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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

Adding mobile icons for Windows and Apple devices


With the increasing popularity of smartphones, it's not enough to just provide a favorites icon any more; these don't work as effectively on mobile devices, but you can provide alternate icons for use on Apple, Android, and Windows devices.

Adding an Apple home icon to your Magento store

You can specify the Apple icon that will be used when customers save your store to their device's home screen with the addition of elements to your store's <head> element.

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Android devices will also make use of these icons as long as the rel value in the link elements that reference the icons are set to rel=apple-touch-icon or rel=apple-touch-icon-precomposed.

Copy the head.phtml file under /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/page/html/ to /app/design/frontend/default/m18/template/page/html/. Open your theme's head.phtml file and insert the following code at the bottom of the file to cater for the variety of sizes Apple devices can use:

<link...
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