Chapter 4. Magento Layout
You have now looked at the changes you can make to your Magento theme using CSS and template changes. This chapter introduces Magento's layout language, which can be used to change the appearance and order of blocks within your Magento theme and covers the following:
- Adding a
local.xmlfile to your theme - Changing the default page template
- Changing a page's layout via CMS
- Adding a static block to a page using the Magento layout
- Changing the ordering of blocks in Magento's sidebar
- Removing unnecessary blocks from Magento's sidebar
- Adding a new products block to your store's home page
