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Learning Magento Theme Development

You're reading from   Learning Magento Theme Development Create visually stunning and responsive themes to customize the appearance of your Magento store

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783280612
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Carter Richard Carter
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Preface 1. Introduction to Magento and Magento Themes FREE CHAPTER 2. Magento Theming Basics 3. Magento Templates 4. Magento Layout 5. Social Media and Magento 6. Advanced Magento Theming 7. Magento Theming for Mobile and Tablet Devices 8. Magento E-mail Templates Index

Including social share buttons in your product pages


Particularly if you are selling to consumers rather than other businesses, you can make use of social share buttons in your product pages to help customers share the products they love with their friends on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. One of the most convenient ways to do this is to use a third-party service such as AddThis, which also allows you to track your most shared content. This is useful to learn which products are your most-shared products within your store!

Styling the product page a little further

Before you begin to integrate the share buttons, you can style your product page to provide a little more layout and distinction between the blocks of content. Open your theme's styles.css file and append the following CSS (located at /skin/frontend/default/m18/css/) to provide a column for the product image and a column for the introductory content of the product:

.product-img-box, .product-shop {
float: left;
margin...
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