Magento CMS Manage Pages

Now that you have these folder in your Magento site we have to go through the admin to tell the site to use the new theme. First log in to your admin and go to the CMS tab and them manage pages.

Custom Design Pages

Inside there you will have to change every pages custom design to your new theme name you installed.

System Configure Design

Next you will have to go to the System tab and then Configure. Inside the Configuration section go under Design and change all of the relevant fields to your new theme name. Make sure you save everything and your theme should be up and ready to go.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

Lets do the easy toggles first

Top To Bottom

I am doing this for the comments section of most WordPress sites. First you have to give the identify what the outer most container is of your comments section. Mine is id comments. So just to the top of my comments section I need to create a button but you don’t have to use a button it is just the easiest to explain. So you should have something that looks like this.

<button id="comments_bottom">This Is A Toggle Button</button>
<div id="comment">
//Your Comment Code
</div>

You will notice that I gave the button a id that is so that jQuery can find it. Next you have to create your js file. I would name it something like toggle.js. It should look like this depending on which way you want your content to toggle.

//Top To Bottom
$(document).ready(function() {
	$("#comment").hide();
	$("#comments_button").click(function() {
		$("#comment").animate({height: "toggle"}, 1000);
	});
});
//Left To Right Or Right To Left
//In order to do either you must float your #comment 
//the direction you want your content to come from!
$(document).ready(function() {
	$("#comment").hide();
	$("#comments_button").click(function() {
		$("#comment").animate({width: "toggle"}, 1000);
	});
});
//Upper Left To Lower Right Or Upper Right To Lower Left
//These ones you also have to float from the direction 
//they are coming from!
$(document).ready(function() {
	$("#comment").hide();
	$("#comments_button").click(function() {
		$("#comment").animate({width: "toggle", 
                    height: "toggle"}, 1000);
	});
});

Now all you have to do is call your jQuery script and a jQuery library and your toggle up to down should work. I use the Google library because of how quick it is. You can find more info about the Google library here jQuery Library

Other Ways To Toggle

There are a few other ways to do a toggle like from bottom to top and bottom corners to top corners. There is also some other things that you can do with toggle like fading. jQuery has a lot of really easy and light things that you can do to your site to make it just that much better. If I were you I would take a look at their site jQuery.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

What is it that you are looking for in your site? What would you like your site to do? How often are you planning on updating your site? Would you like to have the ability to change your site? Well these are some of the questions that we ask a client that comes to us wanting a site. Most people don’t understand that their is much more to a site then just having a idea of “I need a site” or “my company needs a site.” With these questions that I have asked it starts me thinking would it be better for my client to have a CMS or not. A CMS is a Content Management System it is used to give the buyer the ability to make small changes to the site pages in case they may need to change some text or something little. Once I find out that my client may need a CMS then comes the point of giving the client a CMS that will work with their needs. For instance if a client came to me and said that they would like a site that has a blog area that they could update daily. The first thing that comes to my mind is WordPress. Let alone WordPress is very user friendly it has so many capabilities and plugins that are free. If my client came to me and said that they would like a site that they would only have to change about every 6 months or more. I would probably look at either building the site with static information or using a smaller CMS. My personal preference would be Frog CMS. It is easy to learn and is easy to customize because of its small size. Their are a lot of different opinions on what is the best CMS. I don’t really think their is a “best” I feel that it really depends on the situation and the developers preference. A short list of some of the free CMS’s out their:

Most Known

• WordPress
• Drupal
• Joomla

Not So Known

• Frog CMS
• Media Wiki
• Typo3 CMS
• Moodle
• Dolphin
• Pligg CMS
• Movable Type
• Xoops
• Geeklog
• e107
• Mambo
• Nucleus CMS

My Opinion

This is just a few of the vast amount of CMS’s out their that you can choose from. Note that all of these are free open source CMS’s. I have mt own opinion about these CMS’s and I believe even though Drupal and Joomla are two of the biggest CMS’s they are two of the most complicated. I personally would stick with WordPress for blog sites and for smaller sites I would go with Frog CMS but this is my personal opinion. I would say defiantly try out multiple CMS’s to see what you build a preference to. If you have tried out any of the CMS’s on the list or any that are not on the list please feel free to leave a comment about them.

Web Design And Development

If you by change need web design or web development done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are small but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

One of the aspects that I am going to have this do is make it so that you can register possible client and actual clients. With the actual clients this will allow you to register client and keep track of money that has been received from them and money that is still in the waiting. I felt that something that would be useful is a emailing system that sends you a email that a client needs to make a payment and it also sends a email to the client so that they know.

Another aspect that I am going to have this do is calculate the taxes on money received. Also a place for you to input expenses. I have a lot to do with this and would love input on the subject I would like to have this out to the public by this summer. I am at first building this to my needs and then building it to everyone’s needs. If you would like to send me any helpful info you can send it to accounting[at]shanestrong.com or you can write a comment about it.

In order for me to fund this project I need some help. Donations would be great you can send the via paypal to shanestrong05[at]gmail.com. Or if you have any web design or web development work you can contact Chosen Development.

I am currently looking for a full time job in the web design industry. Preferably somewhere in the Lansing Area. I consider myself highly skilled in XHTML, CSS, and WordPress other skills are MySQL, PHP, Java, VB, and currently learning ASP.net and ASP. If possible I would like to become a Lansing Web Developer somewhere in the Lansing Area. I feel that the Lansing Web Industry is going up even though it is a little slow right now.

Thanks You For Your Help

Working for an advertising agency we see and here about almost everything. I am a co-owner of Chosen Development, we do everything from websites down to walking dogs. We don’t do just Logo Designs or consider our selves to being a Logo Design Company. Some of the logos that we have created were Church Logo Designs and Business Logos. Most of the people who come to our company want a logo designed for something like $20 and yes we could do that but people really need to notice that if you spend $20 on a Logo Design you are going to get $20 worth of work.

What Logo Designs Should Consist Of

Alright if you look at some of the most popular Logo Designs some of these designs might of went for hundreds of thousands of dollars. For instance if you take some of the Sport Logo Designs like Nike for instance I don’t know off hand how much they paid for there Logo but everyone knows what it is. I can definitely tell you that it wasn’t a $20 Logo Design. Most of the really popular companies might have paid up to a couple million dollars for a Logo Design. There are a few companies out there that have paid little to nothing for their Logo. For instance one of the biggest companies in the world Google not that many people know Google’s Logo but it sucks you should look it up. For a Logo Design for a small company it is a good thing to pay for something that will be worth it. For a price perspective I would have to say that a good Logo would be between $500 to $1500 and for a cheaper logo you could spend anywhere from free to $100.

Some Really Bad and I Hope Cheap Logo Designs

We took a look at some of the really bad Logos that have been designed developed. Some of these might not be appropriate for kids but that is who most of these are focused towards.

Logos found by Chosen Development – Graphic Website Logo Design.

Here is some of the Logos that I have found that are bad.
Well to start one of the newest the Pepsi Logo.
New Logo –
Old Logo –
I don’t know about you but the new logo is horrible.

Here are some other bad Logo’s.




There are quite a few Logos out there that have probably been done for either free or by somebody that has no clue what they are doing. One of our biggest mottoes here at Chosen Development is let the professionals do what they are good at. Basically it like a plumber you aren’t going to call them and say what they should do because you know that they know that they know what they are doing. So with that Logo Design is something that every business needs but would you like to pay a little and get something like these or would you rather pay a little more and get something worth your money and time.

1. Well as most of you might know the first step to installing is getting the files from the WordPress.org web site.  You can find the download for WordPress 2.7 right on the home page.

2. The next step is to create a database on your server so that WordPress has a place to store the user names and passwords.  I am expecting everyone knows how to do this since it is your server.

3. After creating the database now you have to go into your site using ftp and add all the files.  I personally would put the .zip file on the server and then unzip it.  After you unzip the file you will find that it puts everything into a wordpress folder and if you want you main domain or sub domain to point right to wordpress you need to bring the files out of the wordpress folder and get rid of the wordpress folder.

4. So now you have all of the files unzipped on your server and still nothing is going to work.  If you ftp into the server you will fine a file called wp-config-sample.php.  You need to rename that file just wp-config.php.  Then open the file and you will find a area for your database information.  It should look something like this putyourdbnamehere – this is your database name, usernamehere – this is your database username, yourpasswordhere – also your database password, and then if need you can change the host.  Save that and make sure it is called wp-config.php.

5. Once this is done all of the hard stuff is over all you have to do now is go to the domain or subdomain and you will get this easy to understand walk-through for the rest of the process.  This will consist of creating a user, password, and wordpress will write the info to the database automatically.

Well there you go all it took was 5 easy steps and you were done and have wordpress.  Now if you are new to wordpress it might seem really wierd when you go to the wp-admin section but I definatly sure that after a little time you will understand what you are doing and if you need help you can either comment here, email me, or Google information.  I am a freelancer part time so if you don’t want to go through the hassle of the process or even building a wordpress site you can contact me and I can give you a quote on a price for what you need.  I can promise you that I can give you a great deal on a site and the turnover will be fast.  Well I hope you all have fun and remember if you need anything I am right here, so leave me a comment or email me.

Shane Strong
Chosen Development

The business has a very broad focus on many different plains of advertising. The top focus right now for Chosen Development is web design. I myself am part of the company and have the position of front and back end web developer. We here at Chosen can do SEO, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, XML, and Ruby on Rails. If you would like to look at some of our work you can go to the Chosen website, JoeSak, or Clay McIlrath. Most of our sites are powered by wordpress. We have created a few different wordpress blog theme, we do wordpress seo, can give wordpress help, and we can make new wordpress blog sites. Us here at Chosen have all came from close to nothing and are looking to take the advertising industry by storm.

Shane Strong
Chosen Development