font style by following this instruction: Part 1: Modifying Font Style – Download this PSD zip file (also include the font that I use) – Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop/ImageReady/Gimp/PaintShop program – Change the title and description using your desired font (you are free to modify the header image if you want) – Save the image using this name: bg_header.jpg – Upload the image to your server in the “/styles/cookbook/” folder Part 2: Activating the Style – Login to your WP admin – Go to the options page of the Coffee Desk theme under “Appearance -> Coffee Desk” – Find “Theme Style” under “Layout Setting” – In the pull-down menu, select “cookbook.css” – Save the setting and go to your site to see the changes. Ad Widget An ad widget can be...
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